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12-letter words containing c, h, o, r, a

  • 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.
  • gothic armor — white armor of the 15th century, marked especially by much fluting and ornamentation.
  • grace hopper — (person)   US Navy Rear Admiral Grace Brewster Hopper (1906-12-09 to 1992-01-01), née Grace Brewster Murray. Hopper is believed to have concieved the concept of the compiler with the A-0 in 1952. She also developed the first commercial high-level language, which eventually evolved into COBOL. She worked on the Mark I computer with Howard Aiken and with BINAC in 1949. She is credited with having coined the term "debug", and the adage "it is always easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission" (with various wordings), which has been the guiding principle in sysadmin decisions ever since. See also the entries debug and bug. Hopper is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. In 1994, the US Navy named a new ship, the guided-missile destroyer USS Hopper, after her.
  • grade school — an elementary school that has its pupils grouped or classified into grades.
  • graphophonic — a phonograph for recording and reproducing sounds on wax records.
  • grass hockey — field hockey.
  • haemorrhagic — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of hemorrhagic.
  • hagiocracies — Plural form of hagiocracy.
  • hagiographic — Of or pertaining to hagiography.
  • haircoloring — dye or tint for the hair.
  • half-covered — to be or serve as a covering for; extend over; rest on the surface of: Snow covered the fields.
  • hall process — a process in which aluminum is refined by electrolytic reduction of alumina fused with cryolite.
  • hallucinator — One whose judgment and acts are affected by hallucinations; one who errs on account of his hallucinations.
  • halobacteria — Plural form of halobacterium.
  • halotrichite — a mineral, iron alum, isomorphous with pickeringite, occurring in the form of yellowish fibers.
  • haricot bean — Haricot beans are small white beans that are eaten as a vegetable. They are often sold dried rather than fresh.
  • haricot vert — green bean.
  • hark back to — recall: earlier era
  • harmonic law — any one of three laws governing planetary motion: each planet revolves in an ellipse, with the sun at one focus; the line connecting a planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal periods of time (law of areas) or the square of the period of revolution of each planet is proportional to the cube of the semimajor axis of the planet's orbit (harmonic law)
  • harmonically — pertaining to harmony, as distinguished from melody and rhythm.
  • harmonichord — a musical instrument resembling an upright piano intended to fuse the sound of a violin with the functionality of a piano, the tone therefore produced using friction rather than through striking
  • harpsichords — Plural form of harpsichord.
  • helicobacter — Any member of the Helicobacter bacteria.
  • helicographs — Plural form of helicograph.
  • heliographic — a device for signaling by means of a movable mirror that reflects beams of light, especially sunlight, to a distance.
  • hemerocallis — the genus comprising the day lilies.
  • hemichordate — belonging or pertaining to the chordates of the phylum Hemichordata, comprising small, widely distributed, marine animals, as the acorn worms.
  • henceforward — from now on; from this point forward.
  • heroic drama — Restoration tragedy, especially that popular in England c1660–1700, using highly rhetorical language and written in heroic couplets.
  • heroicomical — blending heroic and comic elements: a heroicomic poem.
  • heterocercal — having an unequally divided tail, characteristic of sharks, rays, and skates.
  • heterodactyl — having the first and fourth toes directed backward, and the second and third forward, as in trogons.
  • heterosocial — relating to or denoting mixed-sex social relationships
  • heterotactic — of, relating to, or characterized by heterotaxis.
  • hexacarbonyl — (inorganic chemistry) Any compound having six carbonyl groups.
  • hexachloride — a chloride containing six atoms of chlorine.
  • hidrocystoma — An adenoma of the sweat glands.
  • hierocracies — Plural form of hierocracy.
  • hierographic — of or relating to hierographs
  • hierophantic — (in ancient Greece) an official expounder of rites of worship and sacrifice.
  • hippocentaur — Centaur.
  • hippocrepian — (of an aquatic organism or plant) shaped like a horseshoe
  • hire company — a company that hires things out to people
  • histographic — a treatise on or description of organic tissues.
  • historically — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
  • histrionical — (British) Alternative form of histrionic.
  • holophrastic — using or consisting of a single word that functions as a phrase or sentence.
  • home teacher — private tutor
  • homoromantic — Romantically attracted to those of the same gender.
  • horn balance — an extension of an aircraft control surface that projects in front of the hinge providing aerodynamic assistance in moving the control
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