12-letter words containing b, e, a, c, h
- charlesbourg — city in S Quebec, Canada: pop. 71,000
- chartbusters — Plural form of chartbuster.
- chatterboxes — Plural form of chatterbox.
- checkerboard — A checkerboard is a square board with 64 black and white squares that is used for playing checkers or chess.
- cheese board — A cheese board is a board from which cheese is served at a meal.
- cheeseboards — Plural form of cheeseboard.
- chenin blanc — a white grape grown in the Loire region of France and in South Africa, California, New Zealand, and elsewhere, used for making wine
- chequerboard — Alternative spelling of checkerboard.
- cherubically — In a cherubic way.
- child abuser — someone who abuses a child, esp someone convicted of this
- childbearing — Childbearing is the process of giving birth to babies.
- chimneyboard — a partition or a cover to shut off a fireplace
- chinaberries — Plural form of chinaberry.
- coachbuilder — (historical) A builder of horse-drawn coaches.
- cyberathlete — a professional player of computer games
- cymbocephaly — scaphocephaly.
- dasher block — a block at the end of a yard or gaff for supporting a signal or ensign halyard.
- debaucheries — Plural form of debauchery.
- debaucherous — tending toward or involving debauchery, or excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures: a night of debaucherous fun.
- decipherable — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
- delray beach — a city in SE Florida.
- dibranchiate — of, relating to, or belonging to the Dibranchiata, a group or former order of cephalopod molluscs, including the octopuses, squids, and cuttlefish, having two gills
- dispatchable — Capable of being dispatched.
- echo chamber — a room or studio with resonant walls for broadcasting or recording echoes or hollow sound effects.
- elasmobranch — A cartilaginous fish of a group that comprises the sharks, rays, and skates.
- embranchment — A branching forth, as of trees for example.
- exchangeable — Able to be exchanged.
- featherbacks — Plural form of featherback.
- franchisable — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- french bread — a yeast-raised bread made of dough containing water and distinguished by its thick, well-browned crust, usually made in long, slender, tapered loaves. Compare baguette (def 3).
- french broad — a river in W North Carolina and E Tennessee, flowing N and NW to join the Holston River at Knoxville to form the Tennessee River. 210 miles (338 km) long.
- global reach — When people talk about the global reach of a company or industry, they mean its ability to have customers in many different parts of the world.
- halobacteria — Plural form of halobacterium.
- handicapable — (politically correct) disabled or handicapped.
- hardscrabble — providing or yielding meagerly in return for much effort; demanding or unrewarding: the hardscrabble existence of mountainside farmers.
- haricot bean — Haricot beans are small white beans that are eaten as a vegetable. They are often sold dried rather than fresh.
- head balance — headstand.
- hearken back — to go back in thought or speech; revert; hark back
- hebephreniac — a person suffering from hebephrenia
- helicobacter — Any member of the Helicobacter bacteria.
- herbicidally — from a herbicidal point of view
- hexacarbonyl — (inorganic chemistry) Any compound having six carbonyl groups.
- hibernaculum — a protective case or covering, especially for winter, as of an animal or a plant bud.
- horn balance — an extension of an aircraft control surface that projects in front of the hinge providing aerodynamic assistance in moving the control
- hull balance — (of a sailing ship) the property of maintaining satisfactory trim and steering qualities when heeled at a normal angle.
- hyperbolical — having the nature of hyperbole; exaggerated.
- in the black — lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
- incharitable — Obsolete form of uncharitable.
- inter-branch — a division or subdivision of the stem or axis of a tree, shrub, or other plant.
- laguna beach — a town in S California.