10-letter words containing a, c, n, t, h
- chin-strap — a strap attached to a hat for passing under the chin of the wearer.
- china tree — chinaberry (sense 1)
- chinstraps — Plural form of chinstrap.
- chitarrone — a large lute with a double neck in common use during the baroque period, esp in Italy
- chittagong — a port in E Bangladesh, on the Bay of Bengal: industrial centre. Pop: 4 171 000 (2005 est)
- chlorinate — to combine or treat (a substance) with chlorine
- choanocyte — any of the flagellated cells in sponges that maintain a flow of water through the body. A collar of protoplasm surrounds the base of the flagellum
- chromatins — Plural form of chromatin.
- chrononaut — (science fiction, dated) A time-traveller.
- chuang-tzu — Also, Chwang-tse. (Chuang Chow) flourished 4th century b.c, Chinese mystic and philosopher.
- chwang-tse — Chuang-tzu (def 1).
- clean-tech — using clean technology
- coathanger — Alternative spelling of coat hanger.
- coelacanth — a primitive marine bony fish of the genus Latimeria (subclass Crossopterygii), having fleshy limblike pectoral fins and occurring off the coast of E Africa: thought to be extinct until a living specimen was discovered in 1938
- cohabitant — a person living together with another or others
- cohabiting — to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
- cohobating — Present participle of cohobate.
- cohobation — (dated, chemistry) The boiling of a material in a liquid with the repeated return of the distillate.
- commandeth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of command.
- condylarth — any of the primitive ungulate mammals of the extinct order Condylarthra, from the Paleocene and Eocene epochs, having a slender body, low-crowned teeth, and five-toed feet, each toe ending in a small hoof.
- containeth — Archaic third-person singular form of contain.
- contrahent — entering into an agreement or contract
- corinthian — of, characteristic of, or relating to Corinth
- cornstarch — Cornstarch is the same as cornflour.
- court hand — a style of handwriting formerly used in English law courts
- crankshaft — A crankshaft is the main shaft of an internal combustion engine.
- ctenophora — the phylum comprising the comb jellies.
- cyanopathy — (medicine) A disease in which the surface of the body turns blue, usually arising from a malformation of the heart, which causes an imperfect arterialization of the blood.
- cyanophyta — a phylum, or subkingdom, in the kingdom Monera, comprising the blue-green algae.
- cyanophyte — a former name for a cyanobacterium
- decathlons — Plural form of decathlon.
- detachment — Detachment is the feeling that you have of not being personally involved in something or of having no emotional interest in it.
- dictaphone — a tape recorder designed for recording dictation and later reproducing it for typing
- disenchant — to rid of or free from enchantment, illusion, credulity, etc.; disillusion: The harshness of everyday reality disenchanted him of his idealistic hopes.
- ditrochean — consisting of two trochees
- dutch barn — a farm building consisting of a steel frame and a curved roof
- dutchwoman — a female native or inhabitant of the Netherlands; a woman of Dutch ancestry.
- echinulate — (of a plant or animal) having a covering of prickles or small spines.
- encashment — (finance) The payment in cash of a note, draft, etc.
- enchanters — Plural form of enchanter.
- enchanting — Delightfully charming or attractive.
- endothecia — Plural form of endothecium.
- enomotarch — (historical, Ancient Greece) The commander of an enomoty.
- epicanthic — Denoting a fold of skin from the upper eyelid covering the inner angle of the eye, typical in many peoples of eastern Asia and found as a congenital abnormality elsewhere.
- epicanthus — (anatomy) A skin fold of the upper eyelid, typical to East Asians.
- escheating — Present participle of escheat.
- ethnically — Of, pertaining to ethnicity or ethnics.
- ethnoscape — A transnational distribution of correlated people.
- eustachian — Alternative form of Eustachian.
- euthanasic — Of, or pertaining to euthanasia.