12-letter words containing ch
- atychiphobia — (rare) The fear of failure.
- autochangers — Plural form of autochanger.
- autochthonal — Existing where it was formed or born; native, aboriginal, indigenous.
- autochthones — Alternative spelling of autochthons.
- autochthonic — pertaining to autochthons; aboriginal; indigenous (opposed to heterochthonous).
- axiom schema — (logic) A formula in the language of an axiomatic system, containing one or more. These metasyntactic variables (or "schematic variables") that stand for terms or subformulae. An example is the Axiom of Comprehension.
- b chromosome — a type of densely staining chromosome of uncertain biological function, found in many plant and animal species.
- bacchanalian — characterized by or involving drunken revelry
- bach trumpet — a modern small three-valved trumpet for playing clarino passages in Bach's music
- bachelor pad — a flat in which a bachelor lives
- bachelorette — A bachelorette is a woman who has never married.
- bachelorhood — the state of being a bachelor.
- bachelorship — the state of being a bachelor; bachelorhood
- back channel — an unofficial, often secret, means of communication
- 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
- backbenchers — Plural form of backbencher.
- 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.
- banach space — a vector space on which a norm is defined that is complete.
- 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
- bank charges — penalties charged by a bank to a customer, for example when the customer's account is overdrawn or if a cheque is not honoured
- barber chair — a chair used by barbers, adjustable in height and having an adjustable headrest, back, and footrest.
- barrel chair — a kind of upholstered chair with an upright, rounded back
- 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
- bathochromic — denoting or relating to a shift to a longer wavelength in the absorption spectrum of a compound
- baton charge — A baton charge is an attacking forward movement made by a large group of policemen carrying batons.
- be no slouch — If you say that someone is no slouch at a particular activity, you mean that they are skilful at it or are willing to work hard at it.
- beach-comber — a person who lives by gathering salable articles of jetsam, refuse, etc., from beaches.
- beach-la-mar — an English-based creole language spoken in Vanuatu and Fiji, and formerly much more widespread
- beachcombers — Plural form of beachcomber.
- beachcombing — The action of a beachcomber.
- beaumarchais — Pierre Augustin Caron de (pjɛr oɡystɛ̃ karɔ̃ də). 1732–99, French dramatist, noted for his comedies The Barber of Seville (1775) and The Marriage of Figaro (1784)
- beche-de-mer — trepang
- bechuanaland — former British territory (1884-1966) in S Africa: now the country of Botswana
- beech marten — stone marten.
- belly-aching — Informal. a pain in the abdomen or bowels.
- bench jockey — a player on the bench who taunts opposing players, the officials, etc.
- bench-warmer — a substitute who rarely gets to play in a game.
- benchmarking — In business, benchmarking is a process in which a company compares its products and methods with those of the most successful companies in its field, in order to try to improve its own performance.
- berlichingen — Götz von (ɡœts fɔn), called the Iron Hand. 1480–1562, German warrior knight, who robbed merchants and kidnapped nobles for ransom
- beseechingly — to implore urgently: They besought him to go at once.
- beyond reach — inaccessible
- bible school — a school or study program devoted to Bible study, esp at a church
- bichon frise — a small white poodle-like dog of European origin, with a silky, loosely curling coat
- biochemistry — Biochemistry is the study of the chemical processes that happen in living things.
- biomechanics — the study of the mechanics of the movement of living organisms
- biotechnical — relating to biotechnology