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13-letter words containing u, n, h, a, c

  • human capital — the collective skills, knowledge, or other intangible assets of individuals that can be used to create economic value for the individuals, their employers, or their community: Education is an investment in human capital that pays off in terms of higher productivity.
  • human cloning — the act of producing a human as a clone
  • human ecology — ecology (def 4).
  • hunt and peck — a slow and inefficient method of typing by looking for each key separately before striking it: used by untrained typists.
  • hunt-and-peck — a method of typing while looking at the keyboard, usually using only the forefingers to press the keys
  • hunting chair — a chair having a sliding frame in front serving as a footrest.
  • hunting watch — hunter (def 6).
  • hydraulicking — a type of mining that uses water to move rock
  • ichthyofaunal — relating to ichthyofauna
  • johnny canuck — a personification of Canada
  • kachang puteh — (in Malaysia) roasted or fried nuts or beans
  • kangchenjunga — a mountain on the border between Nepal and Sikkim, in the Himalayas: the third highest mountain in the world. Height: 8598 m (28 208 ft)
  • kenyapithecus — a genus of fossil hominoids of middle Miocene age found in Kenya and having large molars, small incisors, and powerful chewing muscles.
  • knuckleheaded — Stupid or inept, like a knucklehead.
  • laughingstock — an object of ridicule; the butt of a joke or the like: His ineptness as a public official made him the laughingstock of the whole town.
  • launch window — a precise time period during which a spacecraft can be launched from a particular site in order to achieve a desired mission, as a rendezvous with another spacecraft.
  • launching pad — the platform on which a missile or launch vehicle undergoes final prelaunch checkout and countdown and from which it is launched from the surface of the earth.
  • leprechaunish — somewhat similar to a leprechaun
  • li hung-chang — 1823–1901, Chinese statesman.
  • low churchman — a person who advocates or follows Low Church practices.
  • luncheon meat — any of various sausages or molded loaf meats, usually sliced and served cold, as in sandwiches or as garnishes for salads.
  • lycanthropous — Lycanthropic.
  • machinegunned — Simple past tense and past participle of machinegun.
  • mango chutney — chutney which contains or is made from the fruit mango
  • mare chronium — an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars, appearing as a dark region when viewed telescopically from the earth.
  • match-funding — the stipulation set by a grant-providing body that the recipients of a grant raise a certain percentage of the money they require, generally a sum more or less equal to that of the sum of money being granted
  • melancholious — (obsolete) melancholy.
  • melanochroous — having dark-coloured or black skin
  • much-maligned — If you describe someone or something as much-maligned, you mean that they are often criticized by people, but you think the criticism is unfair or exaggerated because they have good qualities too.
  • multibranched — Having more than one branch.
  • natural child — Law. an illegitimate child; one born of illicit intercourse. (especially in Louisiana) an illegitimate child who has been lawfully acknowledged by its father.
  • neurochemical — of or relating to neurochemistry.
  • non-rheumatic — pertaining to or of the nature of rheumatism.
  • nonchauvinist — a person who is not a chauvinist
  • not much of a — If you describe something as not much of a particular type of thing, you mean that it is small or of poor quality.
  • nouveau riche — a person who is newly rich: the ostentation of the nouveaux riches of the 1920s.
  • nut chocolate — chocolate containing nuts
  • nymphaeaceous — belonging to the Nymphaeaceae, the water lily family of plants.
  • ocean sunfish — a brown and gray mola, Mola mola, inhabiting tropical and temperate seas, having the posterior half of the body sharply truncated behind the elongated dorsal and anal fins.
  • octagon house — a type of American house, c. 1850, having an octagonal perimeter to reduce exterior wall area.
  • one-punch law — a law prescribing punitive sentences for assault, including assault comprising a single blow
  • packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
  • patch pumpkin — pumpkin
  • pentastichous — (of plant leaves) arranged in five vertical rows
  • poison sumach — an anacardiaceous swamp shrub, Rhus (or Toxicodendron) vernix of the southeastern US, that has greenish-white berries and causes an itching rash on contact with the skin
  • puritan ethic — work ethic.
  • quadraphonics — high-fidelity sound reproduction involving signals transmitted through four different channels.
  • quadriphonics — quadraphony.
  • rann of kutch — an extensive salt waste in W central India, and S Pakistan: consists of the Great Rann in the north and the Little Rann in the southeast; seasonal alternation between marsh and desert; some saltworks. In 1968 an international tribunal awarded about 10 per cent of the border area to Pakistan. Area: 23 000 sq km (9000 sq miles)
  • rauschenbusch — Walter, 1861–1918, U.S. clergyman and social reformer.
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