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11-letter words containing r, e, c, h, o

  • bletcherous — /blech'*-r*s/ Disgusting in design or function; aesthetically unappealing. This word is seldom used of people. "This keyboard is bletcherous!" (Perhaps the keys don't work very well, or are misplaced.) The term bletcherous applies to the esthetics of the thing so described; similarly for cretinous. By contrast, something that is "losing" or "bagbiting" may be failing to meet objective criteria.
  • board check — a body check in which the opponent is thrown against the wooden wall enclosing the rink. Compare check1 (def 37).
  • body search — If a person is body searched, someone such as a police officer searches them while they remain clothed. Compare strip-search.
  • body-search — to search all parts of the body of: Police ordered the suspects to strip and then body-searched them for hidden caches of narcotics.
  • breconshire — (until 1974) a county of SE Wales, now mainly in Powys: over half its area forms the Brecon Beacons National Park
  • breechblock — a metal block in breech-loading firearms that is withdrawn to insert the cartridge and replaced to close the breech before firing
  • breechcloth — a cloth worn about the loins; loincloth
  • breechclout — a cloth worn about the breech and loins; loincloth.
  • broad reach — an act or instance of reaching: to make a reach for a gun.
  • brochantite — a mineral, hydrous copper sulfate, Cu 4 (OH) 6 SO 4 , occurring in green fibrous masses and similar in physical properties to antlerite: formerly a major ore of copper.
  • bronchocele — dilatation of a bronchus.
  • bronx cheer — A Bronx cheer is a sound that people make by vibrating their lips in order to express disapproval or contempt.
  • bunchflower — a tall plant (Melanthium virginicum) of the lily family, growing in the E U.S. and having large clusters of white or greenish flowers
  • bush clover — any of several plants or shrubs belonging to the genus Lespedeza, of the legume family, having pinnately trifoliate leaves and heads of pink, purple, cream, or white flowers.
  • caecotrophy — (biology) In certain mammals, especially rabbits and other lagomorphs, the consumption of food pellets which are naturally produced by means of digestion, retention in the caecum, and expulsion through the anus.
  • cameraphone — a mobile phone incorporating a camera
  • camphor ice — an ointment consisting of camphor, white wax, spermaceti, and castor oil, used to treat skin ailments, esp chapped skin
  • camphorated — impregnated or combined with camphor
  • camphorates — Plural form of camphorate.
  • camphorweed — vinegarweed.
  • canoe birch — paper birch.
  • card hopper — a device that allows cards of varying thicknesses to be fed individually through an outlet opening in a printer without adjustment
  • cardholders — Plural form of cardholder.
  • carpet moth — any of several geometrid moths with black- (or brown-)and-white mottled wings
  • carpophores — Plural form of carpophore.
  • catastrophe — A catastrophe is an unexpected event that causes great suffering or damage.
  • cathode ray — a flow of electrons emanating from a cathode in a vacuum tube and focused into a narrow beam.
  • cell theory — a basic tenet of modern biology, first stated by Matthias Schleiden and Theodor Schwann in 1838–39, that cells are the basic units of structure and function in living organisms.
  • cephalogram — An X-ray of the craniofacial area.
  • ceramic hob — (on an electric cooker) a flat ceramic cooking surface having heating elements fitted on the underside, usually patterned to show the areas where heat is produced
  • chain store — A chain store is one of several similar shops that are owned by the same person or company, especially one that sells a variety of things.
  • chairpeople — a person who presides over a meeting, committee, board, etc.
  • chairperson — The chairperson of a meeting, committee, or organization is the person in charge of it.
  • chamaedorea — any of various small, slender palms of the genus Chamaedorea, several species of which are cultivated as houseplants.
  • chamber pop — pop music that incorporates orchestral arrangements
  • chamber pot — A chamber pot is a round container shaped like a very large cup. Chamber pots used to be kept in bedrooms so that people could urinate in them instead of having to leave their room during the night.
  • chamber-pot — a portable container, especially for urine, used in bedrooms.
  • champertous — a sharing in the proceeds of litigation by one who agrees with either the plaintiff or defendant to help promote it or carry it on.
  • chancellors — Plural form of chancellor.
  • chancellory — Alternative spelling of chancellery.
  • chancellour — Archaic form of chancellor.
  • change over — If you change over from one thing to another, you stop doing one thing and start doing the other.
  • changeovers — Plural form of changeover.
  • changeround — the process of changing position
  • chansonnier — a writer of chansons
  • chaperonage — The state of being a chaperon.
  • chaperoning — a person, usually a married or older woman, who, for propriety, accompanies a young unmarried woman in public or who attends a party of young unmarried men and women.
  • chaperonins — Plural form of chaperonin.
  • charbroiled — Charbroiled meat or fish has been cooked so that it burns slightly and turns black.
  • charbroiler — a grill or other equipment used for charbroiling
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