10-letter words containing c, h, r, o
- arch board — a distinctive area at the upper part of a stern, curving upward toward the center and giving the name and port of the vessel within a carved and painted frame; escutcheon.
- archbishop — In the Roman Catholic, Orthodox, and Anglican Churches, an archbishop is a bishop of the highest rank, who is in charge of all the bishops and priests in a particular country or region.
- archdeacon — An archdeacon is a high-ranking clergyman who works as an assistant to a bishop, especially in the Anglican church.
- archegonia — the female reproductive organ in ferns, mosses, etc.
- archemorus — Opheltes.
- archeocyte — (in sponges) a type of amoebocyte capable of developing into other types of cells, especially reproductive cells.
- archeology — archaeology
- archeozoic — early Precambrian; Archean
- archespore — the cell or group of cells in a sporangium that gives rise to spores
- archipenko — Aleksandr Porfiryevich (alɪkˈsandr parˈfirjɪvitʃ). 1887– 1964, Russian sculptor and painter, in the US after 1923, whose work is characterized by economy of form
- archivolts — Plural form of archivolt.
- archontate — an archon's period in office
- archoplasm — the protoplasmic material surrounding the centrosome, formerly thought to be involved in the formation of the asters and spindle during mitosis
- archosaurs — Plural form of archosaur.
- 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
- artichokes — Plural form of artichoke.
- asynchrony — a lack of synchronism or coincidence in time.
- autochrome — a material once used for color photography, consisting of a photographic emulsion applied over a multicolored screen of minute starch grains dyed red, green, and blue-violet.
- auxochrome — a group of atoms that can be attached to a chromogen to convert it into a dye
- bachelor's — a person who has been awarded a bachelor's degree.
- bar kochba — Simeon. died 135 ad, Jewish leader who led an unsuccessful revolt against the Romans in Palestine
- 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
- baroswitch — a switch actuated by barometric pressure.
- bcs theory — Physics. a general quantum theory of superconductivity that describes many properties of superconducting materials.
- beachfront — A beachfront house, café, shop, or hotel is situated on or by a beach.
- beachgoers — Plural form of beachgoer.
- bee orchid — a European orchid, Ophrys apifera, whose flower resembles a bumble bee in shape and colour
- beechdrops — a North American flowering plant, Epifagus virginiana, which is parasitic on beech trees
- bench work — work done at a workbench, worktable, etc., as in a factory or laboratory.
- bichloride — a binary compound containing two atoms of chlorine for each atom of another element; dichloride
- bichromate — dichromate
- biographic — of or relating to a person's life: He's gathering biographical data for his book on Milton.
- biomorphic — having the form of a living organism
- biospheric — relating to the biosphere
- blackthorn — a thorny Eurasian rosaceous shrub, Prunus spinosa, with black twigs, white flowers, and small sour plumlike fruits
- boccherini — Luigi (luˈidʒi). 1743–1805, Italian composer and cellist
- bog orchid — an orchid, Hammarbya (or Malaxis) paludosa, growing in sphagnum bogs in the N hemisphere. It has greenish-yellow flowers and its leaves bear a fringe of tiny bulbils
- bon marche — a bargain.
- box wrench — a wrench with a completely enclosed head, used to hold and turn nuts and bolts
- brachiator — any primate which swings by its arms from one hold to the next
- brachiopod — any marine invertebrate animal of the phylum Brachiopoda, having a ciliated feeding organ (lophophore) and a shell consisting of dorsal and ventral valves
- brachydome — a dome whose face is parallel to the brachydiagonal axis in a crystal
- brachylogy — a concise style in speech or writing
- branch off — A road or path that branches off from another one starts from it and goes in a slightly different direction. If you branch off somewhere, you change the direction in which you are going.
- branch out — If a person or an organization branches out, they do something that is different from their normal activities or work.
- brno chair — an armchair designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1930, having a cantilevered frame of chromium-plated or stainless steel composed of two interlocking parts, one forming the legs and arms and the other the seat and back frame, with the back and seat lightly upholstered and usually covered with leather.
- broadcloth — fabric woven on a wide loom