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15-letter words containing u, n, e, h

  • check guarantee — A check guarantee is any method, usually via a plastic card, that guarantees that a payment made by check will be honored by the account holder’s bank.
  • chef de cuisine — chef (def 1).
  • chenopodiaceous — belonging to the Chenopodiaceae, formerly the goosefoot family, now considered part of the amaranth family of plants.
  • chenopodium oil — a colorless or yellowish oil obtained from the seeds and leaves of Mexican tea, used chiefly in medicine as an agent for killing or expelling intestinal worms.
  • chestnut blight — a disease of chestnut trees, caused by a fungus (Endothia parasitica), that has virtually destroyed the American chestnut
  • chestnut bottle — an American glass bottle or flask of the 19th century, having slightly flattened sides.
  • chewings fescue — a hardy, fine-leaved variety of fescue, Festuca rubra commutata, grown in the U.S. and New Zealand as a lawn grass.
  • chicken nuggets — small pieces of chicken fried in batter
  • children's hour — a play (1934) by Lillian Hellman.
  • chinese juniper — a shrub or tree, Juniperus chinensis, of China, Mongolia, and Japan, having scalelike leaves and small, round, purplish-brown fruit.
  • chinese lacquer — lacquer (def 2).
  • chinese mustard — brown mustard.
  • church calendar — ecclesiastical calendar (def 2).
  • church-calendar — a calendar based on the lunisolar cycle, used by many Christian churches in determining the dates for the movable feasts.
  • collenchymatous — Relating to collenchyma.
  • common shelduck — a large, brightly coloured gooselike duck of the Old World, Tadorna tadorna
  • community chest — a fund raised by voluntary contribution for local welfare activities
  • connoisseurship — a person who is especially competent to pass critical judgments in an art, particularly one of the fine arts, or in matters of taste: a connoisseur of modern art.
  • consumer choice — the range of competing products and services from which a consumer can choose
  • contour feather — any of the feathers that cover the body of an adult bird, apart from the wings and tail, and determine its shape
  • copenhagen blue — a greyish-blue colour
  • council chamber — the room in which council meetings are held
  • countercathexis — (psychology) The suppression or repression of mental energy.
  • countercharging — Present participle of countercharge.
  • countercharming — Present participle of countercharm.
  • counterchecking — Present participle of countercheck.
  • counterflashing — (construction) Formed metal or elastomeric sheeting secured on or into a wall, curb, pipe or other surface, to cover and protect the upper edge of a base flashing and its associated fasteners.
  • countermarching — Present participle of countermarch.
  • counterpunching — Present participle of counterpunch.
  • counterpurchase — barter, especially of products or materials between international companies or importers and exporters.
  • counterweighted — Simple past tense and past participle of counterweight.
  • country kitchen — a large kitchen with ample areas for food preparation and eating.
  • credit-crunched — adversely affected by a credit crunch
  • cricopharyngeus — (anatomy) Part of the inferior pharyngeal constrictor, arising from the cricoid cartilage.
  • crush-resistant — not being easily creased
  • curl one's hair — to form into coils or ringlets, as the hair.
  • curtain shutter — a focal-plane shutter consisting of a curtain on two rollers, moved at a constant speed past the lens opening so as to expose the film to one of several slots in the curtain, the width of which determines the length of exposure.
  • daughter-in-law — Someone's daughter-in-law is the wife of their son.
  • de bruijn graph — (mathematics)   A class of graphs with elegant properties. De Bruijn graphs are especially easy to use for routing, with shifting of source and destination addresses.
  • deoch-an-doruis — a parting drink or stirrup cup
  • deus ex machina — (in ancient Greek and Roman drama) a god introduced into a play to resolve the plot
  • dichotomousness — the quality of being dichotomous
  • distinguishable — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • distinguishment — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • do the business — to achieve what is required
  • do your head in — If something or someone does your head in, they make you angry or frustrated.
  • dougherty wagon — a horse- or mule-drawn passenger wagon having doors on the side, transverse seats, and canvas sides that can be rolled down.
  • durchkomponiert — having a different tune for each section rather than having repeated melodies
  • dutchman's-pipe — a climbing vine, Aristolochia durior, of the birthwort family, having large, heart-shaped leaves and brownish-purple flowers of a curved form suggesting a tobacco pipe.
  • echinodermatous — belonging or pertaining to the echinoderms.
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