11-letter words containing h, u
- churchwomen — Plural form of churchwoman.
- churchyards — Plural form of churchyard.
- churn drill — a portable drill rig using a bit fashioned on a massive steel cylinder that is alternately lifted and dropped to drill a hole in earth and rock.
- chyliferous — containing chyle
- chymiferous — containing chyme
- cladanthous — pleurocarpous.
- clean house — to clean and put a home in order
- closehauled — having the sails adjusted for heading as nearly as possible into the wind
- clubmanship — the status of belonging to an active club
- 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 house — a building in which a coach is kept
- coach-built — (of a vehicle) having specially built bodywork
- coauthoring — Present participle of coauthor.
- cochlearium — In Ancient Rome, a small spoon with a long tapering handle.
- coconut shy — a fairground stall in which balls are thrown to knock coconuts off stands
- coffee hour — an informal gathering of people at which coffee and refreshments are served.
- coffeehouse — an establishment that sells coffee and usually other refreshments and that commonly serves as an informal club for its regular customers
- column inch — a unit of measurement for advertising space, one inch deep and one column wide
- conchylious — Archaic form of conchylaceous.
- convex hull — the smallest convex set containing a given set; the intersection of all convex sets that contain a given set.
- cool hunter — a person who is employed to identify future trends, esp in fashion or the media
- copublisher — a publisher that publishes a work in conjunction with another publisher
- cornhuskers — Plural form of cornhusker.
- cornhusking — the removal of the husk from corn
- cotton bush — any of various downy chenopodiaceous shrubs, esp Kochia aphylla, which is used to feed livestock
- cottonmouth — water moccasin
- couch grass — a grass, Agropyron repens, with a yellowish-white creeping underground stem by which it spreads quickly: a troublesome weed
- couch-grass — any of various grasses, especially Agropyron repens, known chiefly as troublesome weeds and characterized by creeping rootstocks that spread rapidly.
- cough sweet — a lozenge to relieve a cough
- cough syrup — Cough syrup is a liquid medicine that you take when you have a cough.
- countermyth — a myth that conflicts with another myth
- countershot — a sequence of frames seen from the perspective of the subject of the previous shot
- county home — a county poorhouse.
- courthouses — Plural form of courthouse.
- cowpunchers — Plural form of cowpuncher.
- crack house — a house or flat where drugs are dealt and used
- crash truck — an emergency vehicle based at an airport.
- crazy house — an asylum for people with psychiatric disorders
- credit hour — A credit hour is a credit that a school or college awards to students who have completed a course of study.
- creophagous — flesh-eating or carnivorous
- cri du chat — cat's cry syndrome.
- cruise ship — A cruise ship is a large ship which takes people from place to place on a cruise holiday, and on which entertainment, food, and drink are provided.
- crunch time — the critical moment
- crunchiness — The state of being crunchy.
- crushworthy — (usually, of a, person) Suitable for a crush (infatuation): attractive.
- cued speech — a method of communication in which a speaker uses a system of manual cues to aid a lipreader by clarifying potentially ambiguous mouth movements with hand gestures.
- cuitlacoche — corn smut.
- cultishness — the quality of being cultish
- culver hole — a hole for receiving a timber.