12-letter words containing c, h, a, n, e
- architecting — a person who engages in the profession of architecture.
- arena chapel — a private chapel in Padua containing a fresco cycle painted (1305–06) by Giotto.
- arming chest — a chest for holding armor and weapons.
- asynchronies — a lack of synchronism or coincidence in time.
- authenticate — If you authenticate something, you state officially that it is genuine after examining it.
- authenticity — the quality or state of being authentic; reliability; genuineness
- autochangers — Plural form of autochanger.
- autochthones — Alternative spelling of autochthons.
- back channel — an unofficial, often secret, means of communication
- back-kitchen — a room off a main kitchen, usually further towards the back of the house where washing-up or preparatory cooking work might be done; a scullery
- backbenchers — Plural form of backbencher.
- backhandedly — In a backhanded manner.
- bag snatcher — a thief whose main tactic is to grab women's handbags and run off with them
- banach space — a vector space on which a norm is defined that is complete.
- 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
- baton charge — A baton charge is an attacking forward movement made by a large group of policemen carrying batons.
- beachcombing — The action of a beachcomber.
- beacon light — a light signal for shipping
- bechuanaland — former British territory (1884-1966) in S Africa: now the country of Botswana
- beech marten — stone marten.
- behenic acid — a crystalline, saturated fatty acid, C 22 H 44 O 2 , obtained from plant sources, used chiefly in the manufacture of cosmetics, waxes, and plasticizers.
- belly-aching — Informal. a pain in the abdomen or bowels.
- bench-warmer — a substitute who rarely gets to play in a game.
- benchmarking — In business, benchmarking is a process in which a company compares its products and methods with those of the most successful companies in its field, in order to try to improve its own performance.
- beyond reach — inaccessible
- biomechanics — the study of the mechanics of the movement of living organisms
- biotechnical — relating to biotechnology
- black heroin — a very potent and addictive form of heroin that is dark-colored.
- blank cheque — If someone is given a blank cheque, they are given the authority to spend as much money as they need or want.
- bonne chance — good luck
- bounce flash — a flash lamp designed to produce a bounced flash.
- bound charge — any electric charge that is bound to an atom or molecule (opposed to free charge).
- branch depot — one of a several depots receiving stock from the same central supplier
- branch water — water from a stream, as opposed to mineral or soda water
- braunschweig — Brunswick
- brown hackle — an artificial fly having a peacock herl body, golden tag and tail, and brown hackle.
- buccaneerish — of or relating to a buccaneer
- cable length — a unit of length in nautical use that has various values, including 100 fathoms (600 feet)
- cadent house — any of the four houses that precede the angles: the third, sixth, ninth, and twelfth houses, which correspond, respectively, to neighborhood and relatives, work and health, philosophy and foreign travel, and secret matters and service to others.
- cadet branch — the family or family branch of a younger son
- calisthenics — Calisthenics are simple exercises that you can do to keep fit and healthy.
- callisthenes — c360–327 b.c, Greek philosopher: chronicled Alexander the Great's conquests.
- callisthenic — Alternative spelling of calisthenic.
- calycanthemy — the abnormal development of the calyx of a flower into a structure resembling a corolla
- camera phone — A camera phone is a mobile phone that can also take photographs.
- campshedding — to line (the bank of a river) with campshot.
- can't happen — (programming) The traditional program comment for code executed under a condition that should never be true, for example a file size computed as negative. Often, such a condition being true indicates data corruption or a faulty algorithm; it is almost always handled by emitting a fatal error message and terminating or crashing, since there is little else that can be done. Some case variant of "can't happen" is also often the text emitted if the "impossible" error actually happens. Although "can't happen" events are genuinely infrequent in production code, programmers wise enough to check for them habitually are often surprised at how frequently they are triggered during development and how many headaches checking for them turns out to head off. See also firewall code, professional programming.
- cancerphobia — an excessive fear of getting cancer
- candlefishes — Plural form of candlefish.