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10-letter words containing a, g, h, o

  • cacography — bad handwriting
  • cargo ship — a ship carrying cargo
  • carhopping — the practice of serving customers at a drive-in restaurant
  • carphology — the action of grasping at imaginary objects or plucking at one's bed linen, a characteristic of people affected by delirium
  • cartograph — the production of maps, including construction of projections, design, compilation, drafting, and reproduction.
  • cerography — the art of engraving on a waxed plate on which a printing surface is created by electrotyping
  • champignon — any of various agaricaceous edible mushrooms, esp Marasmius oreades and the meadow mushroom
  • change off — to take turns
  • changeover — A changeover is a change from one activity or system to another.
  • changeroom — a room for use in changing one's clothes.
  • charge off — to treat or regard as a loss
  • charge-off — a write-off, especially of a bad loan by a bank.
  • chargeoffs — Plural form of chargeoff.
  • chasmogamy — the production of flowers that open, so as to expose the reproductive organs and allow cross-pollination
  • cheongsams — Plural form of cheongsam.
  • chilognath — any member of the diplopod subclass Chilognatha, including millipedes having exoskeletons heavily sclerotized with calcium carbonate.
  • chip wagon — a small van in which chips are cooked and sold
  • chirograph — an indenture
  • chittagong — a port in E Bangladesh, on the Bay of Bengal: industrial centre. Pop: 4 171 000 (2005 est)
  • cholagogue — a drug or other substance that promotes the flow of bile from the gall bladder into the duodenum
  • chorograph — An instrument for constructing triangles in marine surveying, etc.
  • chromagens — Plural form of chromagen.
  • chromogram — a photograph that depicts an object in true-to-life colours that is obtained by putting together three different photographs
  • chronogram — a phrase or inscription in which letters such as M, C, X, L, and V can be read as Roman numerals giving a date
  • chuckwagon — A wagon equipped with food and cooking utensils, as on a ranch or in a lumber camp.
  • climograph — A chart that summarizes the climate of a place by superimposing a line graph representing average monthly temperature on a bar chart representing average monthly precipitation.
  • clinograph — (in mining, construction, etc.) an instrument that records the deviation of boreholes or the like from the vertical.
  • coathanger — Alternative spelling of coat hanger.
  • cohabiting — to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
  • cohobating — Present participle of cohobate.
  • collagraph — An artistic print made through the printmaking process of collagraphy.
  • copenhagen — the capital of Denmark, a port on Zealand and the Amager Islands on a site inhabited for some 6000 years: exports chiefly agricultural products; iron and steel works; university (1479). Pop: 501 664 (2004 est)
  • coprophagy — feeding on dung, as certain beetles.
  • cyclograph — Arcograph.
  • demography — Demography is the study of the changes in numbers of births, deaths, marriages, and cases of disease in a community over a period of time.
  • dictograph — a telephonic instrument for secretly monitoring or recording conversations by means of a small, sensitive, and often concealed microphone
  • dittograph — an instance of dittography; a passage containing reduplicated syllables, letters, etc.
  • dogcatcher — a person employed by a municipal pound, humane society, or the like, to find and impound stray or homeless dogs, cats, etc.
  • dogwatches — Plural form of dogwatch.
  • douche bag — a small syringe having detachable nozzles for fluid injections, used chiefly for vaginal lavage and for enemas.
  • douchebags — Plural form of douchebag.
  • doughfaced — over-persuadable
  • dragonfish — any marine fish of the family Bathydraconidae, of Antarctic seas, having an elongated body and flattened head and being biochemically adapted to extremely low temperatures.
  • dragonhead — any of several mints of the genus Dracocephalum having spikes of double-lipped flowers.
  • echography — a device that records oceanic depths by means of sonic waves.
  • edaphology — The ecological relationship of soil with plants, and land cultivation practices.
  • ergophobia — An irrational fear of work.
  • esophageal — Pertaining to the esophagus.
  • exophagous — (of an insect larva) living on the outside of, and feeding upon, the host
  • farborough — an under constable of a township
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