10-letter words containing a, c, h, r
- brachyuran — any decapod crustacean of the group (formerly suborder) Brachyura, which includes the crabs
- brainchild — Someone's brainchild is an idea or invention that they have thought up or created.
- branch cut — a method for selecting a single-valued function on a subset of the domain of a multiple-valued function of a complex variable.
- branch off — A road or path that branches off from another one starts from it and goes in a slightly different direction. If you branch off somewhere, you change the direction in which you are going.
- branch out — If a person or an organization branches out, they do something that is different from their normal activities or work.
- branchiate — having gills.
- brickearth — a clayey alluvium suitable for the making of bricks: specifically, such a deposit in southern England, yielding a fertile soil
- brno chair — an armchair designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1930, having a cantilevered frame of chromium-plated or stainless steel composed of two interlocking parts, one forming the legs and arms and the other the seat and back frame, with the back and seat lightly upholstered and usually covered with leather.
- broadcloth — fabric woven on a wide loom
- bruschetta — Bruschetta is a slice of toasted bread which is brushed with olive oil and usually covered with chopped tomatoes.
- bunchgrass — grass that grows in tufts
- burckhardt — Jacob Christoph. 1818–97, Swiss art and cultural historian; author of The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy (1860)
- cacography — bad handwriting
- cacotrophy — malnutrition
- caecotroph — (biology) In certain mammals, especially rabbits and some rodents, a cake or pellet of food which is produced by means of digestion and expulsion through the anus.
- caerphilly — a market town in SE Wales, in Caerphilly county borough: site of the largest castle in Wales (13th–14th centuries). Pop: 31 060 (2001)
- caipirinha — A Brazilian cocktail made with cachaca, lime or lemon juice, sugar, and crushed ice.
- caligraphy — Alternative form of calligraphy.
- call forth — to cause (something) to come into action or existence
- calligraph — to produce by means of calligraphy: The love letter was calligraphed in a delicate hand.
- camel hair — the hair of the camel, used especially for cloth, painters' brushes, and Oriental rugs.
- camel-hair — A camel-hair coat is made of a kind of soft, thick woollen cloth, usually creamy-brown in colour.
- camelshair — (attributive) The hair of a camel, used for paintbrushes etc.
- camera-shy — Someone who is camera-shy is nervous and uncomfortable about being filmed or about having their photograph taken.
- camp chair — a lightweight folding chair
- camp shirt — a short-sleeved shirt or blouse with a notched collar and usually two breast pockets.
- campership — financial aid given to a needy youngster to attend summer camp.
- camphorate — to apply, treat with, or impregnate with camphor
- cane chair — a chair, the back and seat of which are made of interlaced strips of cane.
- canephoros — in ancient Greece, any of the maidens who carried on her head a basket holding the sacred things used at feasts
- cape wrath — a promontory at the NW extremity of the Scottish mainland
- cape-wrath — Cape, a high promontory in NW Scotland: most NW point on mainland.
- carchemish — an ancient city in Syria on the Euphrates, lying on major trade routes; site of a victory of the Babylonians over the Egyptians (605 bc)
- card punch — keypunch (def 1).
- card shark — an expert card player
- card-punch — Also, key punch. Also called card punch. a machine, operated by a keyboard, for coding information by punching holes in cards or paper tape in specified patterns.
- cardholder — A cardholder is someone who has a bank card or credit card.
- cardphones — Plural form of cardphone.
- cardsharps — Plural form of cardsharp.
- careership — An approach to career-related decision-making, combining rationality, interactions with others, and responses to sometimes unpredictable events.
- cargo ship — a ship carrying cargo
- carhopping — the practice of serving customers at a drive-in restaurant
- carmarthen — a market town in S Wales, the administrative centre of Carmarthenshire: Norman castle. Pop: 14 648 (2001)
- carmichael — Hoaglund Howard (ˈhəʊɡlənd), known as Hoagy. 1899–1981, US pianist, singer, and composer of such standards as "Star Dust" (1929)
- carphology — the action of grasping at imaginary objects or plucking at one's bed linen, a characteristic of people affected by delirium
- carpophore — the central column surrounded by carpels in such flowers as the geranium
- carragheen — Irish moss.
- cart horse — A cart horse is a large, powerful horse that is used to pull carts or farm machinery.
- carthamine — a yellow or red dye obtained from safflower
- carthorses — Plural form of carthorse.