10-letter words containing a, c, h, r, o
- homorganic — (of two or more speech sounds) having the same place of articulation, as p, b, and m, which are all bilabial.
- homuncular — an artificially made dwarf, supposedly produced in a flask by an alchemist.
- honor camp — a prison work camp operating on an honor system.
- honor card — honor (def 11).
- hopper car — a freight car, usually open at the top and containing one or more hoppers so that bulk cargo can be quickly discharged through its bottom.
- horn chair — a chair, especially of the late 19th-century U.S., having a frame made from steer, elk, buffalo, or other animal horns.
- horrifical — Of or pertaining to horror.
- horse clam — gaper.
- horse race — a contest of speed among horses that either are ridden by jockeys or pull sulkies and their drivers.
- horse-race — a contest of speed among horses that either are ridden by jockeys or pull sulkies and their drivers.
- horseraces — Plural form of horserace.
- hotel rack — rack6 (def 2).
- housecarls — Plural form of housecarl.
- hovercraft — ACV.
- hyaluronic — Of or pertaining to hyaluronic acid or its derivatives.
- hydra code — (humour, programming) Code that cannot be fixed because each time a bug is remove, two new bugs grow in its place. Named after the many-headed Hydra of Greek mythology.
- hydrocoral — any colonial marine animal of the hydrozoan order Stylasterina having a calcareous skeleton resembling that of the true corals.
- hydrocrack — to crack (petroleum or the like) in the presence of hydrogen.
- hydromancy — divination by means of the motions or appearance of water.
- hydrospace — the regions beneath the surface of the oceans and seas.
- hydrotheca — the part of the perisarc covering a hydranth.
- hygrochasy — the opening of a fruit or flower caused by water or moisture
- hyperchaos — (mathematics) A form of chaotic behaviour with at least two positive Lyapunov exponents.
- hyperfocal — relating to the distance beyond which a lens can be focused to produce satisfactory image quality
- hyperlocal — relating to or focused on a very small geographical community, as a neighborhood: hyperlocal news websites; hyperlocal advertising.
- hyporchema — a lively choral ode sung in ancient Greece in honor of Apollo or Dionysus.
- hystorical — Nonstandard spelling of historical.
- ice anchor — a large, hooklike device for setting in ice to anchor a vessel or to provide a hold for a hawser in warping it along.
- iconograph — symbolic representation, especially the conventional meanings attached to an image or images.
- inharmonic — not harmonic; dissonant.
- isochronal — equal or uniform in time.
- isographic — (in the study of the geographical distribution of a dialect) a line drawn on a map to indicate areas having common linguistic characteristics.
- jonah crab — a large, red, deepwater crab, Cancer borealis, of the east coast of North America.
- kodachrome — (lowercase) a positive color transparency.
- lachrymose — suggestive of or tending to cause tears; mournful.
- leucorrhea — Alternative form of leukorrhea.
- loch morar — a lake in W Scotland, in the SW Highlands: the deepest in Scotland. Length: 18 km (11 miles). Depth: 296 m (987 ft)
- loch raven — a town in central Maryland, near Baltimore.
- long march — the 6000-mile (9654-km) retreat of the Chinese Communist Party and Red Army from southeastern China (Jiangxi province) to the northwest (Yanan in Shaanxi province) in 1934–35, during which Mao Zedong became leader of the Communist party.
- machinator — One who machinates, or forms a scheme with evil designs; a plotter or artful schemer.
- macpherson — James, 1736–96, Scottish author and translator.
- macrograph — a representation of an object that is of the same size as or larger than the object.
- macrophage — a large white blood cell, occurring principally in connective tissue and in the bloodstream, that ingests foreign particles and infectious microorganisms by phagocytosis.
- macrophyte — a plant, especially a marine plant, large enough to be visible to the naked eye.
- mainbocher — (Main Rousseau Bocher) 1891–1976, U.S. fashion designer.
- man orchid — an orchid, Aceras anthropophorum, having greenish or reddish flowers in a loose spike, with a deeply lobed dark brown lip thought to resemble the silhouette of a man
- maraschino — a sweet cordial or liqueur distilled from marascas.
- matchboard — a board having a tongue formed on one edge and a groove of the same dimensions cut into the other, used with similar boards to compose floors, dados, etc.
- metaphoric — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
- methiocarb — a crystalline compound, C 1 1 H 1 5 NO 2 S, used as a nonsystemic insecticide and miticide.