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13-letter words containing ch

  • ballet school — a school where professional ballet dancers are trained
  • balloon chuck — a lathe chuck having the form of a hollow hemisphere, for enclosing and holding small parts, as balance staffs of watches, so that only their ends are exposed.
  • barber's itch — any of various fungal infections of the bearded portion of the neck and face
  • barrier beach — a sand ridge that rises slightly above the surface of the sea and runs roughly parallel to the shore, from which it is separated by a lagoon.
  • base exchange — a nonprofit general store at a military base, for the sale of merchandise for personal use, refreshments, etc.
  • batch-process — to perform batch processing on (files)
  • batrachotoxin — a steroidal alkaloid, C31H42N2O6, found in the skin of certain Neotropical frogs (genus Phyllobates) and used on poison arrows: one of the most powerful natural neurotoxins known
  • beached whale — large sea mammal stranded on shore
  • beacon school — a notably successful school whose methods and practices are brought to the attention of the education service as a whole in order that they may be adopted by other schools
  • beanbag chair — a chair like a large beanbag covered with vinyl, fabric, etc. and filled with foam pellets, as of polystyrene, that shift about to fit one's body
  • bear's-breech — a widely cultivated S European acanthus plant, Acanthus mollis, having whitish purple-veined flowers
  • bearer cheque — a cheque payable to the person who has it
  • bell purchase — a tackle consisting of two standing single blocks, two running single blocks, a fall, and a runner, so arranged that it gives a mechanical advantage of six, neglecting friction.
  • bench warrant — a warrant issued by a judge or court directing that an offender be apprehended
  • benching iron — a triangular, pronged plate driven into the ground to provide a temporary bench mark or turning point.
  • benefit match — a sports match organized to raise money for charity, or for a particular player
  • berbice chair — large armchair with long arms that can be folded inwards to act as leg rests
  • berchtesgaden — a town in Germany, in SE Bavaria: site of the fortified mountain retreat of Adolf Hitler. Pop: 7667 (2003 est)
  • bicycle chain — a chain that transmits power from the pedals to the driving wheel of a bicycle
  • big enchilada — enchilada (def 2).
  • binary search — (algorithm)   A search algorithm which repeatedly divides an ordered search space in half according to how the required (key) value compares with the middle element. The following pseudo-C routine performs a binary search return the index of the element of vector "thing[first..last]" equal to "target": if (target < thing[first] || target > thing[last]) return NOT_FOUND; while (first < last) { mid = (first+last)/2; /* truncate to integer */ if (target == thing[mid]) return mid; if (target < thing[mid]) last = mid-1; else first = mid+1; } if (target == thing[last]) return last; return NOT_FOUND; (2003-01-14)
  • biochemically — the science dealing with the chemistry of living matter.
  • biomechanical — relating to biomechanics
  • biopsychology — a field of psychology that deals with the effects of biological factors on behavior.
  • biotechnology — Biotechnology is the use of living parts such as cells or bacteria in industry and technology.
  • bird-watching — Bird-watching is the activity of watching and studying wild birds in their natural surroundings.
  • bitch goddess — worldly or material success personified as a goddess, especially one requiring sacrifice and being essentially destructive: He went to New York to worship the bitch goddess.
  • bitch session — a discussion in which people complain or gripe, usually about a shared experience: Their first date turned into a four-hour bitch session about their ex-spouses' lawyers.
  • bits per inch — (unit)   (BPI) A measure of the recording density of a magnetic tape or disk.
  • blanchisseuse — a washer-woman
  • blanket chest — a chest, with or without drawers, having a rectangular space under a lifting lid or top, used for storing blankets, bedding, or clothing.
  • body snatcher — (formerly) a person who robbed graves and sold the corpses for dissection
  • bois de vache — dried buffalo dung, used as fuel by Canadian and U.S. fur trappers in the 18th and 19th centuries.
  • bone-chilling — extremely cold
  • bosch process — an industrial process for manufacturing hydrogen by the catalytic reduction of steam with carbon monoxide
  • bowling match — a game of bowls
  • box stretcher — a heavy rectangular stretcher connecting successive legs of a table, chair, etc.
  • boynton beach — a city in SE Florida.
  • brachiosaurus — a dinosaur of the genus Brachiosaurus, up to 30 metres long: the largest land animal ever known
  • brachycranial — brachycephalic
  • brachydactyly — abnormal shortness of the fingers and toes.
  • brachypterous — having very short or incompletely developed wings
  • brachytherapy — a form of radiotherapy in which sealed sources of radioactive material are inserted temporarily into body cavities or directly into tumours
  • branch office — the local branch of a bank, shop, or other business
  • branch rickey — (Wesley) Branch, 1881–1965, U.S. baseball executive.
  • breech-loader — a firearm that is loaded at the breech
  • breeches buoy — a ring-shaped life buoy with a support in the form of a pair of short breeches, in which a person is suspended for safe transfer from a ship
  • breeches part — a male role played by an actress.
  • breechloading — loaded at the breech.
  • brie (cheese) — a ripened soft, white cheese made in France, or a similar cheese made elsewhere
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