10-letter words containing a, c, h, e
- branchiate — having gills.
- brickearth — a clayey alluvium suitable for the making of bricks: specifically, such a deposit in southern England, yielding a fertile soil
- bruschetta — Bruschetta is a slice of toasted bread which is brushed with olive oil and usually covered with chopped tomatoes.
- bucephalus — the favourite horse of Alexander the Great
- buchenwald — a village in E central Germany, near Weimar; site of a Nazi concentration camp (1937–45)
- cablephoto — a photographic image transmitted via cable, especially for use by newspapers or in police work.
- 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.
- cache miss — (storage) A request to read from memory which cannot be satisfied from the cache, for which the main memory has to be consulted. Opposite: cache hit.
- cache-sexe — a small cloth or band worn, as by an otherwise nude dancer, to conceal the genitals
- cachinnate — to laugh loudly
- cackhanded — left-handed
- caecotroph — (biology) In certain mammals, especially rabbits and some rodents, a cake or pellet of food which is produced by means of digestion and expulsion through the anus.
- caerphilly — a market town in SE Wales, in Caerphilly county borough: site of the largest castle in Wales (13th–14th centuries). Pop: 31 060 (2001)
- calabashes — Plural form of calabash.
- calciphile — calcicole.
- calciphobe — calcifuge.
- caliphates — Plural form of caliphate.
- call house — a house or apartment used by prostitutes for arranging or keeping assignations.
- camel hair — the hair of the camel, used especially for cloth, painters' brushes, and Oriental rugs.
- camel-hair — A camel-hair coat is made of a kind of soft, thick woollen cloth, usually creamy-brown in colour.
- camelshair — (attributive) The hair of a camel, used for paintbrushes etc.
- camera-shy — Someone who is camera-shy is nervous and uncomfortable about being filmed or about having their photograph taken.
- campership — financial aid given to a needy youngster to attend summer camp.
- camphorate — to apply, treat with, or impregnate with camphor
- 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
- cape dutch — (in South Africa) a distinctive style of furniture or architecture
- cape wrath — a promontory at the NW extremity of the Scottish mainland
- cape-wrath — Cape, a high promontory in NW Scotland: most NW point on mainland.
- capnophile — (biology) A microorganism that requires or grows best in presence of high concentrations of carbon dioxide.
- carchemish — an ancient city in Syria on the Euphrates, lying on major trade routes; site of a victory of the Babylonians over the Egyptians (605 bc)
- cardholder — A cardholder is someone who has a bank card or credit card.
- cardphones — Plural form of cardphone.
- careership — An approach to career-related decision-making, combining rationality, interactions with others, and responses to sometimes unpredictable events.
- carmarthen — a market town in S Wales, the administrative centre of Carmarthenshire: Norman castle. Pop: 14 648 (2001)
- carmichael — Hoaglund Howard (ˈhəʊɡlənd), known as Hoagy. 1899–1981, US pianist, singer, and composer of such standards as "Star Dust" (1929)
- carpophore — the central column surrounded by carpels in such flowers as the geranium
- carragheen — Irish moss.
- cart horse — A cart horse is a large, powerful horse that is used to pull carts or farm machinery.
- carthamine — a yellow or red dye obtained from safflower
- carthorses — Plural form of carthorse.
- cartophile — a cartophilist
- cartouches — Plural form of cartouche.
- cartwheels — Plural form of cartwheel.
- cased hole — A cased hole is the part of the wellbore with metal casing and cementing.
- caseharden — to form a hard, thin surface on (an iron alloy)
- cash money — cash, as distinguished from a check or money order.
- cash offer — a public equity issue sold to everyone who is interested in it