11-letter words containing c, h, o, r
- bar cocheba — Simon, died a.d. 135, Hebrew leader of insurrection against the Romans a.d. 132–135.
- baranovichi — a city in W central Belarus, SW of Minsk.
- barographic — Measured using a barograph.
- baron-cohen — Sacha. born 1970, British television and film comedian, best known for his creation of the characters Ali G and Borat
- beachcomber — A beachcomber is someone who spends their time wandering along beaches looking for things they can use.
- beech grove — a grove of beech trees
- bimorphemic — pertaining to two morphemes
- bioresearch — the investigation of the nature of living organisms; biological research.
- black humor — a form of humor that regards human suffering as absurd rather than pitiable, or that considers human existence as ironic and pointless but somehow comic.
- bletcherous — /blech'*-r*s/ Disgusting in design or function; aesthetically unappealing. This word is seldom used of people. "This keyboard is bletcherous!" (Perhaps the keys don't work very well, or are misplaced.) The term bletcherous applies to the esthetics of the thing so described; similarly for cretinous. By contrast, something that is "losing" or "bagbiting" may be failing to meet objective criteria.
- block chord — a two-handed chord played usually in the middle range of the piano with the left hand duplicating or complementing the right-hand notes.
- board check — a body check in which the opponent is thrown against the wooden wall enclosing the rink. Compare check1 (def 37).
- boat anchor — 1. Like doorstop but more severe; implies that the offending hardware is irreversibly dead or useless. "That was a working motherboard once. One lightning strike later, instant boat anchor!" 2. A person who just takes up space. 3. Obsolete but still working hardware, especially when used of an old S100-bus hobbyist system; originally a term of annoyance, but became more and more affectionate as the hardware became more and more obsolete.
- body search — If a person is body searched, someone such as a police officer searches them while they remain clothed. Compare strip-search.
- body-search — to search all parts of the body of: Police ordered the suspects to strip and then body-searched them for hidden caches of narcotics.
- brachiation — locomotion accomplished by swinging by the arms from one hold to another.
- brachiosaur — any of a genus (Brachiosaurus) of huge Jurassic sauropods having longer forelegs than hind legs and nostrils high on the forehead
- brachyodont — (of mammals, such as humans) having teeth with short crowns
- brachyurous — shorttailed, as a crab (opposed to macrurous).
- branchiform — shaped like a gill.
- branchiopod — any crustacean of the mainly freshwater subclass Branchiopoda, having flattened limblike appendages for swimming, feeding, and respiration. The group includes the water fleas
- breconshire — (until 1974) a county of SE Wales, now mainly in Powys: over half its area forms the Brecon Beacons National Park
- breechblock — a metal block in breech-loading firearms that is withdrawn to insert the cartridge and replaced to close the breech before firing
- breechcloth — a cloth worn about the loins; loincloth
- breechclout — a cloth worn about the breech and loins; loincloth.
- bright coal — coal consisting of alternating layers of clarain and vitrain.
- broad reach — an act or instance of reaching: to make a reach for a gun.
- brochantite — a mineral, hydrous copper sulfate, Cu 4 (OH) 6 SO 4 , occurring in green fibrous masses and similar in physical properties to antlerite: formerly a major ore of copper.
- bronchocele — dilatation of a bronchus.
- bronx cheer — A Bronx cheer is a sound that people make by vibrating their lips in order to express disapproval or contempt.
- brood bitch — a female dog used for breeding.
- brood patch — a highly vascular, featherless area developed on the abdomen of certain brooding birds that is in direct contact with eggs during incubation and provides additional warmth.
- brood pouch — a pouch or cavity in certain animals, such as frogs and fishes, in which their eggs develop and hatch
- brown patch — a fungus disease of turf grass that results in circular areas of brown, dead grass.
- brunch coat — a knee-length housecoat.
- bunchflower — a tall plant (Melanthium virginicum) of the lily family, growing in the E U.S. and having large clusters of white or greenish flowers
- bush clover — any of several plants or shrubs belonging to the genus Lespedeza, of the legume family, having pinnately trifoliate leaves and heads of pink, purple, cream, or white flowers.
- cachinatory — Alternative form of cachinnatory.
- cachinnator — One who laughs loudly and immoderately.
- cacographic — Displaying the properties of bad spelling or bad handwriting or both.
- caecotrophy — (biology) In certain mammals, especially rabbits and other lagomorphs, the consumption of food pellets which are naturally produced by means of digestion, retention in the caecum, and expulsion through the anus.
- calathiform — cup-shaped; concave.
- calochortus — any plant of the genus Calochortus, of the lily family, as the mariposa lily and the sego lily.
- cameraphone — a mobile phone incorporating a camera
- camphor ice — an ointment consisting of camphor, white wax, spermaceti, and castor oil, used to treat skin ailments, esp chapped skin
- camphor oil — a colorless liquid obtained from the wood of the camphor tree by distillation and separation from the solid camphor, used in varnish, soaps, and shoe polish, and in medicine chiefly as a rubefacient.
- camphorated — impregnated or combined with camphor
- camphorates — Plural form of camphorate.
- camphorweed — vinegarweed.
- camphorwood — The wood of Cinnamomum camphora, an evergreen tree whose leaves have a smell of camphor when crushed.