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11-letter words containing a, s, h, c

  • archenemies — Plural form of archenemy.
  • archilochus — 7th century bc, Greek poet of Paros, notable for using his own experience as subject matter
  • architraves — Plural form of architrave.
  • archnemesis — A chief nemesis.
  • archpriests — Plural form of archpriest.
  • aristarchus — a crater in the NE quadrant of the moon, having a diameter of about 37 kilometres, which is the brightest formation on the moon
  • arithmetics — Plural form of arithmetic.
  • arthroscope — a tubular instrument that is inserted into the capsule of a joint to examine the joint, extract tissue, etc
  • arthroscopy — the use of an arthroscope to diagnose an injury to or disease of a joint or to perform minor surgery on a joint.
  • aschelminth — in some systems of classification, any of a phylum (Aschelminthes) of wormlike animals, including rotifers, gastrotrichs, gordian worms, and nematodes: these animals are usually considered to be in separate phyla
  • ashen-faced — Someone who is ashen-faced looks very pale, especially because they are ill, shocked, or frightened.
  • asplanchnic — having no gut
  • asthmatical — Dated form of asthmatic.
  • atheistical — pertaining to or characteristic of atheists or atheism; containing, suggesting, or disseminating atheism: atheistic literature; atheistic people.
  • athleticism — Athleticism is someone's fitness and ability to perform well at sports or other physical activities.
  • atmospheric — Atmospheric is used to describe something which relates to the Earth's atmosphere.
  • attachments — Plural form of attachment.
  • attophysics — the physics of structures and artefacts with dimensions in the attometre range or of devices, such as lasers, capable of producing pulses with a duration measured in attoseconds
  • autochthons — Plural form of autochthon.
  • bacchylides — flourished 5th century b.c, Greek poet.
  • bachelorism — bachelorhood
  • back-stitch — stitching or a stitch in which the thread is doubled back on the preceding stitch.
  • backbenches — The backbenches are the seats in the British House of Commons where backbenchers sit. The Members of Parliament who sit on the backbenches are also referred to as the backbenches.
  • backhanders — Plural form of backhander.
  • backlashing — a sudden, forceful backward movement; recoil.
  • backscratch — a favour done for someone in return for another
  • backslashed — Simple past tense and past participle of backslash.
  • backslashes — Plural form of backslash.
  • backstretch — the part of a racetrack farthest from the grandstand and opposite and parallel to the homestretch
  • backwashing — A form of water treatment in which water is pumped backwards through the filter media, sometimes with intermittent use of compressed air.
  • baluchistan — a mountainous region of SW Asia, in SW Pakistan and SE Iran
  • bathyscaphe — a navigable, submersible vessel for exploring the depths of the ocean, having a separate, overhead chamber filled with gasoline for buoyancy and iron or steel weights for ballast.
  • batrachians — Plural form of batrachian.
  • beach aster — a seaside plant, Erigeron glaucus, of the temperate western coast of North America, having solitary, violet- or lilac-colored flowers.
  • beach grass — any of a genus (Ammophila) of deeply rooted, tough, perennial grasses that grow on sandy beaches and are often planted to combat beach erosion
  • beach house — a holiday house overlooking a beach
  • beach scarp — a steep slope or miniature cliff, formed by wave action, fronting the berm on a beach.
  • beachmaster — a bull fur seal having its own territory in the breeding grounds.
  • beam search — (algorithm)   An optimisation of the best first search graph search algorithm where only a predetermined number of paths are kept as candidates. The number of paths is the "width of the beam". If more paths than this are generated, the worst paths are discarded. This reduces the space requirements of best first search.
  • bedchambers — Plural form of bedchamber.
  • bicephalous — having two heads
  • biophysical — the branch of biology that applies the methods of physics to the study of biological structures and processes.
  • bioresearch — the investigation of the nature of living organisms; biological research.
  • black hills — a group of mountains in W South Dakota and NE Wyoming: famous for the gigantic sculptures of US presidents on the side of Mount Rushmore. Highest peak: Harney Peak, 2207 m (7242 ft)
  • black house — a type of thatched house, usually made of turf, formerly found in the highlands and islands of Scotland
  • black shank — a disease of tobacco, characterized by wilting and by decayed, blackened roots and stems, caused by a fungus, Phytophthora parasitica nicotianae.
  • black sheep — If you describe someone as the black sheep of their family or of a group that they are a member of, you mean that they are considered bad or worthless by other people in that family or group.
  • black shirt — a member of any fascist organization (specif., the former Italian Fascist party) with a black-shirted uniform
  • blastochyle — the fluid in a blastocoel
  • body search — If a person is body searched, someone such as a police officer searches them while they remain clothed. Compare strip-search.
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