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10-letter words containing h, a, r

  • brainchild — Someone's brainchild is an idea or invention that they have thought up or created.
  • brake shoe — the curved metal casting to which the brake lining is riveted in a drum brake
  • 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.
  • brandished — to shake or wave, as a weapon; flourish: Brandishing his sword, he rode into battle.
  • bread shop — a baker's shop
  • break with — to end a relationship or association with (someone or an organization or social group)
  • breathable — A breathable fabric allows air to pass through it easily, so that clothing made from it does not become too warm or uncomfortable.
  • breathe in — When you breathe in, you take some air into your lungs.
  • breathless — If you are breathless, you have difficulty in breathing properly, for example because you have been running or because you are afraid or excited.
  • brickearth — a clayey alluvium suitable for the making of bricks: specifically, such a deposit in southern England, yielding a fertile soil
  • bridgehead — A bridgehead is a good position which an army has taken in the enemy's territory and from which it can advance or attack.
  • brigandish — a bandit, especially one of a band of robbers in mountain or forest regions.
  • 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.
  • broadbrush — lacking full detail or information; incomplete or rough
  • broadcloth — fabric woven on a wide loom
  • broadsheet — A broadsheet is a newspaper that is printed on large sheets of paper. Broadsheets are generally considered to be more serious than other newspapers. Compare tabloid.
  • brookhaven — a town in SW Mississippi.
  • bruschetta — Bruschetta is a slice of toasted bread which is brushed with olive oil and usually covered with chopped tomatoes.
  • bull shark — a requiem shark, Carcharhinus leucas, inhabiting shallow waters from North Carolina to Brazil.
  • bunchgrass — grass that grows in tufts
  • burckhardt — Jacob Christoph. 1818–97, Swiss art and cultural historian; author of The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy (1860)
  • bursarship — a scholarship or grant awarded esp in Scottish and New Zealand schools, universities etc
  • burushaski — a language of NW Kashmir, not known to be related to any other language.
  • bush grass — a coarse reedlike grass, Calamagrostis epigejos, 1–11⁄2 metres (3–41⁄2 ft) high that grows on damp clay soils in Europe and temperate parts of Asia
  • bushbeater — a person who conducts a thorough search to recruit talented people, as for an athletic team.
  • bushhammer — a hammer with small pyramids projecting from its working face, used for dressing stone
  • bushmaster — a large greyish-brown highly venomous snake, Lachesis muta, inhabiting wooded regions of tropical America: family Crotalidae (pit vipers)
  • bushranger — an escaped convict or robber living in the bush
  • bushwalker — a person who hikes through bushland
  • cacography — bad handwriting
  • cacotrophy — malnutrition
  • caecotroph — (biology) In certain mammals, especially rabbits and some rodents, a cake or pellet of food which is produced by means of digestion and expulsion through the anus.
  • caerphilly — a market town in SE Wales, in Caerphilly county borough: site of the largest castle in Wales (13th–14th centuries). Pop: 31 060 (2001)
  • caipirinha — A Brazilian cocktail made with cachaca, lime or lemon juice, sugar, and crushed ice.
  • caligraphy — Alternative form of calligraphy.
  • call forth — to cause (something) to come into action or existence
  • calligraph — to produce by means of calligraphy: The love letter was calligraphed in a delicate hand.
  • camel hair — the hair of the camel, used especially for cloth, painters' brushes, and Oriental rugs.
  • camel-hair — A camel-hair coat is made of a kind of soft, thick woollen cloth, usually creamy-brown in colour.
  • camelshair — (attributive) The hair of a camel, used for paintbrushes etc.
  • camera-shy — Someone who is camera-shy is nervous and uncomfortable about being filmed or about having their photograph taken.
  • camp chair — a lightweight folding chair
  • camp shirt — a short-sleeved shirt or blouse with a notched collar and usually two breast pockets.
  • campership — financial aid given to a needy youngster to attend summer camp.
  • camphorate — to apply, treat with, or impregnate with camphor
  • cane chair — a chair, the back and seat of which are made of interlaced strips of cane.
  • canephoros — in ancient Greece, any of the maidens who carried on her head a basket holding the sacred things used at feasts
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