14-letter words containing s, h, u, n
- clearinghouses — Plural form of clearinghouse.
- conchyliaceous — Alternative form of conchylaceous.
- consultantship — the office or function of a consultant
- coquettishness — The state or quality of being coquettish.
- costume change — a change of costume by an actor
- council school — (esp formerly) any school maintained by the state
- count the cost — If someone counts the cost of something that has happened or will happen, they consider how the consequences of that action or event affect them.
- 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.
- counting house — a room or building used by the accountants of a business
- cranberry bush — a North American caprifoliaceous shrub or small tree, Viburnum trilobum, producing acid red fruit
- crash and burn — to fail; be unsuccessful
- cruising yacht — a yacht which is used for holiday trips
- crunch numbers — to crush with the teeth; chew with a crushing noise.
- cuban sandwich — a hero sandwich, especially with ham, pork, cheese, and pickles, often grilled.
- 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.
- cut and thrust — If you talk about the cut and thrust of an activity, you are talking about the aspects of it that make it exciting and challenging.
- cyclanthaceous — belonging to the Cyclanthaceae, a S American family of tropical plants
- daughterliness — The quality of being daughterly.
- de haut en bas — with haughtiness; condescendingly
- dehumanisation — Alternative spelling of dehumanization.
- deinonychosaur — Any omnivorous or carnivorous coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur of the clade Deinonychosauria.
- delightfulness — The state or quality of being delightful.
- desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
- diaphanousness — The quality of being diaphanous.
- discount house — Also called discount store. a store that sells much of its merchandise at a price below the usual price.
- disfurnishment — the act or quality of disfurnishing
- distinguishing — distinctive; characteristic, as a definitive feature of an individual or group: Intricate rhyming is a distinguishing feature of her poetry.
- 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.
- down the tubes — a hollow, usually cylindrical body of metal, glass, rubber, or other material, used especially for conveying or containing liquids or gases.
- dragon's mouth — arethusa (def 1).
- 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
- dust and ashes — something that is very disappointing
- dutchman's log — a method of gauging a ship's speed, in which the distance between two shipboard observation stations is divided by the time elapsing between the throwing overboard of an object by the first station and the sighting of it by the second.
- dwarf chestnut — the edible nut of the chinquapin tree
- dwelling house — a house occupied, or intended to be occupied, as a residence.
- 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.
- english muffin — crumpet
- english walnut — an Asiatic walnut tree (Juglans regia) now grown in Europe and North America
- enthusiastical — (obsolete) enthusiastic.