10-letter words containing a, p, c, h
- 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
- poachiness — the state of being poachy
- pocahontas — (Rebecca Rolfe) 1595?–1617, American Indian woman who is said to have prevented the execution of Captain John Smith.
- polyarchic — a form of government in which power is vested in three or more persons.
- polychaete — any annelid of the class Polychaeta, having unsegmented swimming appendages with many setae or bristles.
- polymathic — a person of great learning in several fields of study; polyhistor.
- polyphagic — Pathology. excessive desire to eat.
- polyphasic — having more than two phases.
- postlaunch — relating to or occurring in the period after a launch
- pre-launch — preparatory to launch, as of a spacecraft.
- preachings — the act or practice of a person who preaches.
- preachment — the act of preaching.
- prechamber — A prechamber in an engine is a small area, usually in the cylinder head, in which combustion is started before fuel enters into the main combustion chamber.
- prognathic — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- psychiatry — the practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders.
- psychogram — a message believed to be written by a spirit or authored by psychical means
- psychopath — a person with a psychopathic personality, which manifests as amoral and antisocial behavior, lack of ability to love or establish meaningful personal relationships, extreme egocentricity, failure to learn from experience, etc.
- pt teacher — a teacher of Physical Training
- pubic hair — hair growing in genital area
- punch card — punched card
- punchboard — a small board containing holes filled with slips of paper printed with concealed numbers that are punched out by a player in an attempt to win a prize.
- purchasing — buying
- puschkinia — a small spring-flowering bulb, Puschkinia scilloides, of Asia Minor and the Caucasus, having white or pale blue flowers striped with dark blue
- pyracantha — firethorn.
- ralph cram — Ralph Adams, 1863–1942, U.S. architect and writer.
- ratchet up — If something ratchets up or is ratcheted up, it increases by a fixed amount or degree, and seems unlikely to decrease again.
- reapproach — to come near or nearer to: The cars slowed down as they approached the intersection.
- redispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- reproached — to find fault with (a person, group, etc.); blame; censure.
- repurchase — to buy again; regain by purchase.
- roach clip — a small tweezerlike clip for holding the butt of a marijuana cigarette.
- sachemship — the office of a sachem
- sand perch — squirrelfish.
- sarcophagi — a stone coffin, especially one bearing sculpture, inscriptions, etc., often displayed as a monument.
- sarcophile — a flesh-eating animal, especially the Tasmanian devil.
- scampishly — in a scampish manner
- scapewheel — escape wheel.
- scatophagy — the act of eating dung or excrement
- schafskopf — sheepshead (def 4).
- schizocarp — a dry, dehiscent fruit that at maturity splits into two or more one-seeded carpels.
- scrap heap — a pile of old, discarded material, as metal.
- scrap-heap — a pile of old, discarded material, as metal.
- scratchpad — pad of paper for rough notes
- scyphozoan — any coelenterate of the class Scyphozoa, comprising the true marine jellyfishes.
- semaphoric — an apparatus for conveying information by means of visual signals, as a light whose position may be changed.
- sepulchral — of, relating to, or serving as a tomb.
- shaggy cap — an edible inky-cap mushroom, Coprinus comatus, having an elongated, shaggy pileus.
- shankpiece — a piece of metal or fiber for giving form to the shank of a shoe.