11-letter words containing h, u, t, i
- chicken out — If someone chickens out of something they were intending to do, they decide not to do it because they are afraid.
- chilled out — relaxed
- chin cactus — any of various globular cacti of the genus Gymnocalycium, native to South America, having white or pinkish flowers and a chinlike protrusion below each cluster of spines.
- choukoutien — Wade-Giles. Zhoukoudian.
- chula vista — city in SW Calif.: suburb of San Diego: pop. 174,000
- clutch disk — The clutch disk or clutch plate is the rotating part of the clutch, to which the friction material is attached.
- clutch slip — Clutch slip is a faulty condition in which there is not enough friction in the clutch, so that engine speed rises without a corresponding increase in road speed.
- coach-built — (of a vehicle) having specially built bodywork
- coauthoring — Present participle of coauthor.
- credit hour — A credit hour is a credit that a school or college awards to students who have completed a course of study.
- cri du chat — cat's cry syndrome.
- crunch time — the critical moment
- cuitlacoche — corn smut.
- cultishness — the quality of being cultish
- curatorship — The rank or period of being a curator.
- curb weight — the weight of an automotive vehicle including fuel, coolant, and lubricants but excluding occupants and cargo.
- cushion cut — a variety of brilliant cut in which the girdle has the form of a square with rounded corners.
- cutlassfish — any of a family (Trichiuridae) of very long, thin percoid fishes with a wide mouth and sharp, pointed teeth, found near the surface in tropical seas
- dasht-i-lut — a desert plateau in central and E central Iran
- deauthorize — to give authority for; formally sanction (an act or proceeding): Congress authorized the new tax on tobacco.
- declutching — Present participle of declutch.
- delightfull — Archaic form of delightful.
- demi-hunter — a watch having a hinged case with a hole in the lid permitting the time to be seen even when the lid is closed.
- dichotomous — divided or dividing into two parts.
- dinotherium — any elephantlike mammal of the extinct genus Dinotherium, from the later Tertiary Period of Europe and Asia, having large, outwardly curving tusks.
- discotheque — a nightclub for dancing to live or recorded music and often featuring sophisticated sound systems, elaborate lighting, and other effects.
- dish it out — an open, relatively shallow container of pottery, glass, metal, wood, etc., used for various purposes, especially for holding or serving food.
- dispatchful — of or relating to dispatch, particularly in terms of haste
- distinguish — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
- do up right — to do carefully or thoroughly
- dongting hu — lake in Hunan province, SE China: c. 1,450 sq mi (3,755 sq km); during floods, over 4,000 sq mi (10,360 sq km)
- doublethink — the acceptance of two contradictory ideas or beliefs at the same time.
- doughtiness — steadfastly courageous and resolute; valiant.
- draughtiest — Superlative form of draughty.
- drouthiness — the state or condition of being thirsty or dry
- duotheistic — Of or relating to duotheism.
- dutch chair — a chair of c1700, derived from Dutch models, having curved uprights, a wide splat joined to the seat rail, and cabriole legs.
- eleutherian — giving or protecting freedom
- emphyteusis — a continual right in a property that belongs to another
- emphyteutic — pertaining to emphyteusis
- endothecium — (biology) The tissue found in the walls of anthers, and in moss capsules.
- endothelium — The tissue that forms a single layer of cells lining various organs and cavities of the body, especially the blood vessels, heart, and lymphatic vessels. It is formed from the embryonic mesoderm.
- enthusiasms — Plural form of enthusiasm.
- enthusiasts — A person who is highly interested in a particular activity or subject.
- epignathous — having a protruding upper jaw
- epithalamus — A part of the dorsal forebrain including the pineal gland and a region in the roof of the third ventricle of the brain.
- erythronium — A plant of a genus that includes dogtooth violet.
- eucharistic — (Theosophy) Pertaining to the Eucharist.
- euchromatin — the part of a chromosome that constitutes the major genes and does not stain strongly with basic dyes when the cell is not dividing
- euphemistic — Using or of the nature of a euphemism.