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10-letter words containing r, a, n, c, h

  • athermancy — an inability to transmit radiant heat or infrared radiation
  • backhander — A backhander is an amount of money that is illegally paid to someone in a position of authority in order to encourage them to do something.
  • batrachian — any amphibian, esp a frog or toad
  • beachfront — A beachfront house, café, shop, or hotel is situated on or by a beach.
  • bench mark — a surveyor's mark made on a permanent landmark of known position and altitude: it is used as a reference point in determining other altitudes
  • blackthorn — a thorny Eurasian rosaceous shrub, Prunus spinosa, with black twigs, white flowers, and small sour plumlike fruits
  • bon marche — a bargain.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • bunchgrass — grass that grows in tufts
  • caipirinha — A Brazilian cocktail made with cachaca, lime or lemon juice, sugar, and crushed ice.
  • 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
  • card punch — keypunch (def 1).
  • card-punch — Also, key punch. Also called card punch. a machine, operated by a keyboard, for coding information by punching holes in cards or paper tape in specified patterns.
  • cardphones — Plural form of cardphone.
  • carhopping — the practice of serving customers at a drive-in restaurant
  • carmarthen — a market town in S Wales, the administrative centre of Carmarthenshire: Norman castle. Pop: 14 648 (2001)
  • carragheen — Irish moss.
  • carthamine — a yellow or red dye obtained from safflower
  • carthusian — a member of an austere monastic order founded by Saint Bruno in 1084 near Grenoble, France
  • cartoonish — like a cartoon, esp in being one-dimensional, brightly coloured, or exaggerated
  • caseharden — to form a hard, thin surface on (an iron alloy)
  • cashiering — to dismiss (a military officer) from service, especially with disgrace.
  • cat-harpin — any of a number of short ropes or rods for gathering in shrouds near their tops.
  • catarrhine — (of apes and Old World monkeys) having the nostrils set close together and opening to the front of the face
  • cfortran.h — (library)   A transparent, machine independent interface between C and Fortran routines and global data, developed by Burkhard Burow at CERN. It provides macros which allow the C preprocessor to translate a simple description of a C (Fortran) routine or global data into a Fortran (C) interface. Version 2.6 runs on VAX/VMS/Ultrix, DECstation, Silicon Graphics, IBM RS/6000, Sun, Cray, Apollo, HP9000, LynxOS, f2c, NAG f90. cfortran.h was reviewed in RS/Magazine November 1992 and a user's experiences with cfortran.h are described in the Jan 93 issue of Computers in Physics.
  • chadderton — a town in NW England, in Oldham unitary authority, in Greater Manchester. Pop: 33 001 (2001)
  • chaffering — Present participle of chaffer.
  • chagrining — Present participle of chagrin.
  • chagrinned — a feeling of vexation, marked by disappointment or humiliation.
  • chain fern — any of several ferns of the genus Woodwardia, having a chainlike row of sori on either side of the midrib of each fertile leaflet.
  • chain gear — a gear assembly in which motion is transmitted by means of a chain.
  • chain rule — a theorem that may be used in the differentiation of the function of a function. It states that du/dx = (du/dy)(dy/dx), where y is a function of x and u a function of y
  • chain-work — any decorative product, handiwork, etc., in which parts are looped or woven together, like the links of a chain.
  • chainbrake — a device for cutting off the power to a chainsaw if the saw kicks back
  • chairborne — having an administrative or desk job rather than a more active one
  • chairbound — unable to walk; dependent on a wheelchair for mobility
  • chairwoman — The chairwoman of a meeting, committee, or organization is the woman in charge of it.
  • chairwomen — Plural form of chairwoman.
  • challenger — A challenger is someone who competes with you for a position or title that you already have, for example being a sports champion or a political leader.
  • chambering — a room, usually private, in a house or apartment, especially a bedroom: She retired to her chamber.
  • chamberlin — ˈThomas Chrowder (ˈkraʊdər ) ; krouˈdər) 1843-1928; U.S. geologist
  • chambertin — a dry red burgundy wine produced in Gevrey-Chambertin in E France
  • chambranle — the three-sided ornamental bordering found around doors, windows, and fireplaces
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