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12-letter words containing r, h, e, u

  • bristlemouth — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Gonostomatidae, having numerous sharp, slender teeth covering the jaws.
  • brochureware — (jargon, business)   A planned, but non-existent, product, like vaporware but with the added implication that marketing is actively selling and promoting it (they've printed brochures). Brochureware is often deployed to con customers into not committing to a competing existing product. The term is now especially applicable to new websites, website revisions, and ancillary services such as customer support and product return. Owing to the explosion of database-driven, cookie-using dot-coms (of the sort that can now deduce that you are, in fact, a dog), the term is now also used to describe sites made up of static HTML pages that contain not much more than contact info and mission statements. The term suggests that the company is small, irrelevant to the web, local in scope, clueless, broke, just starting out, or some combination thereof. Many new companies without product, funding, or even staff, post brochureware with investor info and press releases to help publicise their ventures. As of December 1999, examples include pop.com and cdradio.com. Small-timers that really have no business on the web such as lawncare companies and divorce laywers inexplicably have brochureware made that stays unchanged for years.
  • brunelleschi — Filippo (fiˈlippo). 1377–1446, Italian architect, whose works in Florence include the dome of the cathedral, the Pazzi chapel of Santa Croce, and the church of San Lorenzo
  • brush border — a layer of tightly packed minute finger-like protuberances on cells that line absorptive surfaces, such as those of the intestine and kidney
  • brush flower — a flower or inflorescence with numerous long stamens, usually pollinated by birds or bats
  • brush turkey — any of several gallinaceous birds, esp Alectura lathami, of New Guinea and Australia, having a black plumage: family Megapodidae (megapodes)
  • buccaneerish — of or relating to a buccaneer
  • burner phone — a disposable cell phone with prepaid service, often used with the intent to temporarily obscure the true identity or contact information of the user: Members of the cartel used burner phones to evade federal surveillance. I always give out the number from my burner phone when I’m going on a blind date.
  • bush leaguer — Also called busher. Baseball. a player in a minor league. an incompetent player, as one who behaves or plays as if he or she belonged in a minor league.
  • bush-leaguer — (in baseball) someone who plays in a minor league
  • butcher shop — a shop in which meat, poultry, and sometimes fish are sold.
  • butter cloth — a type of open, unsized muslin
  • butterscotch — Butterscotch is a hard yellowish-brown sweet made from butter and sugar boiled together.
  • buy the farm — a tract of land, usually with a house, barn, silo, etc., on which crops and often livestock are raised for livelihood.
  • center punch — a steel punch for marking a spot where a hole is to be drilled
  • centre punch — a small steel tool with a conical tip used to punch a small indentation at the location of the centre of a hole to be drilled
  • chaetiferous — having bristles
  • chaff-cutter — a machine used to chop up hay and straw to make it into chaff for feeding to cattle
  • chambersburg — a city in central Pennsylvania.
  • change purse — A change purse is a very small bag that people, especially women, keep their money in.
  • change round — to place in or adopt a different or opposite position
  • changearound — the act of changing to a different position
  • channel surf — to change from one channel on a television set to another with great or unusual frequency, especially by using a remote control.
  • channel-surf — to switch TV channels repeatedly using a remote-control device, usually so as to sample brief segments of programs
  • chapeau bras — a small three-cornered hat, worn by gentlemen in full dress in the 18th century, that could be folded flat and carried under the arm.
  • chapterhouse — the building attached to a cathedral, collegiate church, or religious house in which the chapter meets
  • characterful — If you describe something as characterful, you mean that it is pleasant and interesting.
  • charcuteries — Plural form of charcuterie.
  • charge nurse — A charge nurse is a nurse who is in charge of a hospital ward.
  • charlesbourg — city in S Quebec, Canada: pop. 71,000
  • charnelhouse — Alternative form of charnel house.
  • chartbusters — Plural form of chartbuster.
  • charterhouse — a Carthusian monastery
  • chartularies — Plural form of chartulary.
  • chauffeuring — Present participle of chauffeur.
  • cheerfulness — full of cheer; in good spirits: a cheerful person.
  • cheeseburger — A cheeseburger is a flat round piece of cooked meat called a burger with a slice of cheese on top, served in a bread roll.
  • cheesecutter — a board with a wire attached for cutting cheese
  • chemosurgery — a method of treating cancer involving the use of chemicals to destroy malignant tissue or skin
  • chequerboard — Alternative spelling of checkerboard.
  • cherubically — In a cherubic way.
  • child abuser — someone who abuses a child, esp someone convicted of this
  • chiliburgers — Plural form of chiliburger.
  • chinese burn — a minor torture inflicted by twisting the skin of a person's wrist or arm in two different directions simultaneously
  • chinese tour — a tour in which visitors are shown only what those in charge want them to see.
  • chirurgeonly — in the manner of a surgeon
  • chorus pedal — an electronic device that creates the effect of more than one sound from a single source by combining a short delay with slight deviations in pitch
  • chorusmaster — the conductor of a choir
  • chromiferous — Containing, or yielding chromium.
  • chukot range — mountain range in NE Siberia: highest peak, c. 7,500 ft (2,286 m)
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