10-letter words containing a, s, h, c, o
- headstocks — Plural form of headstock.
- hectograms — Plural form of hectogram.
- hellacious — remarkable; astonishing: They're raising a hellacious amount of money in taxes.
- hematocyst — a cyst containing blood.
- hemostatic — arresting hemorrhage, as a drug; styptic.
- herbaceous — of, relating to, or characteristic of an herb; herblike.
- hexachords — Plural form of hexachord.
- historical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
- holocausts — Plural form of holocaust.
- home scrap — scrap steel reprocessed in the steel mill in which it was produced.
- homosocial — Pertaining to homosociality, to social interaction with the same sex.
- hopsacking — bagging made chiefly of hemp and jute.
- horse clam — gaper.
- horse race — a contest of speed among horses that either are ridden by jockeys or pull sulkies and their drivers.
- horse-race — a contest of speed among horses that either are ridden by jockeys or pull sulkies and their drivers.
- horseraces — Plural form of horserace.
- housatonic — a river flowing S from NW Massachusetts through SW Connecticut to Long Island Sound near Stratford, Connecticut. 148 miles (240 km) long.
- house call — a professional visit, as by a doctor or sales representative, to the home of a patient or customer.
- housecarls — Plural form of housecarl.
- houseclean — to subject (a house, room, etc.) to housecleaning.
- housecoats — Plural form of housecoat.
- hydrospace — the regions beneath the surface of the oceans and seas.
- hygrochasy — the opening of a fruit or flower caused by water or moisture
- hyoscyamus — the dried leaves, with or without the tops, of the henbane, Hyoscyamus niger, containing the alkaloids hyoscyamine and scopolamine, used in medicine.
- hyperchaos — (mathematics) A form of chaotic behaviour with at least two positive Lyapunov exponents.
- hypocausts — Plural form of hypocaust.
- hypostatic — of or relating to a hypostasis; fundamental.
- hystorical — Nonstandard spelling of historical.
- in cahoots — go cahoots, to share equally; become partners: They went cahoots in the establishment of the store. Also, go in cahoot with, go in cahoots.
- isocephaly — (of a composition) having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
- isochasmic — (of a line on a map) bounding areas of equal auroral frequency
- isochronal — equal or uniform in time.
- isographic — (in the study of the geographical distribution of a dialect) a line drawn on a map to indicate areas having common linguistic characteristics.
- isopachous — having the same thickness.
- kalanchoes — Plural form of kalanchoe.
- laccoliths — Plural form of laccolith.
- lachrymose — suggestive of or tending to cause tears; mournful.
- law school — university where law degrees are taught
- lithoclast — an instrument used to break up bladder stones
- macchiatos — Plural form of macchiato.
- machoflops — /mach'oh-flops/ A pun on "megaflops" referring to the inflated performance figures often quoted by computer manufacturers. Real application programs are lucky to get half the quoted speed. See Your mileage may vary, benchmark.
- mackintosh — Charles Rennie [ren-ee] /ˈrɛn i/ (Show IPA), 1868–1928, Scottish architect and designer.
- macpherson — James, 1736–96, Scottish author and translator.
- maraschino — a sweet cordial or liqueur distilled from marascas.
- masochists — Plural form of masochist.
- mast cloth — a partial lining sewed to the back of a square sail to prevent chafing from contact with the mast.
- matchbooks — Plural form of matchbook.
- matchboxes — Plural form of matchbox.
- matchlocks — Plural form of matchlock.
- mesoscaphe — a mid-20th century vessel lowered into the sea to a moderate depth for the purpose of underwater exploration