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12-letter words containing a, c, h

  • breechloader — any gun loaded at the breech
  • breuer chair — a chair with a frame of continuous chrome tubing, no back legs, and cane seat and back
  • bridge chair — a lightweight folding chair, often part of a set of matching chairs and bridge table.
  • brigham city — a city in N Utah.
  • 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.
  • buccaneerish — of or relating to a buccaneer
  • bushwhacking — to make one's way through woods by cutting at undergrowth, branches, etc.
  • cabbage moth — a common brownish noctuid moth, Mamestra brassicae, the larva of which is destructive of cabbages and other plants
  • cable length — a unit of length in nautical use that has various values, including 100 fathoms (600 feet)
  • cable stitch — a pattern or series of knitting stitches producing a design like a twisted rope
  • cable-stitch — a series of stitches used in knitting to produce a cable effect.
  • cache memory — a small area of memory in a computer that can be accessed very quickly
  • cachinnating — Present participle of cachinnate.
  • cachinnation — raucous laughter
  • cachinnatory — Pertaining to loud or immoderate laughter.
  • cacophonical — cacophonous
  • cacophonious — cacophonous
  • cadent house — any of the four houses that precede the angles: the third, sixth, ninth, and twelfth houses, which correspond, respectively, to neighborhood and relatives, work and health, philosophy and foreign travel, and secret matters and service to others.
  • cadet branch — the family or family branch of a younger son
  • cadet school — a training establishment for cadets in the army
  • calisthenics — Calisthenics are simple exercises that you can do to keep fit and healthy.
  • calligraphed — Simple past tense and past participle of calligraph.
  • calligrapher — A calligrapher is a person skilled in the art of calligraphy.
  • calligraphic — fancy penmanship, especially highly decorative handwriting, as with a great many flourishes: She appreciated the calligraphy of the 18th century.
  • callisthenes — c360–327 b.c, Greek philosopher: chronicled Alexander the Great's conquests.
  • callisthenic — Alternative spelling of calisthenic.
  • calycanthemy — the abnormal development of the calyx of a flower into a structure resembling a corolla
  • cam ranh bay — an inlet of the South China Sea, on the SE coast of Vietnam: U. S. military facility during the Vietnam War.
  • camel's hair — the hair of the camel
  • camel's-hair — made of camel's hair.
  • camera phone — A camera phone is a mobile phone that can also take photographs.
  • campaign hat — a felt hat with a broad, stiff brim and four dents in the crown, formerly worn by personnel in the U.S. Army and Marine Corps.
  • camphor ball — mothball
  • camphor tree — a lauraceous evergreen E Asian tree, Cinnamomum camphora, whose aromatic wood yields camphor
  • camphorating — Present participle of camphorate.
  • campshedding — to line (the bank of a river) with campshot.
  • can't happen — (programming)   The traditional program comment for code executed under a condition that should never be true, for example a file size computed as negative. Often, such a condition being true indicates data corruption or a faulty algorithm; it is almost always handled by emitting a fatal error message and terminating or crashing, since there is little else that can be done. Some case variant of "can't happen" is also often the text emitted if the "impossible" error actually happens. Although "can't happen" events are genuinely infrequent in production code, programmers wise enough to check for them habitually are often surprised at how frequently they are triggered during development and how many headaches checking for them turns out to head off. See also firewall code, professional programming.
  • cancerphobia — an excessive fear of getting cancer
  • candlefishes — Plural form of candlefish.
  • candleholder — a candlestick
  • canine tooth — canine (def 2).
  • cantharidian — cantharidal
  • canvas chair — a chair in which the seat and back are made from canvas
  • canvas shoes — soft shoes with a canvas upper
  • cap'n crunch — Captain Crunch
  • cape agulhas — a headland in South Africa, the southernmost point of the African continent
  • cape dezhnev — a cape in NE Russia at the E end of Chukchi Peninsula: the northeasternmost point of Asia
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