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14-letter words containing s, o, u, c, h

  • croquembouches — Plural form of croquembouche.
  • crossed cheque — a cheque with two parallel lines on it, which is payable only into a bank account
  • cuproscheelite — (mineral) A mineral (CuWO4) having the same structure as scheelite but with calcium replaced by copper.
  • curiosity shop — a shop selling unusual items and curios
  • cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
  • cut-off switch — a switch that cuts off the supply of electricity
  • cuyahoga falls — a city in NE Ohio, near Akron.
  • cyclanthaceous — belonging to the Cyclanthaceae, a S American family of tropical plants
  • deinonychosaur — Any omnivorous or carnivorous coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur of the clade Deinonychosauria.
  • depth of focus — the amount by which the distance between the camera lens and the film can be altered without the resulting image appearing blurred
  • detached house — a house that is not joined to any other house
  • discount house — Also called discount store. a store that sells much of its merchandise at a price below the usual price.
  • discus thrower — an athlete whose event is the discus
  • 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.
  • 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
  • flesh-coloured — Something that is flesh-coloured is yellowish pink in colour.
  • focusing cloth — an opaque cloth surrounding the ground glass of a camera so as to shield the eyes of the photographer from light that would otherwise prevent seeing the image in the ground glass.
  • function shift — a change in the syntactic function of a word, as when the noun mushroom is used as an intransitive verb
  • futtock shroud — any of several metal rods secured at their lower ends to a futtock band and at their upper ends to a futtock plate, connecting the lower mast to the topmast rigging.
  • galactophorous — bearing milk; lactiferous.
  • geosynchronous — of or relating to a satellite traveling in an orbit 22,300 miles (35,900 km) above the earth's equator: at this altitude, the satellite's period of rotation, 24 hours, matches the earth's and the satellite always remains in the same spot over the earth: geostationary orbit.
  • gouda (cheese) — a mild, semisoft to hard cheese similar to Edam and sometimes coated with red wax
  • gynecomorphous — having the form, appearance, or attributes of a female.
  • half-conscious — aware of one's own existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings, etc.
  • hallucinations — Plural form of hallucination.
  • heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
  • hellaciousness — Quality of being hellacious.
  • hemicelluloses — Plural form of hemicellulose.
  • herbaceousness — The state or quality of being herbaceous.
  • heterochromous — of different colors.
  • heterochronous — a genetic shift in timing of the development of a tissue or anatomical part, or in the onset of a physiological process, relative to an ancestor.
  • holy scripture — Scripture (def 1).
  • holy sepulcher — the sepulcher in which the body of Jesus lay between His burial and His resurrection.
  • holy sepulchre — the tomb in which the body of Christ was laid after the Crucifixion
  • home insurance — Home insurance is insurance coverage for your home, its contents, and your possessions.
  • honours course — a degree course at honours level
  • horse chestnut — a tree, Aesculus hippocastanum, native to the Old World, having digitate leaves and upright clusters of white flowers.
  • horse-chestnut — a tree, Aesculus hippocastanum, native to the Old World, having digitate leaves and upright clusters of white flowers.
  • horticulturist — the cultivation of a garden, orchard, or nursery; the cultivation of flowers, fruits, vegetables, or ornamental plants.
  • house of cards — a structure or plan that is insubstantial and subject to imminent collapse, as a structure made by balancing playing cards against each other: The scheme is so overly complicated that it's likely to prove to be just another house of cards.
  • house-cleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
  • housing scheme — arrangement offering subsidized housing
  • humane society — (often initial capital letter) an organization devoted to promoting humane ideals, especially with reference to the treatment of animals.
  • humoristically — In a humoristic way.
  • hydroacoustics — the study of sound travelling through water
  • hydrocellulose — a gelatinous substance obtained by the partial hydrolysis of cellulose, used chiefly in the manufacture of paper, mercerized cotton, and viscose rayon.
  • hydrocephalous — Having a swollen head.
  • hydrosulphuric — Alternative spelling of hydrosulfuric.
  • hyperconscious — acutely aware.
  • ichthyolatrous — relating to the worship of fish or divination by means of fish parts
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