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11-letter words containing r, h, a, g

  • bar-hopping — Informal. to go to a succession of bars or nightclubs, with a brief stay at each.
  • barographic — Measured using a barograph.
  • bathygraphy — The scientific description of the depth of the ocean.
  • beach grass — any of a genus (Ammophila) of deeply rooted, tough, perennial grasses that grow on sandy beaches and are often planted to combat beach erosion
  • beach ridge — a ridge just inland from a beach, consisting of sand and gravel built up by storm waves
  • bibliograph — to put in a bibliography.
  • big-hearted — If you describe someone as big-hearted, you think they are kind and generous, and always willing to help people.
  • biographize — to write a biography of (someone)
  • bokhara rug — a Turkoman rug having a tan or red background and decorated with varied octagon patterns.
  • brachialgia — pain in the nerves of the upper arm.
  • brachiating — Botany. having widely spreading branches in alternate pairs.
  • brake light — a red light attached to the rear of a motor vehicle that lights up when the brakes are applied, serving as a warning to following drivers
  • brattishing — decorative work along the coping or on the cornice of a building
  • bright coal — coal consisting of alternating layers of clarain and vitrain.
  • bright idea — suggestion: clever
  • bukhara rug — a kind of rug, typically having a black-and-white geometrical pattern on a reddish ground
  • bunch grass — any of various grasses that grow in tufts
  • bushranging — the life of a bushranger
  • cacographic — Displaying the properties of bad spelling or bad handwriting or both.
  • calligraphy — Calligraphy is the art of producing beautiful handwriting using a brush or a special pen.
  • cardiograph — an instrument for recording the mechanical force and form of heart movements
  • cardophagus — a donkey
  • carry light — a searchlight used to illuminate a target while it is tracked and fired upon.
  • cartography — Cartography is the art or activity of drawing maps and geographical charts.
  • castlereagh — a district of E Northern Ireland, in Co Down. Pop: 66 076 (2003 est). Area: 85 sq km (33 sq miles)
  • cephalogram — An X-ray of the craniofacial area.
  • chain grate — a type of mechanical stoker for a furnace, in which the grate consists of an endless chain that draws the solid fuel into the furnace as it rotates
  • challengers — Plural form of challenger.
  • chamber mug — a chamber pot.
  • chandlering — the work of a chandler
  • change over — If you change over from one thing to another, you stop doing one thing and start doing the other.
  • changemaker — a person or thing that changes bills or coins for ones of smaller denominations.
  • changeovers — Plural form of changeover.
  • changeround — the process of changing position
  • 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.
  • charge card — A charge card is a plastic card that you use to buy goods on credit from a particular store or group of stores. Compare credit card.
  • charge with — to impose or ask as a price or fee: That store charges $25 for leather gloves.
  • chargebacks — Plural form of chargeback.
  • chargrilled — Simple past tense and past participle of chargrill.
  • charlemagne — ?742–814 ad, king of the Franks (768–814) and, as Charles I, Holy Roman Emperor (800–814). He conquered the Lombards (774), the Saxons (772–804), and the Avars (791–799). He instituted many judicial and ecclesiastical reforms, and promoted commerce and agriculture throughout his empire, which extended from the Ebro to the Elbe. Under Alcuin his court at Aachen became the centre of a revival of learning
  • chaulmoogra — a tropical Asian tree, Taraktogenos (or Hydnocarpus) kurzii: family Flacourtiaceae
  • che guevara — Ernesto [er-nes-taw] /ɛrˈnɛs tɔ/ (Show IPA), ("Che") 1928–67, Cuban revolutionist and political leader, born in Argentina.
  • chemigraphy — any technique for making engravings or etchings using chemicals and without the aid of photography.
  • chirography — handwriting; penmanship
  • chirurgical — relating to, carrying out or expert in surgery
  • choir organ — a part of the full church organ, used for accompanying the choir
  • chord organ — an electronic organ having a small keyboard for the right hand and for the left hand a set of buttons each of which produces a full chord when pushed.
  • choreograph — When someone choreographs a ballet or other dance, they invent the steps and movements and tell the dancers how to perform them.
  • chorography — the technique of mapping regions
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