13-letter words containing h, u
- child cruelty — cruelty directed against children
- child custody — custody (def 4).
- child support — If a parent pays child support, they legally have to pay money to help provide things such as food and clothing for a child with whom they no longer live.
- child-custody — custody (def 4).
- chilean guava — a tropical shrub or small tree, Ugni molinae, of the myrtle family, having leathery, oval leaves, rose-pink flowers, and blue-black, edible fruit.
- chlorocruorin — an oxygen-carrying substance that is found in the tissues of members of the division Annelida that is green in colour when oxygen is not present
- chlorous acid — an unstable acid that is a strong oxidizing agent. Formula: HClO2
- chondromatous — a benign cartilaginous tumor or growth.
- choripetalous — polypetalous
- chrysanthemum — A chrysanthemum is a large garden flower with many long, thin petals.
- chrysocarpous — bearing golden-yellow fruit.
- chub mackerel — a small mackerel, Scomber japonicus, of Atlantic and Pacific seas and parts of the Indian Ocean.
- chuckleheaded — a stupid person; blockhead.
- chukka (boot) — an ankle-high bootlike shoe, usually with two or three pairs of eyelets
- chun doo hwan — born 1931, South Korean political leader: president 1980–88.
- church father — any of the writers on Christian doctrine of the pre-Scholastic period
- church of god — any of numerous Protestant denominations that stress personal conversion, sanctification, the imminent return of Jesus Christ, baptism by immersion, and, among some, speaking in tongues.
- church parade — a parade by servicemen or members of a uniformed organization for the purposes of attending religious services
- church school — A church school is a school which has a special relationship with a particular branch of the Christian church, and where there is strong emphasis on worship and the teaching of religion.
- church slavic — a liturgical language used in Eastern Orthodox churches in Slavic countries since the 11th or 12th century, representing a development of Old Church Slavonic through contact with the national Slavic languages.
- churchmanship — The craft or skill of being a churchman. (from 17th c.).
- churchpersons — Plural form of churchperson.
- churchwardens — Plural form of churchwarden.
- churn molding — a molding decorated with chevrons.
- chylophyllous — having fleshy leaves, as certain desert plants.
- cinchonaceous — relating to cinchona
- cinematheques — Plural form of cinematheque.
- claustrophobe — a person who suffers from claustrophobia.
- clearinghouse — If an organization acts as a clearinghouse, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
- click through — to navigate around (a website) using the links provided to move onto different pages
- click-through — the act of clicking on an advertisement or other link to go to another website, especially a retail site: The store gets lots of clickthroughs from social media.
- clistothecium — cleistothecium.
- clock puncher — a worker with a routine job in a factory or office, as one who punches a time clock at the beginning and end of a work shift.
- close-mouthed — Someone who is close-mouthed about something does not say much about it.
- clothes brush — a brush used to remove dust, fluff, dirt, etc from clothes
- cloud chamber — an apparatus for detecting high-energy particles by observing their tracks through a chamber containing a supersaturated vapour. Each particle ionizes molecules along its path and small droplets condense on them to produce a visible track
- cloud physics — the science of the physical properties and processes of clouds.
- club sandwich — a sandwich consisting of three or more slices of toast or bread with a filling
- club together — If people club together to do something, they all give money towards the cost of it.
- co-authorship — the state a coauthor
- coachbuilders — Plural form of coachbuilder.
- coachbuilding — the manufacture of bodies for cars, buses, and coaches
- coadjutorship — the state of being a coadjutor
- cochlear duct — a spiral tube enclosed in the bony canal of the cochlea.
- cocktail hour — the interval before the evening meal during which cocktails and other alcoholic beverages are often served.
- cold shoulder — If one person gives another the cold shoulder, they behave towards them in an unfriendly way, to show them that they do not care about them or that they want them to go away.
- cold-shoulder — to snub; show indifference to.
- colleagueship — workplace companionship
- colour scheme — In a room or house, the colour scheme is the way in which colours have been used to decorate it.
- column inches — the amount of coverage given to a story in a newspaper