10-letter words containing a, c, h, r, o
- pentachord — a series of five consecutive notes of a scale
- phallocrat — a male who assumes authority over females due to his maleness
- pharmacol. — pharmacology
- phone card — calling card (def 3).
- physiocrat — one of a school of political economists who followed Quesnay in holding that an inherent natural order properly governed society, regarding land as the basis of wealth and taxation, and advocating a laissez-faire economy.
- pictograph — pictogram
- polyarchic — a form of government in which power is vested in three or more persons.
- prognathic — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- psychogram — a message believed to be written by a spirit or authored by psychical means
- punchboard — a small board containing holes filled with slips of paper printed with concealed numbers that are punched out by a player in an attempt to win a prize.
- quebrachos — Plural form of quebracho.
- race-horse — a horse bred or kept for racing, especially in flat races or steeplechases.
- racehorses — Plural form of racehorse.
- rachiotomy — (surgery) The surgical procedure of cutting, or making an incision in a vertebra.
- reapproach — to come near or nearer to: The cars slowed down as they approached the intersection.
- reproached — to find fault with (a person, group, etc.); blame; censure.
- rheostatic — an adjustable resistor so constructed that its resistance may be changed without opening the circuit in which it is connected, thereby controlling the current in the circuit.
- rhetorical — used for, belonging to, or concerned with mere style or effect.
- rhinotheca — the covering of the upper part of the beak in birds
- rhotacized — to change (a sound) to an (r); subject to rhotacism.
- richardson — Henry Handel (Henrietta Richardson Robertson) 1870–1946, Australian novelist.
- roach back — an arched back, as of a dog.
- roach clip — a small tweezerlike clip for holding the butt of a marijuana cigarette.
- rochambeau — Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur [zhahn ba-teest daw-na-syan duh vee-mœr] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist dɔ naˈsyɛ̃ də viˈmœr/ (Show IPA), Count de, 1725–1807, French general: marshal of France 1791–1807; commander of the French army in the American Revolution.
- roche alum — an alumlike substance derived from alunite.
- rock hyrax — an African and Middle Eastern hyrax of the genus Procavia that lives in rocky places.
- rockingham — Second Marquis of, Charles Watson-Wentworth.
- rom. cath. — Roman Catholic
- roman arch — a semicircular arch.
- round arch — an arch formed in a continuous curve, especially in a semicircle.
- routemarch — march in which a unit retains its column formation but individuals are allowed to break step.
- saccharoid — having a granular texture like that of loaf sugar.
- saccharose — sucrose.
- samothrace — a Greek island in the NE Aegean.
- sarcophagi — a stone coffin, especially one bearing sculpture, inscriptions, etc., often displayed as a monument.
- sarcophile — a flesh-eating animal, especially the Tasmanian devil.
- scaramouch — a stock character in commedia dell'arte and farce who is a cowardly braggart, easily beaten and frightened.
- scherzando — (a musical direction) playful; sportive.
- schizocarp — a dry, dehiscent fruit that at maturity splits into two or more one-seeded carpels.
- schongauer — Martin [mahr-tn;; German mahr-teen] /ˈmɑr tn;; German ˈmɑr tin/ (Show IPA), c1430–91, German engraver and painter.
- schoolmarm — a female schoolteacher, especially of the old-time country school type, popularly held to be strict and priggish.
- schoolward — towards or in the direction of school
- schoolyard — a playground or sports field near a school.
- schwarzlot — a type of black decoration on German glassware and ceramics that was popular in the 17th and 18th centuries
- scrollhead — billethead.
- sea anchor — any of various devices, as a drogue, that have great resistance to being pulled through the water and are dropped forward of a vessel at the end of a cable to hold the bow into the wind or sea during a storm.
- search dog — a dog trained to assist rescue workers in finding people buried under rubble by detection by smell
- search out — hunt for, seek
- semaphoric — an apparatus for conveying information by means of visual signals, as a light whose position may be changed.
- shoe cream — cream for polishing shoes