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11-letter words containing a, r, m, h

  • blasphemers — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
  • bodhidharma — 6th century ad, Indian Buddhist monk, who taught in China (from 520): considered to be the founder of Zen Buddhism
  • brachyprism — the four faces parallel to the brachyaxis in a crystal
  • brahmachari — a student of the Vedas, especially one committed to brahmacharya.
  • brahmajnana — jnana.
  • brahmaputra — a river in S Asia, rising in SW Tibet as the Tsangpo and flowing through the Himalayas and NE India to join the Ganges at its delta in Bangladesh. Length: about 2900 km (1800 miles)
  • brahminical — Hinduism. Brahman1 (def 1).
  • branchiform — shaped like a gill.
  • bremerhaven — a port in NW Germany: an outport for Bremen. Pop: 118 276 (2003 est)
  • brith milah — the rite of circumcision on the eighth day after birth
  • brush maker — a manufacturer or crafter of brushes
  • calathiform — cup-shaped; concave.
  • cameraphone — a mobile phone incorporating a camera
  • camphor ice — an ointment consisting of camphor, white wax, spermaceti, and castor oil, used to treat skin ailments, esp chapped skin
  • camphor oil — a colorless liquid obtained from the wood of the camphor tree by distillation and separation from the solid camphor, used in varnish, soaps, and shoe polish, and in medicine chiefly as a rubefacient.
  • camphorated — impregnated or combined with camphor
  • camphorates — Plural form of camphorate.
  • camphorweed — vinegarweed.
  • camphorwood — The wood of Cinnamomum camphora, an evergreen tree whose leaves have a smell of camphor when crushed.
  • carpet moth — any of several geometrid moths with black- (or brown-)and-white mottled wings
  • cashierment — the action of rejecting or dismissing
  • cephalogram — An X-ray of the craniofacial area.
  • ceramic hob — (on an electric cooker) a flat ceramic cooking surface having heating elements fitted on the underside, usually patterned to show the areas where heat is produced
  • chairwarmer — an office holder, committee member, or employee who is inactive and ineffective
  • chamaedorea — any of various small, slender palms of the genus Chamaedorea, several species of which are cultivated as houseplants.
  • chamber mug — a chamber pot.
  • chamber pop — pop music that incorporates orchestral arrangements
  • chamber pot — A chamber pot is a round container shaped like a very large cup. Chamber pots used to be kept in bedrooms so that people could urinate in them instead of having to leave their room during the night.
  • chamber-pot — a portable container, especially for urine, used in bedrooms.
  • chamberhand — a worker in the cold storage area of a slaughterhouse
  • chamberlain — A chamberlain is the person who is in charge of the household affairs of a king, queen, or person of high social rank.
  • chambermaid — A chambermaid is a woman who cleans and tidies the bedrooms in a hotel.
  • chamfer bit — a bit for beveling the edge of a hole.
  • champerties — Plural form of champerty.
  • champertous — a sharing in the proceeds of litigation by one who agrees with either the plaintiff or defendant to help promote it or carry it on.
  • changemaker — a person or thing that changes bills or coins for ones of smaller denominations.
  • charactonym — a name given to a literary character that is descriptive of a quality or trait of the character.
  • charchemish — an ancient city in S Turkey, on the upper Euphrates: important city in the Mitanni kingdom; later the capital of the Hittite empire.
  • charientism — (rhetoric) A figure of speech wherein a taunting expression is softened by a jest; an insult veiled in grace.
  • charismatic — A charismatic person attracts, influences, and inspires people by their personal qualities.
  • charlemagne — ?742–814 ad, king of the Franks (768–814) and, as Charles I, Holy Roman Emperor (800–814). He conquered the Lombards (774), the Saxons (772–804), and the Avars (791–799). He instituted many judicial and ecclesiastical reforms, and promoted commerce and agriculture throughout his empire, which extended from the Ebro to the Elbe. Under Alcuin his court at Aachen became the centre of a revival of learning
  • charm quark — charmed quark
  • charmlessly — in a charmless manner
  • chart music — songs that feature in the music charts
  • chaulmoogra — a tropical Asian tree, Taraktogenos (or Hydnocarpus) kurzii: family Flacourtiaceae
  • checkmarked — to indicate by a check mark.
  • cheesemaker — a person or thing that makes cheese.
  • chemigraphy — any technique for making engravings or etchings using chemicals and without the aid of photography.
  • chiromancer — A palm reader, one who practices chiromancy.
  • chiromantic — relating to chiromancy
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