14-letter words containing r, a, n, c, h
- audience share — the percentage of households with television sets in use or tuned to a particular station during a specific period of time.
- back and forth — If someone moves back and forth, they repeatedly move in one direction and then in the opposite direction.
- back-and-forth — backward and forward; side to side; to and fro: a back-and-forth shuttling of buses to the stadium; the back-and-forth movement of a clock's pendulum.
- backscratching — a long-handled device for scratching one's own back.
- banach algebra — (mathematics) An algebra in which the vector space is a Banach space.
- banker's check — cashier's check.
- bark chippings — small pieces of tree bark used chiefly for pathways in gardens or woodland
- bayonet charge — a charge by riflemen with fixed bayonets
- bean bag chair — a small cloth bag filled with dried beans, as for tossing in various children's games.
- bean-bag chair — a small cloth bag filled with dried beans, as for tossing in various children's games.
- bearer channel — (communications) Originally, a channel suited for carrying one voice-grade connection. Typically a DS0 channel. Compare data channel. (1997-03-7)
- benzanthracene — a carcinogenic hydrocarbon
- birthing chair — a chair constructed to allow a woman in labour to give birth in a sitting position
- black panthers — (in the US) a militant Black political party founded in 1965 to end the political dominance of White people
- board chairman — the chairman of the board of a company, etc
- boolean search — (information science) (Or "Boolean query") A query using the Boolean operators, AND, OR, and NOT, and parentheses to construct a complex condition from simpler criteria. A typical example is searching for combinatons of keywords on a web search engine. Examples: car or automobile "New York" and not "New York state" The term is sometimes stretched to include searches using other operators, e.g. "near". Not to be confused with binary search. See also: weighted search.
- boring machine — a machine that bores holes, tunnels, etc
- bornyl alcohol — white solid alcohol from a Malaysian tree
- brachydiagonal — the shorter lateral axis of a rhombic prism
- brachypinakoid — the side parallel to the shorter horizontal axis in a crystal
- branch manager — a person who manages the local branch of a bank, shop, or other business
- branch officer — (in the British navy since 1949) any officer who holds warrant
- branched chain — an open chain of atoms with one or more side chains attached to it
- branchial arch — Zoology. one of a series of bony or cartilaginous arches on each side of the pharynx that support the gills of fishes and aquatic amphibians; gill bar.
- branchiostegal — of or relating to the operculum covering the gill slits of fish
- braunschweiger — a smoked liver sausage, named after the city of Braunschweig
- breech-loading — (of a firearm) loaded at the breech
- bronchial tube — Your bronchial tubes are the two tubes which connect your windpipe to your lungs.
- bronchiectasis — chronic dilation of the bronchi or bronchial tubes, which often become infected
- bronchodilator — any drug or other agent that causes dilation of the bronchial tubes by relaxing bronchial muscle: used, esp in the form of aerosol sprays, for the relief of asthma
- bronchorrhagia — hemorrhage from the bronchial tubes.
- bronchospastic — of or relating to bronchospasms
- burschenschaft — a students' fraternity, originally one concerned with Christian ideals, patriotism, etc
- bush carpenter — a rough-and-ready unskilled workman
- calendar month — A calendar month is one of the twelve months of the year.
- calendar watch — a watch that indicates date of the month, day of the week, etc., as well as the time.
- canonical hour — one of the seven prayer times appointed for each day by canon law
- captain crunch — 1. (person) ("Cap'n Crunch") An early 1970s hacker/phreaker/phacker who used a free whistle included with "Cap'n Crunch" breakfast cereal to fake pay phone system tones and make large quantities of free phone calls. Also alludes to "crunch". 2. (After the above) wardialer. 3. Reportedly, a program which crashes a computer by overloading the interrupt stack.
- carnarvonshire — Caernarvon.
- carpenter moth — any of various large moths of the family Cossidae, the larvae of which bore beneath and cause damage to tree bark
- carpet muncher — lesbian
- cartoonishness — The state or condition of being cartoonish.
- cash dispenser — A cash dispenser is a machine built into the wall of a bank or other building, which allows people to take out money from their bank account using a special card.
- cash-and-carry — A cash-and-carry is a large shop where you can buy goods in larger quantities and at lower prices than in ordinary shops. Cash-and-carries are mainly used by people in business to buy goods for their shops or companies.
- catchment area — The catchment area of a school, hospital, or other service is the area that it serves.
- catherine parr — Catherine, Catherine Parr.
- cellular phone — A cellular phone or cellular telephone is a type of telephone which does not need wires to connect it to a telephone system.
- centrolecithal — (of animal eggs) having a centrally located yolk
- cephalosporins — Plural form of cephalosporin.
- chain pickerel — See under pickerel (def 1).