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11-letter words containing a, c, h, r, o

  • bar cocheba — Simon, died a.d. 135, Hebrew leader of insurrection against the Romans a.d. 132–135.
  • baranovichi — a city in W central Belarus, SW of Minsk.
  • barographic — Measured using a barograph.
  • baron-cohen — Sacha. born 1970, British television and film comedian, best known for his creation of the characters Ali G and Borat
  • beachcomber — A beachcomber is someone who spends their time wandering along beaches looking for things they can use.
  • bioresearch — the investigation of the nature of living organisms; biological research.
  • black humor — a form of humor that regards human suffering as absurd rather than pitiable, or that considers human existence as ironic and pointless but somehow comic.
  • board check — a body check in which the opponent is thrown against the wooden wall enclosing the rink. Compare check1 (def 37).
  • boat anchor — 1. Like doorstop but more severe; implies that the offending hardware is irreversibly dead or useless. "That was a working motherboard once. One lightning strike later, instant boat anchor!" 2. A person who just takes up space. 3. Obsolete but still working hardware, especially when used of an old S100-bus hobbyist system; originally a term of annoyance, but became more and more affectionate as the hardware became more and more obsolete.
  • body search — If a person is body searched, someone such as a police officer searches them while they remain clothed. Compare strip-search.
  • body-search — to search all parts of the body of: Police ordered the suspects to strip and then body-searched them for hidden caches of narcotics.
  • brachiation — locomotion accomplished by swinging by the arms from one hold to another.
  • brachiosaur — any of a genus (Brachiosaurus) of huge Jurassic sauropods having longer forelegs than hind legs and nostrils high on the forehead
  • brachyodont — (of mammals, such as humans) having teeth with short crowns
  • brachyurous — shorttailed, as a crab (opposed to macrurous).
  • branchiform — shaped like a gill.
  • branchiopod — any crustacean of the mainly freshwater subclass Branchiopoda, having flattened limblike appendages for swimming, feeding, and respiration. The group includes the water fleas
  • bright coal — coal consisting of alternating layers of clarain and vitrain.
  • broad reach — an act or instance of reaching: to make a reach for a gun.
  • brochantite — a mineral, hydrous copper sulfate, Cu 4 (OH) 6 SO 4 , occurring in green fibrous masses and similar in physical properties to antlerite: formerly a major ore of copper.
  • brood patch — a highly vascular, featherless area developed on the abdomen of certain brooding birds that is in direct contact with eggs during incubation and provides additional warmth.
  • brown patch — a fungus disease of turf grass that results in circular areas of brown, dead grass.
  • brunch coat — a knee-length housecoat.
  • cachinatory — Alternative form of cachinnatory.
  • cachinnator — One who laughs loudly and immoderately.
  • cacographic — Displaying the properties of bad spelling or bad handwriting or both.
  • caecotrophy — (biology) In certain mammals, especially rabbits and other lagomorphs, the consumption of food pellets which are naturally produced by means of digestion, retention in the caecum, and expulsion through the anus.
  • calathiform — cup-shaped; concave.
  • calochortus — any plant of the genus Calochortus, of the lily family, as the mariposa lily and the sego lily.
  • cameraphone — a mobile phone incorporating a camera
  • camphor ice — an ointment consisting of camphor, white wax, spermaceti, and castor oil, used to treat skin ailments, esp chapped skin
  • camphor oil — a colorless liquid obtained from the wood of the camphor tree by distillation and separation from the solid camphor, used in varnish, soaps, and shoe polish, and in medicine chiefly as a rubefacient.
  • camphorated — impregnated or combined with camphor
  • camphorates — Plural form of camphorate.
  • camphorweed — vinegarweed.
  • camphorwood — The wood of Cinnamomum camphora, an evergreen tree whose leaves have a smell of camphor when crushed.
  • canoe birch — paper birch.
  • card hopper — a device that allows cards of varying thicknesses to be fed individually through an outlet opening in a printer without adjustment
  • cardholders — Plural form of cardholder.
  • cardiograph — an instrument for recording the mechanical force and form of heart movements
  • cardiopathy — a heart disease or disorder
  • cardophagus — a donkey
  • carpet moth — any of several geometrid moths with black- (or brown-)and-white mottled wings
  • carpophores — Plural form of carpophore.
  • carpophorus — an epithet of both Demeter and her daughter, Persephone, meaning “fruit-bearer.”.
  • cartography — Cartography is the art or activity of drawing maps and geographical charts.
  • cartophilic — relating to cartophily
  • cast anchor — to anchor a vessel
  • catastrophe — A catastrophe is an unexpected event that causes great suffering or damage.
  • catastrophy — Alternative form of catastrophe.
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