12-letter words containing r, h, e, u
- churchpeople — people belonging to a church
- churchperson — A person involved with the church; a churchgoer or cleric.
- churchwarden — In the Anglican Church, a churchwarden is the person who has been chosen by a congregation to help the vicar of a parish with administration and other duties.
- churlishness — The state of being churlish.
- cichoraceous — relating to plants of the sub-order Cichoraceae
- clothesbrush — A brush for the clothes.
- club fighter — a mediocre boxer who fights mostly on programs at small sporting clubs
- coachbuilder — (historical) A builder of horse-drawn coaches.
- colour depth — bits per pixel
- colour phase — a seasonal change in the coloration of some animals
- come through — To come through a dangerous or difficult situation means to survive it and recover from it.
- conchiferous — (esp of molluscs) having or producing a shell
- consumership — the state of being a consumer
- corner house — a house situated on the corner of two streets
- counter hand — a person who works behind a counter; assistant
- countercharm — an object or action that is capable of destroying a magical charm
- countercheck — a check or restraint, esp one that acts in opposition to another
- counterearth — (in Pythagorean astronomy) a planet, out of sight from our part of the earth, whose shadow upon the sun and moon, cast by a central fire that is also out of sight, causes the eclipses.
- counterlight — a light opposite something, such as a painting, that negatively affects the appearance of that object
- countermarch — to march or cause to march back along the same route
- counterpunch — to punch an attacking opponent; return an attack
- countershaft — an intermediate shaft that is driven by, but rotates in the opposite direction to, a main shaft, esp in a gear train
- counterweigh — counterbalance
- crash course — A crash course in a particular subject is a short course in which you are taught basic facts or skills, for example before you start a new job.
- craw-thumper — an ostentatiously pious person
- creaturehood — the state of being a creature
- croquet hoop — a hoop stuck into a croquet lawn
- cruelhearted — having a cruel heart; lacking kindness, compassion, etc.
- culture hero — a mythical or mythicized historical figure who embodies the aspirations or ideals of a society.
- curietherapy — a form of radiation therapy using radium
- curly-haired — having hair that forms curls
- curule chair — an upholstered folding seat with curved legs used by the highest civil officials of ancient Rome
- cycle crunch — (jargon) A situation wherein the number of people trying to use a computer simultaneously has reached the point where no one can get enough cycles because they are spread too thin and the system has probably begun to thrash. This scenario is an inevitable result of Parkinson's Law applied to time-sharing. Usually the only solution is to buy more computer. Happily, this has rapidly become easier since the mid-1980s, so much so that the very term "cycle crunch" now has a faintly archaic flavour; most hackers now use workstations or personal computers as opposed to traditional time-sharing systems.
- daughtercard — daughterboard
- daughterless — Without a daughter.
- daughterlike — Resembling a daughter.
- daughterling — a small daughter
- debaucheries — Plural form of debauchery.
- debaucherous — tending toward or involving debauchery, or excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures: a night of debaucherous fun.
- dehumidifier — A dehumidifier is a machine that is used to reduce the amount of moisture in the air.
- deinotherium — any member of the genus Deinotherium, consisting of mammals resembling elephants that existed during the Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene epochs
- desulphurize — to free or become free from sulphur
- deuteropathy — any abnormality that is secondary to another pathological condition.
- disauthorize — to take authority away from (a person or organization)
- disburthened — Simple past tense and past participle of disburthen.
- disc shutter — a shutter in a movie camera or projector that covers the gap between separate frames
- double rhyme — a rhyme either of two syllables of which the second is unstressed (double rhyme) as in motion, notion, or of three syllables of which the second and third are unstressed (triple rhyme) as in fortunate, importunate.
- double sharp — a symbol (× or ) that raises by two semitones the pitch of the following note.
- doubleheader — Sports. two games, as of baseball, between the same teams on the same day in immediate succession. two games, as of basketball, between two different pairs of teams on the same day in immediate succession.
- draught beer — beer which is stored in bulk, esp in a cask, as opposed to being bottled