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11-letter words containing t, h, o, r, a

  • bartholomew — one of the twelve apostles (Matthew 10:3). Feast day: Aug 24 or June 11
  • basset horn — an obsolete woodwind instrument of the clarinet family
  • bath oliver — a kind of unsweetened biscuit
  • bathometers — Plural form of bathometer.
  • beanshooter — peashooter
  • behaviorist — the theory or doctrine that human or animal psychology can be accurately studied only through the examination and analysis of objectively observable and quantifiable behavioral events, in contrast with subjective mental states.
  • blameworthy — deserving disapproval or censure
  • boat anchor — 1. Like doorstop but more severe; implies that the offending hardware is irreversibly dead or useless. "That was a working motherboard once. One lightning strike later, instant boat anchor!" 2. A person who just takes up space. 3. Obsolete but still working hardware, especially when used of an old S100-bus hobbyist system; originally a term of annoyance, but became more and more affectionate as the hardware became more and more obsolete.
  • boldhearted — courageous or daring; intrepid.
  • botheration — bother
  • brachiation — locomotion accomplished by swinging by the arms from one hold to another.
  • brachyodont — (of mammals, such as humans) having teeth with short crowns
  • breathe out — When you breathe out, you send air out of your lungs through your nose or mouth.
  • bright coal — coal consisting of alternating layers of clarain and vitrain.
  • 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.
  • brood patch — a highly vascular, featherless area developed on the abdomen of certain brooding birds that is in direct contact with eggs during incubation and provides additional warmth.
  • brown earth — an intrazonal soil of temperate humid regions typically developed under deciduous forest into a dark rich layer (mull): characteristic of much of southern and central England
  • brown heart — a brown discoloration of the flesh of stored apples, resulting from high concentrations of carbon dioxide.
  • brown patch — a fungus disease of turf grass that results in circular areas of brown, dead grass.
  • brunch coat — a knee-length housecoat.
  • butorphanol — a narcotic analgesic, C 21 H 29 NO 2 , administered by injection to treat moderate to severe pain.
  • cachinatory — Alternative form of cachinnatory.
  • cachinnator — One who laughs loudly and immoderately.
  • 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.
  • calathiform — cup-shaped; concave.
  • calochortus — any plant of the genus Calochortus, of the lily family, as the mariposa lily and the sego lily.
  • camphorated — impregnated or combined with camphor
  • camphorates — Plural form of camphorate.
  • cardiopathy — a heart disease or disorder
  • carpet moth — any of several geometrid moths with black- (or brown-)and-white mottled wings
  • cartography — Cartography is the art or activity of drawing maps and geographical charts.
  • cartophilic — relating to cartophily
  • cast anchor — to anchor a vessel
  • catastrophe — A catastrophe is an unexpected event that causes great suffering or damage.
  • catastrophy — Alternative form of catastrophe.
  • cathode ray — a flow of electrons emanating from a cathode in a vacuum tube and focused into a narrow beam.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • charactonym — a name given to a literary character that is descriptive of a quality or trait of the character.
  • charioteers — Plural form of charioteer.
  • charlestown — oldest part of Boston, at the mouth of the Charles River: site of the battle of Bunker Hill
  • chart house — a room or deckhouse for storing and working with charts, navigational instruments, etc.
  • chartaceous — of the nature of paper; papery
  • chateauroux — a town in central France: 10th-century castle (Château-Raoul). Pop: 46 386 (2009)
  • chatterbots — Plural form of chatterbot.
  • chevrotains — Plural form of chevrotain.
  • child actor — an actor who is a child
  • chiromantic — relating to chiromancy
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