11-letter words containing o, u, a, c, h
- chibougamau — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- chlamydeous — (of plants) relating to or possessing sepals and petals
- chou en-lai — 1898–1976, Chinese Communist statesman; foreign minister of the People's Republic of China (1949–58) and premier (1949–76)
- chou pastry — cream puff paste.
- chrome alum — a violet-red crystalline substance, used as a mordant in dyeing. Formula: KCr(SO4)2.12H2O
- chuck wagon — a wagon carrying provisions and cooking utensils for men, such as cowboys, who work in the open
- chukka boot — an ankle-high boot made of suede or rubber and worn for playing polo
- chum salmon — a large salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) with pale flesh, found in the N Pacific
- churchwoman — a female practising member of a church
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- crack house — a house or flat where drugs are dealt and used
- crazy house — an asylum for people with psychiatric disorders
- creophagous — flesh-eating or carnivorous
- cuitlacoche — corn smut.
- curatorship — The rank or period of being a curator.
- cut throats — a person who cuts the throat of another; a murderer.
- cymophanous — lustrous; brilliant
- cytophagous — the ingestion of cells by other cells.
- dawn chorus — The dawn chorus is the singing of birds at dawn.
- dicephalous — having two heads
- dichogamous — having the stamens and pistils maturing at different times, thereby preventing self-pollination, as a monoclinous flower (opposed to homogamous).
- donut peach — fruit
- douchecanoe — (vulgar, slang, pejorative) A rude, obnoxious, or contemptible person.
- escarmouche — a skirmish
- 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
- fucoxanthin — a brown carotenoid pigment occurring in brown algae, diatoms, and dinoflagellates.
- glaucophane — a sodium-rich monoclinic mineral of the amphibole family, usually metamorphic.
- hack around — to cut, notch, slice, chop, or sever (something) with or as with heavy, irregular blows (often followed by up or down): to hack meat; to hack down trees.
- hair colour — the colour or shade of someone's hair
- harnoncourt — Nikolaus. 1929–2016, Austrian conductor and cellist, noted for his performances using period instruments
- haunch bone — the ilium or hipbone.
- haunch-bone — the ilium or hipbone.
- haute ecole — a series of intricate steps, gaits, etc., taught to an exhibition horse.
- heat source — sth that generates warmth
- hederaceous — (rare) Of, pertaining to, or resembling ivy.
- hercogamous — (of flowers) incapable of self-fertilization
- hippocampus — Classical Mythology. a sea horse with two forefeet, and a body ending in the tail of a dolphin or fish.
- holocaustic — a great or complete devastation or destruction, especially by fire.
- homonuclear — a homonuclear molecule is composed of atoms of the same element or isotope and all of its nuclei are alike
- horn clause — (logic) A set of atomic literals with at most one positive literal. Usually written L <- L1, ..., Ln or <- L1, ..., Ln where n>=0, "<-" means "is implied by" and comma stands for conjuction ("AND"). If L is false the clause is regarded as a goal. Horn clauses can express a subset of statements of first order logic. The name "Horn Clause" comes from the logician Alfred Horn, who first pointed out the significance of such clauses in 1951, in the article "On sentences which are true of direct unions of algebras", Journal of Symbolic Logic, 16, 14-21. A definite clause is a Horn clause that has exactly one positive literal.
- house place — (in medieval architecture) a room common to all the inhabitants of a house, as a hall.
- house-clean — to clean the inside of a person's house