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

  • 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
  • bench seat — a seat for more than one person
  • bench-made — (of articles made of leather, wood, etc.) individually produced and finished, as on a carpenter's bench; custom-made.
  • black hand — a group of Sicilian blackmailers and terrorists formed in the 1870s and operating in the US in the early 20th century
  • blackthorn — a thorny Eurasian rosaceous shrub, Prunus spinosa, with black twigs, white flowers, and small sour plumlike fruits
  • bon marche — a bargain.
  • bone china — Bone china is a kind of thin china that contains powdered bone.
  • 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.
  • buchenwald — a village in E central Germany, near Weimar; site of a Nazi concentration camp (1937–45)
  • buchmanism — the principles or the international movement of Moral Re-Armament or of the Oxford Group, or belief in or adherence to them.
  • buckingham — a town in S central England, in Buckinghamshire; university (1975). Pop: 12 512 (2001)
  • bull chain — a chain for dragging logs to a sawmill.
  • bunchgrass — grass that grows in tufts
  • cabin hook — a hook and eye for fastening a cabinet door or the like.
  • cache line — (storage)   (Or cache block) The smallest unit of memory than can be transferred between the main memory and the cache. Rather than reading a single word or byte from main memory at a time, each cache entry is usually holds a certain number of words, known as a "cache line" or "cache block" and a whole line is read and cached at once. This takes advantage of the principle of locality of reference: if one location is read then nearby locations (particularly following locations) are likely to be read soon afterward. It can also take advantage of page-mode DRAM which allows faster access to consecutive locations.
  • cachinnate — to laugh loudly
  • cackhanded — left-handed
  • cacophonic — Discordant.
  • caipirinha — A Brazilian cocktail made with cachaca, lime or lemon juice, sugar, and crushed ice.
  • can't help — If you say you can't help thinking something, you are expressing your opinion in an indirect way, often because you think it seems rude.
  • candlefish — a salmonoid food fish, Thaleichthys pacificus, that occurs in the N Pacific and has oily flesh
  • 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
  • canophilia — the love of dogs
  • canophobia — an abnormal fear of dogs
  • capnophile — (biology) A microorganism that requires or grows best in presence of high concentrations of carbon dioxide.
  • 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)
  • cash bonus — an extra amount of money given to someone for doing something good, over and above the amount that is normally paid for that achievement
  • cash in on — to get profit or profitable use from
  • cash money — cash, as distinguished from a check or money order.
  • cashew nut — edible nut
  • cashiering — to dismiss (a military officer) from service, especially with disgrace.
  • cashpoints — Plural form of cashpoint.
  • casinghead — the protruding part of a casing to which piping is attached
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