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12-letter words containing t, h, e, c, a

  • architecting — a person who engages in the profession of architecture.
  • architecture — Architecture is the art of planning, designing, and constructing buildings.
  • archive site — (networking)   (Or "FTP site", "FTP archive") An Internet host where program source, documents, e-mail or news messages are stored for public access via anonymous FTP, Gopher, web or other document distribution system. There may be several archive sites (mirrors) for, e.g., a Usenet newsgroup though one may be recognised as the main one. FTP servers were common on the Internet for about ten years but have been largely replaced by web servers since the invention of the World-Wide Web and its HTTP protocol. Some well-known archive sites included Imperial College, UK, UUNET, USA, GNU archive site. The archie service attempted to index the contents of FTP archives, foreshadowing the indexing of the web by Google and others.
  • arithmetical — Arithmetical calculations, processes, or skills involve the addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division of numbers.
  • armada chest — an iron or iron-bound strongbox of the 17th or 18th century.
  • arming chest — a chest for holding armor and weapons.
  • arthrobacter — a genus of rod-shaped or spherical bacteria found in the soil.
  • arthroscopes — Plural form of arthroscope.
  • astrochemist — (chemistry, astronomy) A chemist or astronomer whose speciality is astrochemistry.
  • at a stretch — with some difficulty; by making a special effort
  • atheological — having an aversion or resistance to theology
  • atheoretical — having no connection with and not founded on theory
  • athletically — physically active and strong; good at athletics or sports: an athletic child.
  • atmospherics — Atmospherics are elements in something such as a piece of music or a book which create a certain atmosphere.
  • attache case — An attaché case is a flat case for holding documents.
  • authenticate — If you authenticate something, you state officially that it is genuine after examining it.
  • authenticity — the quality or state of being authentic; reliability; genuineness
  • autochangers — Plural form of autochanger.
  • autochthones — Alternative spelling of autochthons.
  • autotheistic — Self-worshiping; prideful in the extreme.
  • bach trumpet — a modern small three-valved trumpet for playing clarino passages in Bach's music
  • bachelorette — A bachelorette is a woman who has never married.
  • back stretch — the straight part of a race track opposite the part leading to the finish line.
  • back-kitchen — a room off a main kitchen, usually further towards the back of the house where washing-up or preparatory cooking work might be done; a scullery
  • backstitches — Plural form of backstitch.
  • bag snatcher — a thief whose main tactic is to grab women's handbags and run off with them
  • baluchithere — a hornless rhinoceros of the extinct genus Baluchitherium that inhabited central Asia during the Oligocene and early Miocene epochs: the largest land mammal known.
  • bandersnatch — a fictional creature created by Lewis Carroll in his poem Jabberwocky, and appearing also in The Hunting of the Snark and Through the Looking-Glass
  • basic weight — basis weight.
  • basket catch — a catch made with open glove with the palm up and the wrist kept close to and in front of the body.
  • basket chair — a chair made of wickerwork; a wicker chair
  • bathetically — in a bathetic fashion
  • bathtub race — a sailing race between bathtubs fitted with outboard motors
  • bathypelagic — of, relating to, or inhabiting the lower depths of the ocean between approximately 1000 and 4000 metres
  • bathyscaphes — Plural form of bathyscaphe.
  • baton charge — A baton charge is an attacking forward movement made by a large group of policemen carrying batons.
  • beacon light — a light signal for shipping
  • beaver cloth — beaver1 (def 8).
  • beech marten — stone marten.
  • bell the cat — to undertake a very dangerous mission
  • bibliothecal — relating to a bibliotheca
  • bicycle path — a path designed for bicyclists
  • biotechnical — relating to biotechnology
  • bird watcher — a person who identifies and observes birds in their natural habitat as a recreation.
  • bird-watcher — A bird-watcher is a person whose hobby is watching and studying wild birds in their natural surroundings.
  • blackhearted — wicked; evil
  • block heater — an electrically operated immersion heater fitted either to enter the water hose or the water jacket surrounding the cylinder block of a motor to warm the coolant in cold weather.
  • blue catfish — a large freshwater catfish, Ictalurus furcatus, that is a popular food fish in the states of the Mississippi River valley.
  • book matches — safety matches made of paper and fastened into a small cardboard folder
  • branch depot — one of a several depots receiving stock from the same central supplier
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