13-letter words containing a, r, c, h, l
- balch springs — a town in NE Texas.
- bell purchase — a tackle consisting of two standing single blocks, two running single blocks, a fall, and a runner, so arranged that it gives a mechanical advantage of six, neglecting friction.
- bibliographic — a complete or selective list of works compiled upon some common principle, as authorship, subject, place of publication, or printer.
- bibliothecary — a librarian
- black hickory — a species of smooth-barked hickory, Carya tomentosa, with fragrant foliage that turns bright yellow in autumn
- black panther — (in the US) a member of a militant Black political party (1965–82) founded to end the political dominance of White people
- black-hearted — evil, malicious, or wicked
- brachycranial — brachycephalic
- brachydactyly — abnormal shortness of the fingers and toes.
- breech-loader — a firearm that is loaded at the breech
- breechloading — loaded at the breech.
- burnham scale — the salary scale for teachers in English state schools, which is revised periodically
- cacographical — Synonym of cacographic.
- calabash tree — a tropical American evergreen tree, Crescentia cujete, that produces large round gourds: family Bignoniaceae
- call the turn — to predict successfully
- calligraphist — fancy penmanship, especially highly decorative handwriting, as with a great many flourishes: She appreciated the calligraphy of the 18th century.
- candleholders — Plural form of candleholder.
- candlelighter — a person whose task it is to light candles
- carboxymethyl — (organic chemistry) The univalent radical -CH2-COOH derived from acetic acid.
- card clothing — a very sturdy fabric with a leather or rubber fillet imbedded with wire teeth for disentangling and cleaning textile fibers, used to cover the rollers or flats of a carding machine.
- cardinal fish — a small brightly coloured fish found in shallow tropical seas, of the family Apogonidae, the male of which often broods eggs in its mouth
- carnegie hall — a famous concert hall in New York (opened 1891); endowed by Andrew Carnegie
- carrantuohill — a mountain in SW Republic of Ireland, in Macgillicuddy's Reeks in Kerry: the highest peak in Ireland. Height: 1041 m (3414 ft)
- carte blanche — If someone gives you carte blanche, they give you the authority to do whatever you think is right.
- caryophyllene — (organic compound) A sesquiterpene (containing a cyclobutane ring) found in the essential oils of several plants such as clove and pepper.
- castle howard — a mansion near York in Yorkshire: designed in 1700 by Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor; the grounds include the Temple of the Four Winds and a mausoleum
- cathartically — of or relating to catharsis.
- cephalometric — Relating to cephalometrics.
- cephaloridine — a cephalosporin antibiotic often used in the treatment of bacterial infections
- cephalosporin — any of a group of broad-spectrum antibiotics obtained from fungi of the genus Cephalosporium
- cephalothorax — the anterior part of many crustaceans and some other arthropods consisting of a united head and thorax
- chalicotheres — Plural form of chalicothere.
- chancelleries — Plural form of chancellery.
- channel ferry — a ship that shuttles across the English Channel between the UK and the continent
- chaparral pea — a thorny leguminous Californian shrub, Pickeringia montana, with reddish-purple showy flowers
- chapel de fer — a medieval open helmet, often having a broad brim for deflecting blows from above.
- characterless — If you describe something as characterless, you mean that it is dull and uninteresting.
- charcoal grey — a very dark grey colour
- chargeability — that may or should be charged: chargeable duty.
- charitability — Charitableness.
- charlatanical — of or relating to a charlatan, pretentious
- charlatanries — Plural form of charlatanry.
- charles abbot — Charles Greeley, 1872–1973, U.S. astrophysicist.
- charles fries — Charles Carpenter, 1887–1967, U.S. linguist.
- charles lever — Charles James ("Cornelius O'Dowd") 1806–72, Irish novelist and essayist.
- charles louis — (Karl Ludwig Johann) 1771–1847, archduke of Austria.
- charles lyell — Sir Charles, 1797–1875, English geologist.
- charles swart — Charles Robberts [rob-erts] /ˈrɒb ərts/ (Show IPA), 1894–1982, South African statesman: president 1961–67.
- charles's law — the statement that for a body of ideal gas at constant pressure the volume is directly proportional to the absolute temperature
- charley horse — People sometimes refer to a cramp in the muscles of their leg or arm as a charley horse.