10-letter words containing c, h, l, a
- archeology — archaeology
- archetypal — Someone or something that is archetypal has all the most important characteristics of a particular kind of person or thing and is a perfect example of it.
- archiblast — egg protoplasm
- archiplasm — archoplasm
- archivolts — Plural form of archivolt.
- archoplasm — the protoplasmic material surrounding the centrosome, formerly thought to be involved in the formation of the asters and spindle during mitosis
- archrivals — Plural form of archrival.
- arctophile — a person who collects teddy bears or is fond of them
- arctophily — the practice of collecting teddy bears
- art school — tertiary level college for students of art
- arthralgic — Of, pertaining to, or suffering from arthralgia.
- aspherical — (of a reflecting surface or lens) deviating slightly from a perfectly spherical shape and relatively free from aberrations.
- attachable — to fasten or affix; join; connect: to attach a photograph to an application with a staple.
- avalanched — Simple past tense and past participle of avalanche.
- avalanches — Plural form of avalanche.
- avouchable — able to be avouched
- bacchanals — Plural form of bacchanal.
- bachelor's — a person who has been awarded a bachelor's degree.
- back light — light falling on a photographic or television subject from the rear
- back-cloth — backdrop (def 1).
- backcloths — Plural form of backcloth.
- backlashed — a sudden, forceful backward movement; recoil.
- backlasher — something or someone who produces a backlash
- backlashes — Plural form of backlash.
- backlights — Plural form of backlight.
- backsplash — any tiled area by, for example, a sink, cooker or bath to prevent damage to a wall by food or water splashes
- balanchine — George. 1904–83, US choreographer, born in Russia
- baldacchin — A rich, embroidered brocade used for clothing in the Middle Ages, the web being gold and the woof silk.
- baldachins — Plural form of baldachin.
- bark cloth — a papery fabric made from the fibrous inner bark of various trees, esp of the moraceous genus Ficus and the leguminous genus Brachystegia
- barophilic — (of living organisms) growing best in conditions of high atmospheric pressure
- basophilic — having an affinity for basic stains.
- bat chayil — (in some congregations) a ceremony of confirmation for a girl of at least Bat Mitzvah age
- batch file — a computer file with sequential commands to be executed when the file is read
- beach ball — A beach ball is a large, light ball filled with air, which people play with, especially on the beach.
- beach flea — sand hopper
- beach plum — a rosaceous shrub, Prunus maritima, of coastal regions of E North America
- beachballs — Plural form of beachball.
- bellyaches — Informal. a pain in the abdomen or bowels.
- birthplace — Your birthplace is the place where you were born.
- bitch-slap — to strike (someone) with one's open hand
- black hand — a group of Sicilian blackmailers and terrorists formed in the 1870s and operating in the US in the early 20th century
- black hawk — 1767-1838; chief of the Sauk people: leader in the Black Hawk War against the U.S. (1832)
- black heat — heat emitted by an electric element made from low-resistance thick wire that does not glow red
- black hole — Black holes are areas in space, where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape from them. Black holes are thought to be formed by collapsed stars.
- black sash — (formerly, in South Africa) an organization of women opposed to apartheid
- black shag — a large dark-coloured shag, Phalacrocorax carbo novaehollandis, of Australasian waters
- blackheart — an abnormal darkening of the woody stems of some plants, thought to be caused by extreme cold
- blackheath — a residential district in SE London, mainly in the boroughs of Lewisham and Greenwich: a large heath formerly notorious for highwaymen
- blackpatch — a disease of red and white clover, caused by an unidentified fungus and characterized by brown or blackish lesions on the plant.