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10-letter words containing a, c, h, y

  • jacky howe — (formerly) a sleeveless flannel shirt worn by sheep shearers
  • johnnycake — a cake or bread made of corn meal and water or milk, usually cooked on a griddle.
  • lachrymals — Plural form of lachrymal.
  • lachrymose — suggestive of or tending to cause tears; mournful.
  • land yacht — a wind-driven vehicle with a mast and sails, having three wheels, a single seat, and a steering wheel, used especially on beaches and other sandy areas.
  • lathyritic — Of or pertaining to lathyrism.
  • leucopathy — (dated) albinism.
  • lithomancy — Divination with the use of precious or semi-precious stones, gemstones, or normal stones by either interpreting the light they reflect (crystallomancy), or how they fall (sortilege).
  • lymphatics — Plural form of lymphatic.
  • lysimachus — 361?–281 b.c, Macedonian general: king of Thrace 306–281.
  • macrophyte — a plant, especially a marine plant, large enough to be visible to the naked eye.
  • match play — play in which the score is reckoned by counting the holes won by each side.
  • matriarchy — a family, society, community, or state governed by women.
  • melancholy — sober thoughtfulness; pensiveness.
  • merchantry — (dated) The body of merchants taken collectively.
  • metaphysic — metaphysics.
  • moucharaby — a projecting second-storey window or balcony enclosed with latticework
  • myasthenic — Of, pertaining to, or suffering from myasthenia.
  • mycorrhiza — a symbiotic association of the mycelium of a fungus, especially a basidiomycete, with the roots of certain plants, in which the hyphae form a closely woven mass around the rootlets or penetrate the cells of the root.
  • mythically — pertaining to, of the nature of, or involving a myth.
  • mythoclast — a destroyer or debunker of myths.
  • necrophagy — The eating of dead or decaying animal flesh.
  • nonstarchy — Alternative spelling of non-starchy.
  • notch baby — a person who was born in the U.S. between 1917 and 1921 and as a retiree received lower cost-of-living increases in Social Security than others after Congress readjusted Social Security benefits in 1977.
  • ochlocracy — government by the mob; mob rule; mobocracy.
  • oxycephaly — a malformation in which the head is somewhat pointed, caused by premature closure of the skull sutures.
  • pachymeter — an instrument for measuring thickness
  • paddywhack — Informal. a spanking.
  • parastichy — one of a number of seemingly secondary spirals or oblique ranks winding around the stem or axis to the right and left in a spiral arrangement of leaves, scales, etc., where the internodes are short and the members closely crowded, as in the houseleek and the pine cone.
  • parchingly — to make extremely, excessively, or completely dry, as heat, sun, and wind do.
  • parenchyma — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
  • paronychia — inflammation of the folds of skin bordering a nail of a finger or toe, usually characterized by infection and pus formation; felon.
  • patriarchy — a form of social organization in which the father is the supreme authority in the family, clan, or tribe and descent is reckoned in the male line, with the children belonging to the father's clan or tribe.
  • pay cheque — Your pay cheque is a piece of paper that your employer gives you as your wages or salary, and which you can then cash at a bank. You can also use pay cheque as a way of referring to your wages or salary.
  • pentaptych — a work of art consisting of five panels or sections.
  • petty cash — funds kept for minor expenses
  • phagocytic — any cell, as a macrophage, that ingests and destroys foreign particles, bacteria, and cell debris.
  • phatically — in a phatic manner
  • phonically — of or relating to speech sounds.
  • photically — in a photic manner, by way of photic processes
  • phylactery — Judaism. either of two small, black, leather cubes containing a piece of parchment inscribed with verses 4–9 of Deut. 6, 13–21 of Deut. 11, and 1–16 of Ex. 13: one is attached with straps to the left arm and the other to the forehead during weekday morning prayers by Orthodox and Conservative Jewish men.
  • phylloclad — cladophyll
  • physiatric — physical medicine.
  • physically — relating to the body or its appearance: He is not physically attractive.
  • 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.
  • picayunish — of little value or account; small; trifling: a picayune amount.
  • play havoc — to cause a great deal of damage, distress, or confusion (to)
  • play-lunch — a schoolchild's mid-morning snack
  • playschool — preschool, nursery school
  • polyarchic — a form of government in which power is vested in three or more persons.
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