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11-letter words containing u, c, h

  • chug report — (humour)   From "chug" - to drink heavily. A bug report whose the submitter is thought to have had one too many. Not as bad as a drug report.
  • chugalugged — Simple past tense and past participle of chugalug.
  • chukchi sea — part of the Arctic Ocean, north of the Bering Strait between Asia and North America
  • chukka boot — an ankle-high boot made of suede or rubber and worn for playing polo
  • chula vista — city in SW Calif.: suburb of San Diego: pop. 174,000
  • chum salmon — a large salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) with pale flesh, found in the N Pacific
  • chupacabras — Plural form of chupacabra.
  • church army — a voluntary Anglican organization founded in 1882 to assist the parish clergy
  • church book — any of various books commonly used by a church, as a service book or a parish register.
  • church hall — a building near to or attached to a church suitable for social gatherings
  • church mode — a mode belonging to a codified system of modes in use in Gregorian chant and in other music to c1600.
  • church rate — (formerly in England and Ireland) a compulsory assessment imposed on the parishioners' holdings of houses or land in order to repair the parish church and maintain its services.
  • church text — a heavy typeface in Gothic style
  • churchgoers — a person who goes to church, especially habitually.
  • churchgoing — a person who goes to church, especially habitually.
  • churchwards — in the direction of the church
  • churchwoman — a female practising member of a church
  • churchwomen — Plural form of churchwoman.
  • churchyards — Plural form of churchyard.
  • churn drill — a portable drill rig using a bit fashioned on a massive steel cylinder that is alternately lifted and dropped to drill a hole in earth and rock.
  • chyliferous — containing chyle
  • chymiferous — containing chyme
  • cladanthous — pleurocarpous.
  • clean house — to clean and put a home in order
  • closehauled — having the sails adjusted for heading as nearly as possible into the wind
  • clubmanship — the status of belonging to an active club
  • clutch disk — The clutch disk or clutch plate is the rotating part of the clutch, to which the friction material is attached.
  • clutch slip — Clutch slip is a faulty condition in which there is not enough friction in the clutch, so that engine speed rises without a corresponding increase in road speed.
  • coach house — a building in which a coach is kept
  • coach-built — (of a vehicle) having specially built bodywork
  • coauthoring — Present participle of coauthor.
  • cochlearium — In Ancient Rome, a small spoon with a long tapering handle.
  • coconut shy — a fairground stall in which balls are thrown to knock coconuts off stands
  • coffee hour — an informal gathering of people at which coffee and refreshments are served.
  • coffeehouse — an establishment that sells coffee and usually other refreshments and that commonly serves as an informal club for its regular customers
  • column inch — a unit of measurement for advertising space, one inch deep and one column wide
  • conchylious — Archaic form of conchylaceous.
  • convex hull — the smallest convex set containing a given set; the intersection of all convex sets that contain a given set.
  • cool hunter — a person who is employed to identify future trends, esp in fashion or the media
  • copublisher — a publisher that publishes a work in conjunction with another publisher
  • cornhuskers — Plural form of cornhusker.
  • cornhusking — the removal of the husk from corn
  • cotton bush — any of various downy chenopodiaceous shrubs, esp Kochia aphylla, which is used to feed livestock
  • cottonmouth — water moccasin
  • couch grass — a grass, Agropyron repens, with a yellowish-white creeping underground stem by which it spreads quickly: a troublesome weed
  • couch-grass — any of various grasses, especially Agropyron repens, known chiefly as troublesome weeds and characterized by creeping rootstocks that spread rapidly.
  • cough sweet — a lozenge to relieve a cough
  • cough syrup — Cough syrup is a liquid medicine that you take when you have a cough.
  • countermyth — a myth that conflicts with another myth
  • countershot — a sequence of frames seen from the perspective of the subject of the previous shot
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