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12-letter words containing a, c, h, e, r

  • archetypally — the original pattern or model from which all things of the same kind are copied or on which they are based; a model or first form; prototype.
  • archetypical — Archetypical means the same as archetypal.
  • archiannelid — (zoology) Any member of the Archiannelida.
  • archibenthos — the ocean bottom between the littoral and abyssal zones: from depths of approximately 200 feet (60 meters) to 3300 feet (1000 meters).
  • archipelagic — a large group or chain of islands: the Malay Archipelago.
  • archipelagos — Plural form of archipelago.
  • archiphoneme — an abstract linguistic unit representing two or more phonemes when the distinction between these has been neutralized: conventionally shown by a capital letter within slashes, as /T/ for /t/ and /d/ in German Rat and Rad
  • architecting — a person who engages in the profession of architecture.
  • architecture — Architecture is the art of planning, designing, and constructing buildings.
  • archive file — a single computer file that contains one or more files that have been compressed
  • archive site — (networking)   (Or "FTP site", "FTP archive") An Internet host where program source, documents, e-mail or news messages are stored for public access via anonymous FTP, Gopher, web or other document distribution system. There may be several archive sites (mirrors) for, e.g., a Usenet newsgroup though one may be recognised as the main one. FTP servers were common on the Internet for about ten years but have been largely replaced by web servers since the invention of the World-Wide Web and its HTTP protocol. Some well-known archive sites included Imperial College, UK, UUNET, USA, GNU archive site. The archie service attempted to index the contents of FTP archives, foreshadowing the indexing of the web by Google and others.
  • arena chapel — a private chapel in Padua containing a fresco cycle painted (1305–06) by Giotto.
  • arithmetical — Arithmetical calculations, processes, or skills involve the addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division of numbers.
  • armada chest — an iron or iron-bound strongbox of the 17th or 18th century.
  • arming chest — a chest for holding armor and weapons.
  • arthrobacter — a genus of rod-shaped or spherical bacteria found in the soil.
  • arthroscopes — Plural form of arthroscope.
  • ash-coloured — silver-grey in colour
  • astrochemist — (chemistry, astronomy) A chemist or astronomer whose speciality is astrochemistry.
  • asynchronies — a lack of synchronism or coincidence in time.
  • at a stretch — with some difficulty; by making a special effort
  • atheoretical — having no connection with and not founded on theory
  • atmospherics — Atmospherics are elements in something such as a piece of music or a book which create a certain atmosphere.
  • autochangers — Plural form of autochanger.
  • bach trumpet — a modern small three-valved trumpet for playing clarino passages in Bach's music
  • bachelor pad — a flat in which a bachelor lives
  • bachelorette — A bachelorette is a woman who has never married.
  • bachelorhood — the state of being a bachelor.
  • bachelorship — the state of being a bachelor; bachelorhood
  • back stretch — the straight part of a race track opposite the part leading to the finish line.
  • backbenchers — Plural form of backbencher.
  • bag snatcher — a thief whose main tactic is to grab women's handbags and run off with them
  • baluchithere — a hornless rhinoceros of the extinct genus Baluchitherium that inhabited central Asia during the Oligocene and early Miocene epochs: the largest land mammal known.
  • bandersnatch — a fictional creature created by Lewis Carroll in his poem Jabberwocky, and appearing also in The Hunting of the Snark and Through the Looking-Glass
  • bank charges — penalties charged by a bank to a customer, for example when the customer's account is overdrawn or if a cheque is not honoured
  • barber chair — a chair used by barbers, adjustable in height and having an adjustable headrest, back, and footrest.
  • barrel chair — a kind of upholstered chair with an upright, rounded back
  • basket chair — a chair made of wickerwork; a wicker chair
  • bathtub race — a sailing race between bathtubs fitted with outboard motors
  • baton charge — A baton charge is an attacking forward movement made by a large group of policemen carrying batons.
  • beach-comber — a person who lives by gathering salable articles of jetsam, refuse, etc., from beaches.
  • beach-la-mar — an English-based creole language spoken in Vanuatu and Fiji, and formerly much more widespread
  • beachcombers — Plural form of beachcomber.
  • beaumarchais — Pierre Augustin Caron de (pjɛr oɡystɛ̃ karɔ̃ də). 1732–99, French dramatist, noted for his comedies The Barber of Seville (1775) and The Marriage of Figaro (1784)
  • beaver cloth — beaver1 (def 8).
  • beech marten — stone marten.
  • bench-warmer — a substitute who rarely gets to play in a game.
  • benchmarking — In business, benchmarking is a process in which a company compares its products and methods with those of the most successful companies in its field, in order to try to improve its own performance.
  • beyond reach — inaccessible
  • bird watcher — a person who identifies and observes birds in their natural habitat as a recreation.
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