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11-letter words containing b, a, r, c, h

  • chatterbots — Plural form of chatterbot.
  • checker cab — a taxi with a checked pattern as part of the trim
  • cheeseboard — A cheeseboard is a board from which cheese is served at a meal.
  • cherishable — to hold or treat as dear; feel love for: to cherish one's native land.
  • chess-board — the board, identical with a checkerboard, used for playing chess.
  • chessboards — Plural form of chessboard.
  • chief rabbi — the chief religious minister of a national Jewish community
  • child labor — the regular, full-time employment of children under a legally defined age in factories, stores, offices, etc.: in the U.S., the minimum legal age under federal law is 16 (in hazardous occupations, 18)
  • chrysarobin — a tasteless odourless powder containing anthraquinone derivatives of araroba, formerly used medicinally to treat chronic skin conditions
  • chupacabras — Plural form of chupacabra.
  • cohabitator — One who cohabits.
  • cold harbor — a locality in Virginia, NE of Richmond: Civil War battle in 1864.
  • cooch behar — a former state of NE India: part of West Bengal since 1950
  • coprophobia — an abnormal fear of feces.
  • corbel arch — a construction like an arch but composed of masonry courses corbeled until they meet.
  • cyberphobia — an irrational fear of computers
  • dithyrambic — of, relating to, or of the nature of a dithyramb, or an impassioned oration.
  • featherback — any freshwater fish of the family Notopteridae, of Asia and western Africa, having a small, feathery dorsal fin and a very long anal fin extending from close behind the head to the tip of the tail.
  • francophobe — Also, Francophobic. fearing or hating France, the French people, and French culture, products, etc.
  • french bean — British. the pod of a green bean or wax bean, eaten as a vegetable.
  • gas chamber — an enclosure used for the execution of prisoners by means of a poisonous gas.
  • germaphobic — Alternative form of germophobic.
  • hackberries — Plural form of hackberry.
  • halocarbons — Plural form of halocarbon.
  • harken back — hearken back (see phrase under hearken)
  • heart block — a defect in the electrical impulses of the heart resulting in any of various arrhythmias or irregularities in the heartbeat.
  • hermit crab — any of numerous crabs, especially of the genera Pagurus and Eupagurus, that protect their soft uncovered abdomen by occupying the castoff shell of a univalve mollusk.
  • hibernacula — Plural form of hibernaculum.
  • hudibrastic — of, relating to, or resembling the style of Samuel Butler's Hudibras (published 1663–78), a mock-heroic poem written in tetrameter couplets.
  • hydrocarbon — any of a class of compounds containing only hydrogen and carbon, as an alkane, methane, CH 4 , an alkene, ethylene, C 2 H 4 , an alkyne, acetylene, C 2 H 2 , or an aromatic compound, benzene, C 6 H 6 .
  • hypercarbia — (medicine) the condition of having an abnormally high concentration of carbon dioxide in the blood.
  • in chambers — in the privacy of a judge's chambers
  • interbranch — a division or subdivision of the stem or axis of a tree, shrub, or other plant.
  • ion chamber — an apparatus for detecting and analyzing ionizing radiation, consisting of a vessel filled with a gas at normal or lower than normal pressure and fitted with two electrodes such that the current between the electrodes is a function of the amount of ionization of the gas.
  • labyrinthic — of, relating to, or resembling a labyrinth.
  • leatherback — a sea turtle, Dermochelys coriacea, having the shell embedded in a leathery skin, reaching a length of more than 7 feet (2.1 meter) and a weight of more than 1000 pounds (450 kg): the largest living sea turtle; an endangered species.
  • lochaber ax — a Scottish battle-ax of the 16th century, having a tall, cleaverlike blade with a hook at its upper end.
  • long branch — a city in E New Jersey: seaside resort.
  • lophobranch — belonging or pertaining to the Lophobranchii, the group of fishes comprising the pipefishes, sea horses, snipefishes, trumpetfishes, etc.
  • lord cobham — title of Sir John Oldcastle
  • lubavitcher — a member of a missionary Hasidic movement founded in the 1700s by Rabbi Shneour Zalman of Lyady.
  • lucha libre — a form of freestyle wrestling originating in Mexico
  • lunch break — pause for midday meal
  • mach number — a number indicating the ratio of the speed of an object to the speed of sound in the medium through which the object is moving. Abbreviation: M.
  • malebranche — Nicolas de [nee-kaw-lah duh] /ni kɔˈlɑ də/ (Show IPA), 1638–1715, French philosopher.
  • march break — a school holiday, usually for a week, during March
  • march brown — an angler's name for the dun and spinner of various mayflies or an artificial fly imitating one of these
  • matchboards — Plural form of matchboard.
  • necrophobia — an abnormal fear of death; thanatophobia.
  • neo-hebraic — Hebrew as spoken and written since the Diaspora
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