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12-letter words containing c, h, a, t

  • architecting — a person who engages in the profession of architecture.
  • architecture — Architecture is the art of planning, designing, and constructing buildings.
  • archive site — (networking)   (Or "FTP site", "FTP archive") An Internet host where program source, documents, e-mail or news messages are stored for public access via anonymous FTP, Gopher, web or other document distribution system. There may be several archive sites (mirrors) for, e.g., a Usenet newsgroup though one may be recognised as the main one. FTP servers were common on the Internet for about ten years but have been largely replaced by web servers since the invention of the World-Wide Web and its HTTP protocol. Some well-known archive sites included Imperial College, UK, UUNET, USA, GNU archive site. The archie service attempted to index the contents of FTP archives, foreshadowing the indexing of the web by Google and others.
  • arctophilist — a collector of teddy bears
  • aristolochia — any of various plants of the genus Aristolochia of the family Aristolochiaceae
  • aristophanic — 448?–385? b.c, Athenian comic dramatist.
  • arithmetical — Arithmetical calculations, processes, or skills involve the addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division of numbers.
  • armada chest — an iron or iron-bound strongbox of the 17th or 18th century.
  • arming chest — a chest for holding armor and weapons.
  • arthrobacter — a genus of rod-shaped or spherical bacteria found in the soil.
  • arthropathic — disease of the joints.
  • arthroscopes — Plural form of arthroscope.
  • arthroscopic — the use of an arthroscope to diagnose an injury to or disease of a joint or to perform minor surgery on a joint.
  • asphalt rock — a rock formation, usually of limestone or sandstone, containing large amounts of bitumens.
  • astrochemist — (chemistry, astronomy) A chemist or astronomer whose speciality is astrochemistry.
  • astrophysics — Astrophysics is the study of the physical and chemical structure of the stars, planets, and other natural objects in space.
  • at a stretch — with some difficulty; by making a special effort
  • atheological — having an aversion or resistance to theology
  • atheoretical — having no connection with and not founded on theory
  • athletically — physically active and strong; good at athletics or sports: an athletic child.
  • athrocytosis — the capability of a cell to receive and store matter
  • atmospherics — Atmospherics are elements in something such as a piece of music or a book which create a certain atmosphere.
  • attache case — An attaché case is a flat case for holding documents.
  • atychiphobia — (rare) The fear of failure.
  • 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.
  • autochthonal — Existing where it was formed or born; native, aboriginal, indigenous.
  • autochthones — Alternative spelling of autochthons.
  • autochthonic — pertaining to autochthons; aboriginal; indigenous (opposed to heterochthonous).
  • autohypnotic — Of or pertaining to autohypnosis; self-hypnotizing.
  • autorhythmic — That generates its own rhythm.
  • autorickshaw — (in India) a light three-wheeled vehicle driven by a motorcycle engine
  • autotheistic — Self-worshiping; prideful in the extreme.
  • azithromycin — A macrolide antibiotic derived from erythromycin.
  • bach trumpet — a modern small three-valved trumpet for playing clarino passages in Bach's music
  • bachelorette — A bachelorette is a woman who has never married.
  • back stretch — the straight part of a race track opposite the part leading to the finish line.
  • 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
  • backlighting — Movies, Television. a light source placed behind an actor, object, or scene to create a highlight that separates the subject from the background.
  • backstitches — Plural form of backstitch.
  • backup light — Backup lights are the white lights on the back of a vehicle that shine when the vehicle moves backward.
  • bag snatcher — a thief whose main tactic is to grab women's handbags and run off with them
  • baluchithere — a hornless rhinoceros of the extinct genus Baluchitherium that inhabited central Asia during the Oligocene and early Miocene epochs: the largest land mammal known.
  • 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
  • basic weight — basis weight.
  • basket catch — a catch made with open glove with the palm up and the wrist kept close to and in front of the body.
  • basket chair — a chair made of wickerwork; a wicker chair
  • bathetically — in a bathetic fashion
  • bathochromic — denoting or relating to a shift to a longer wavelength in the absorption spectrum of a compound
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