10-letter words containing a, c, h, r
- carthusian — a member of an austere monastic order founded by Saint Bruno in 1084 near Grenoble, France
- cartograph — the production of maps, including construction of projections, design, compilation, drafting, and reproduction.
- cartoonish — like a cartoon, esp in being one-dimensional, brightly coloured, or exaggerated
- cartophile — a cartophilist
- cartophily — the hobby of collecting cigarette cards
- cartouches — Plural form of cartouche.
- cartwheels — Plural form of cartwheel.
- cartwright — a person who makes carts
- caseharden — to form a hard, thin surface on (an iron alloy)
- cash offer — a public equity issue sold to everyone who is interested in it
- cash price — discount
- cash prize — a prize in a competition that takes the form of money
- cash ratio — the ratio of cash on hand to total deposits that by law or custom commercial banks must maintain
- cash terms — the terms of a business transaction that is conducted in ready money
- cashdrawer — a drawer, as in a cash register, that has separate compartments for coins and bills of different denominations.
- cashiering — to dismiss (a military officer) from service, especially with disgrace.
- cat-harpin — any of a number of short ropes or rods for gathering in shrouds near their tops.
- cataphoric — the use of a word or phrase to refer to a following word or group of words, as the use of the phrase as follows.
- cataphract — a defensive armour, often made of link mail, used for the entire body
- catarrhine — (of apes and Old World monkeys) having the nostrils set close together and opening to the front of the face
- catch crop — a quick-growing crop planted between two regular crops grown in consecutive seasons, or between two rows of regular crops in the same season
- catch fire — to ignite
- catch-cord — a cord or wire located near a selvage, used to form a loop or deflect the filling yarn not intended to be woven permanently in with the regular selvage.
- catchwater — a drain or ditch which catches water
- catchwords — Plural form of catchword.
- catechizer — One who catechizes.
- cathartics — Plural form of cathartic.
- cathedrals — Plural form of cathedral.
- cathemeral — Relating to organisms that have sporadic and random intervals during the day or night in which food is acquired.
- catwhisker — a sharply pointed, flexible wire used to make contact with a specific point on a semiconductor or a crystal detector
- cerography — the art of engraving on a waxed plate on which a printing surface is created by electrotyping
- cfortran.h — (library) A transparent, machine independent interface between C and Fortran routines and global data, developed by Burkhard Burow at CERN. It provides macros which allow the C preprocessor to translate a simple description of a C (Fortran) routine or global data into a Fortran (C) interface. Version 2.6 runs on VAX/VMS/Ultrix, DECstation, Silicon Graphics, IBM RS/6000, Sun, Cray, Apollo, HP9000, LynxOS, f2c, NAG f90. cfortran.h was reviewed in RS/Magazine November 1992 and a user's experiences with cfortran.h are described in the Jan 93 issue of Computers in Physics.
- chadderton — a town in NW England, in Oldham unitary authority, in Greater Manchester. Pop: 33 001 (2001)
- chaffering — Present participle of chaffer.
- chagrining — Present participle of chagrin.
- chagrinned — a feeling of vexation, marked by disappointment or humiliation.
- chain fern — any of several ferns of the genus Woodwardia, having a chainlike row of sori on either side of the midrib of each fertile leaflet.
- chain gear — a gear assembly in which motion is transmitted by means of a chain.
- chain rule — a theorem that may be used in the differentiation of the function of a function. It states that du/dx = (du/dy)(dy/dx), where y is a function of x and u a function of y
- chain-work — any decorative product, handiwork, etc., in which parts are looped or woven together, like the links of a chain.
- chainbrake — a device for cutting off the power to a chainsaw if the saw kicks back
- chair lift — A chair lift is a line of chairs that hang from a moving cable and carry people up and down a mountain or ski slope.
- chair rail — a molding on an interior wall for preventing the backs of chairs from rubbing against plaster.
- chairborne — having an administrative or desk job rather than a more active one
- chairbound — unable to walk; dependent on a wheelchair for mobility
- chairlifts — Plural form of chairlift.
- chairwoman — The chairwoman of a meeting, committee, or organization is the woman in charge of it.
- chairwomen — Plural form of chairwoman.
- chalkboard — A chalkboard is a dark-coloured board that you can write on with chalk. Chalkboards are often used by teachers in the classroom.
- challenger — A challenger is someone who competes with you for a position or title that you already have, for example being a sports champion or a political leader.