10-letter words containing a, n, t, h, r
- branch out — If a person or an organization branches out, they do something that is different from their normal activities or work.
- branchiate — having gills.
- breathe in — When you breathe in, you take some air into your lungs.
- carmarthen — a market town in S Wales, the administrative centre of Carmarthenshire: Norman castle. Pop: 14 648 (2001)
- carthamine — a yellow or red dye obtained from safflower
- carthusian — a member of an austere monastic order founded by Saint Bruno in 1084 near Grenoble, France
- cartoonish — like a cartoon, esp in being one-dimensional, brightly coloured, or exaggerated
- cat-harpin — any of a number of short ropes or rods for gathering in shrouds near their tops.
- catarrhine — (of apes and Old World monkeys) having the nostrils set close together and opening to the front of the face
- 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)
- chambertin — a dry red burgundy wine produced in Gevrey-Chambertin in E France
- chardonnet — (Louis Marie) Hilaire Bernigaud (ilɛr bɛrniɡo), Comte de. 1839–1924, French chemist and industrialist who produced rayon, the first artificial fibre
- charlatans — Plural form of charlatan.
- charleston — The Charleston is a lively dance that was popular in the 1920s.
- chartering — a document, issued by a sovereign or state, outlining the conditions under which a corporation, colony, city, or other corporate body is organized, and defining its rights and privileges.
- chattering — rapid and continuous talk
- chatterton — Thomas. 1752–70, British poet; author of spurious medieval verse and prose: he committed suicide at the age of 17
- cheapernet — (networking) (Or "thinnet") A colloquial term for thin-wire Ethernet (10base2) that uses RG58 coaxial cable instead of the full-spec "Yellow Cable".
- chevrotain — any small timid ruminant artiodactyl mammal of the genera Tragulus and Hyemoschus, of S and SE Asia: family Tragulidae. They resemble rodents, and the males have long tusklike upper canines
- chin strap — a strap attached to a hat for passing under the chin of the wearer.
- 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
- chlorinate — to combine or treat (a substance) with chlorine
- chromatins — Plural form of chromatin.
- chrononaut — (science fiction, dated) A time-traveller.
- coathanger — Alternative spelling of coat hanger.
- 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.
- 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.
- den father — (in the Boy Scouts) a man who serves as an adult leader or supervisor of a cub scout den.
- disenthral — disenthrall.
- dishearten — to depress the hope, courage, or spirits of; discourage.
- disinthral — (transitive) To set free from thraldom or oppression.
- ditrochean — consisting of two trochees
- draughting — a drawing, sketch, or design.
- drunkathon — a session in which excessive quantities of alcohol are consumed
- dutch barn — a farm building consisting of a steel frame and a curved roof
- earth sign — any of the three astrological signs, Taurus, Virgo, or Capricorn, that are grouped together because of the shared attributes of practicality and interest in material things.
- earth tone — any of various warm, muted colors ranging basically from neutral to deep brown.
- earthbound — headed for the earth: an earthbound meteorite.
- earthiness — of the nature of or consisting of earth or soil.
- earthlings — Plural form of earthling.
- earthshine — the faint illumination of the part of the moon not illuminated by sunlight, as during a crescent phase, caused by the reflection of light from the earth.