14-letter words containing s, h, u, e, r
- counter-thrust — to push forcibly; shove; put or drive with force: He thrust his way through the crowd. She thrust a dagger into his back.
- countercharges — Plural form of countercharge.
- countermarches — Plural form of countermarch.
- counterpunches — Plural form of counterpunch.
- countershading — (in the coloration of certain animals) a pattern, serving as camouflage, in which dark colours occur on parts of the body exposed to the light and pale colours on parts in the shade
- counterweights — Plural form of counterweight.
- courtesy coach — a free coach
- courtesy light — the interior light in a motor vehicle
- cover-shoulder — a type of blouse worn in Ghana
- cranberry bush — a North American caprifoliaceous shrub or small tree, Viburnum trilobum, producing acid red fruit
- croquembouches — Plural form of croquembouche.
- crossed cheque — a cheque with two parallel lines on it, which is payable only into a bank account
- cruiserweights — Plural form of cruiserweight.
- crunch numbers — to crush with the teeth; chew with a crushing noise.
- crushed velvet — velvet with a flat finish that has a creased effect
- cuproscheelite — (mineral) A mineral (CuWO4) having the same structure as scheelite but with calcium replaced by copper.
- curtain speech — a talk given in front of the curtain after a stage performance, often by the author or an actor
- cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
- data warehouse — Computers. a large, centralized collection of digital data gathered from various units within an organization: The annual report uses information from the data warehouse.
- daughterboards — Plural form of daughterboard.
- daughterliness — The quality of being daughterly.
- deinonychosaur — Any omnivorous or carnivorous coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur of the clade Deinonychosauria.
- deputy sheriff — a person that is authorized to act as sheriff in certain circumstances
- desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
- discharge tube — gas tube.
- discus thrower — an athlete whose event is the discus
- disfurnishment — the act or quality of disfurnishing
- distraughtness — The state or quality of being distraught or agitated; distressedness.
- do the honours — If someone does the honours at a social occasion or public event, they act as host or perform some official function.
- double harness — harness for a pair of horses.
- dowager's hump — a type of kyphosis, common in older women, in which the shoulders become rounded and the upper back develops a hump: caused by osteoporosis resulting in skeletal deformity.
- draughtsperson — Alternative spelling of draftsperson.
- dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
- dunbartonshire — a historical county of W Scotland: became part of Strathclyde region in 1975; administered since 1996 by the council areas of East Dunbartonshire and West Dunbartonshire
- duty-free shop — airport: untaxed goods store
- dwarf chestnut — the edible nut of the chinquapin tree
- eastern church — any of the churches originating in countries formerly part of the Eastern Roman Empire, observing an Eastern rite and adhering to the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed; Byzantine Church.
- emprosthotonus — (medicine) A condition in which the body is bent sharply forward.
- ethnoreligious — Of or pertaining to ethnicity and religion.
- euphorbiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Euphorbiaceae, a family of plants typically having capsular fruits: includes the spurges, the castor oil and cassava plants, cascarilla, and poinsettia
- farmhouse loaf — a large white loaf, baked in a tin, with slightly curved sides and top
- feather duster — a brush for dusting, made of a bundle of large feathers attached to a short handle.
- field mushroom — any of various fleshy fungi including the toadstools, puffballs, coral fungi, morels, etc.
- flash spectrum — the emission spectrum of the chromosphere of the sun, which dominates the solar spectrum in the seconds just before and after a total solar eclipse.
- flesh-coloured — Something that is flesh-coloured is yellowish pink in colour.
- flight surgeon — a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force who is trained in aviation medicine.
- for the use of — If something is for the use of a particular person or group of people, it is for that person or group to use.
- four-eyed fish — a small, surface-swimming fish, Anableps anableps, inhabiting shallow, muddy streams of Mexico and Central America, having each eye divided, with the upper half adapted for seeing in air and the lower half for seeing in water.
- french mustard — a mild mustard paste made with vinegar rather than water
- fresh out (of) — having just sold or used up the last one or part (of)