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12-letter words containing a, r, c, h

  • archipallium — (anatomy) The oldest region of the brain's pallium, often considered contiguous with the olfactory cortex, but varying among species. In humans, the archipallium makes up the hippocampus.
  • archipelagic — a large group or chain of islands: the Malay Archipelago.
  • archipelagos — Plural form of archipelago.
  • archiphoneme — an abstract linguistic unit representing two or more phonemes when the distinction between these has been neutralized: conventionally shown by a capital letter within slashes, as /T/ for /t/ and /d/ in German Rat and Rad
  • architecting — a person who engages in the profession of architecture.
  • architecture — Architecture is the art of planning, designing, and constructing buildings.
  • archive file — a single computer file that contains one or more files that have been compressed
  • archive site — (networking)   (Or "FTP site", "FTP archive") An Internet host where program source, documents, e-mail or news messages are stored for public access via anonymous FTP, Gopher, web or other document distribution system. There may be several archive sites (mirrors) for, e.g., a Usenet newsgroup though one may be recognised as the main one. FTP servers were common on the Internet for about ten years but have been largely replaced by web servers since the invention of the World-Wide Web and its HTTP protocol. Some well-known archive sites included Imperial College, UK, UUNET, USA, GNU archive site. The archie service attempted to index the contents of FTP archives, foreshadowing the indexing of the web by Google and others.
  • archosaurian — belonging to or characteristic of the archosaurs
  • arctophilist — a collector of teddy bears
  • arena chapel — a private chapel in Padua containing a fresco cycle painted (1305–06) by Giotto.
  • aristolochia — any of various plants of the genus Aristolochia of the family Aristolochiaceae
  • aristophanic — 448?–385? b.c, Athenian comic dramatist.
  • arithmetical — Arithmetical calculations, processes, or skills involve the addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division of numbers.
  • armada chest — an iron or iron-bound strongbox of the 17th or 18th century.
  • arming chest — a chest for holding armor and weapons.
  • arthrobacter — a genus of rod-shaped or spherical bacteria found in the soil.
  • arthropathic — disease of the joints.
  • arthroscopes — Plural form of arthroscope.
  • arthroscopic — the use of an arthroscope to diagnose an injury to or disease of a joint or to perform minor surgery on a joint.
  • ash-coloured — silver-grey in colour
  • asphalt rock — a rock formation, usually of limestone or sandstone, containing large amounts of bitumens.
  • astrochemist — (chemistry, astronomy) A chemist or astronomer whose speciality is astrochemistry.
  • astrophysics — Astrophysics is the study of the physical and chemical structure of the stars, planets, and other natural objects in space.
  • asynchronies — a lack of synchronism or coincidence in time.
  • asynchronism — a lack of synchronism; occurrence at different times
  • asynchronous — An asynchronous electric machine is one in which the magnetic field and the rotation are not exactly the same.
  • at a stretch — with some difficulty; by making a special effort
  • atheoretical — having no connection with and not founded on theory
  • athrocytosis — the capability of a cell to receive and store matter
  • atmospherics — Atmospherics are elements in something such as a piece of music or a book which create a certain atmosphere.
  • autochangers — Plural form of autochanger.
  • autorhythmic — That generates its own rhythm.
  • autorickshaw — (in India) a light three-wheeled vehicle driven by a motorcycle engine
  • azithromycin — A macrolide antibiotic derived from erythromycin.
  • bach trumpet — a modern small three-valved trumpet for playing clarino passages in Bach's music
  • bachelor pad — a flat in which a bachelor lives
  • bachelorette — A bachelorette is a woman who has never married.
  • bachelorhood — the state of being a bachelor.
  • bachelorship — the state of being a bachelor; bachelorhood
  • back stretch — the straight part of a race track opposite the part leading to the finish line.
  • backbenchers — Plural form of backbencher.
  • bag snatcher — a thief whose main tactic is to grab women's handbags and run off with them
  • baluchithere — a hornless rhinoceros of the extinct genus Baluchitherium that inhabited central Asia during the Oligocene and early Miocene epochs: the largest land mammal known.
  • bandersnatch — a fictional creature created by Lewis Carroll in his poem Jabberwocky, and appearing also in The Hunting of the Snark and Through the Looking-Glass
  • bank charges — penalties charged by a bank to a customer, for example when the customer's account is overdrawn or if a cheque is not honoured
  • barber chair — a chair used by barbers, adjustable in height and having an adjustable headrest, back, and footrest.
  • barrel chair — a kind of upholstered chair with an upright, rounded back
  • basket chair — a chair made of wickerwork; a wicker chair
  • bathochromic — denoting or relating to a shift to a longer wavelength in the absorption spectrum of a compound
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