10-letter words containing c, h
- blackthorn — a thorny Eurasian rosaceous shrub, Prunus spinosa, with black twigs, white flowers, and small sour plumlike fruits
- blockhouse — (formerly) a wooden fortification with ports or loopholes for defensive fire, observation, etc
- boat patch — an oval patch for plywood, terminating in a point at each end.
- boccherini — Luigi (luˈidʒi). 1743–1805, Italian composer and cellist
- body check — the fair block of an opponent who has the puck by bumping with the body, shoulder to hip, from the front or side
- body punch — a blow to the body of an opponent
- 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
- bomb ketch — Nautical. a ketch-rigged vessel of the 17th and 18th centuries, carrying heavy mortars for firing bombs.
- bon marche — a bargain.
- bone china — Bone china is a kind of thin china that contains powdered bone.
- book match — a match in or from a matchbook.
- 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
- brachyaxis — the shorter lateral axis of a monoclinic, orthorhombic, or triclinic crystal
- brachydome — a dome whose face is parallel to the brachydiagonal axis in a crystal
- brachylogy — a concise style in speech or writing
- brachyuran — any decapod crustacean of the group (formerly suborder) Brachyura, which includes the crabs
- brainchild — Someone's brainchild is an idea or invention that they have thought up or created.
- branch cut — a method for selecting a single-valued function on a subset of the domain of a multiple-valued function of a complex variable.
- 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.
- branchiate — having gills.
- breechless — having no breeches or trousers; bare-bottomed
- brickearth — a clayey alluvium suitable for the making of bricks: specifically, such a deposit in southern England, yielding a fertile soil
- 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
- brockhouse — Bertram Neville, 1918–2003, Canadian physicist: Nobel Prize 1994.
- bronchiole — any of the smallest bronchial tubes, usually ending in alveoli
- bronchitic — acute or chronic inflammation of the membrane lining of the bronchial tubes, caused by respiratory infection or exposure to bronchial irritants, as cigarette smoke.
- bronchitis — Bronchitis is an illness like a very bad cough, in which your bronchial tubes become sore and infected.
- bruschetta — Bruschetta is a slice of toasted bread which is brushed with olive oil and usually covered with chopped tomatoes.
- bucephalus — the favourite horse of Alexander the Great
- buchenwald — a village in E central Germany, near Weimar; site of a Nazi concentration camp (1937–45)
- buchmanism — the principles or the international movement of Moral Re-Armament or of the Oxford Group, or belief in or adherence to them.
- buck teeth — upper front teeth which stick out
- buckingham — a town in S central England, in Buckinghamshire; university (1975). Pop: 12 512 (2001)
- bull chain — a chain for dragging logs to a sawmill.
- bunch pink — sweet william.
- bunchberry — a dwarf variety of dogwood native to North America, Cornus canadensis, having red berries
- bunchgrass — grass that grows in tufts
- bunny chow — a dish consisting of a hollowed-out loaf of bread filled with curry
- burchfield — Charles Ephraim, 1893–1967, U.S. painter.
- burckhardt — Jacob Christoph. 1818–97, Swiss art and cultural historian; author of The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy (1860)
- bust chops — Usually, chops. the jaw.
- cabin hook — a hook and eye for fastening a cabinet door or the like.
- cablephoto — a photographic image transmitted via cable, especially for use by newspapers or in police work.
- cache line — (storage) (Or cache block) The smallest unit of memory than can be transferred between the main memory and the cache. Rather than reading a single word or byte from main memory at a time, each cache entry is usually holds a certain number of words, known as a "cache line" or "cache block" and a whole line is read and cached at once. This takes advantage of the principle of locality of reference: if one location is read then nearby locations (particularly following locations) are likely to be read soon afterward. It can also take advantage of page-mode DRAM which allows faster access to consecutive locations.
- cache miss — (storage) A request to read from memory which cannot be satisfied from the cache, for which the main memory has to be consulted. Opposite: cache hit.
- cache-sexe — a small cloth or band worn, as by an otherwise nude dancer, to conceal the genitals