12-letter words containing a, c, h, r, o
- beaver cloth — beaver1 (def 8).
- beyond reach — inaccessible
- biographical — Biographical facts, notes, or details are concerned with the events in someone's life.
- black heroin — a very potent and addictive form of heroin that is dark-colored.
- block heater — an electrically operated immersion heater fitted either to enter the water hose or the water jacket surrounding the cylinder block of a motor to warm the coolant in cold weather.
- board school — (formerly) a school managed by a board elected by local ratepayers
- bound charge — any electric charge that is bound to an atom or molecule (opposed to free charge).
- brachycerous — (of insects) having short antennae
- branch depot — one of a several depots receiving stock from the same central supplier
- branch point — Electricity. a point in an electric network at which three or more conductors meet.
- breechloader — any gun loaded at the breech
- broad church — You can refer to an organization, group, or area of activity as a broad church when it includes a wide range of opinions, beliefs, or styles.
- brochureware — (jargon, business) A planned, but non-existent, product, like vaporware but with the added implication that marketing is actively selling and promoting it (they've printed brochures). Brochureware is often deployed to con customers into not committing to a competing existing product. The term is now especially applicable to new websites, website revisions, and ancillary services such as customer support and product return. Owing to the explosion of database-driven, cookie-using dot-coms (of the sort that can now deduce that you are, in fact, a dog), the term is now also used to describe sites made up of static HTML pages that contain not much more than contact info and mission statements. The term suggests that the company is small, irrelevant to the web, local in scope, clueless, broke, just starting out, or some combination thereof. Many new companies without product, funding, or even staff, post brochureware with investor info and press releases to help publicise their ventures. As of December 1999, examples include pop.com and cdradio.com. Small-timers that really have no business on the web such as lawncare companies and divorce laywers inexplicably have brochureware made that stays unchanged for years.
- bronchospasm — an abnormal contraction of the bronchi resulting in restriction of the airway
- brown hackle — an artificial fly having a peacock herl body, golden tag and tail, and brown hackle.
- cache memory — a small area of memory in a computer that can be accessed very quickly
- cachinnatory — Pertaining to loud or immoderate laughter.
- camera phone — A camera phone is a mobile phone that can also take photographs.
- camphor ball — mothball
- camphor tree — a lauraceous evergreen E Asian tree, Cinnamomum camphora, whose aromatic wood yields camphor
- camphorating — Present participle of camphorate.
- cancerphobia — an excessive fear of getting cancer
- candleholder — a candlestick
- carbocholine — carbachol.
- carbohydrase — a digestive enzyme that breaks down carbohydrates through hydrolysis
- carbohydrate — Carbohydrates are substances, found in certain kinds of food, that provide you with energy. Foods such as sugar and bread that contain these substances can also be referred to as carbohydrates.
- carbon brush — a small block of carbon used to convey current between the stationary and moving parts of an electric generator, motor, etc
- cardiographs — Plural form of cardiograph.
- cardiography — electrocardiograph.
- cardiophobia — An inordinate fear of heart disease.
- carpophagous — feeding on fruit
- cartographer — A cartographer is a person whose job is drawing maps.
- cartographic — Of or pertaining to the making of maps.
- cartoonishly — in a cartoonish manner
- case history — A person's case history is the record of past events or problems that have affected them, especially their medical history.
- cash journal — cashbook.
- cataphoreses — Plural form of cataphoresis.
- cataphoresis — electrophoresis
- catastrophal — (rare) Catastrophic.
- catastrophes — Plural form of catastrophe.
- catastrophic — Something that is catastrophic involves or causes a sudden terrible disaster.
- cathetometer — an instrument measuring minute height differences
- cathiodermie — a beauty treatment for the skin, which involves using electrotherapy
- cathode rays — a stream of electrons emitted from the surface of a cathode in a valve
- cathodograph — a picture taken using cathode rays
- caught short — having a sudden need to urinate or defecate
- cephalometer — an instrument for positioning the human head for X-ray examination in cephalometry
- cephalometry — measurement of the dimensions of the human head by radiography: used mainly in orthodontics
- ceramography — the study, analysis, and preparation of ceramic microstructures, usually for industrial use
- cerebropathy — A hypochondriacal condition verging upon insanity, occurring in those whose brains have been unduly taxed.