10-letter words containing b, c, h
- check stub — A check stub is the part of a check that is kept by the payee with information such as the check number, date, and amount.
- checkbooks — Plural form of checkbook.
- cheekbones — Plural form of cheekbone.
- cheeseball — (pejorative) someone cheesy, lacking taste or style.
- chelatable — having the capability to chelate
- chequebook — a book containing detachable blank cheques and issued by a bank or building society to holders of cheque accounts
- cherry-bob — a pair of cherries joined at the end of their stems.
- cherubfish — a brilliantly colored butterflyfish, Centropyge argi, found in the West Indies: kept in home aquariums.
- cherubical — Cherubic.
- cherubicon — the hymn sung during the Great Entrance by the choir, which represents the cherubim.
- cherublike — a celestial being. Gen. 3:24; Ezek. 1, 10.
- chess club — a club in which participants can learn chess and improve their playing skills
- chessboard — A chessboard is a square board with 64 black and white squares that is used for playing chess.
- chesterbed — a sofa or chesterfield that opens into a bed.
- chiffarobe — Alternative form of chifforobe.
- chifferobe — a piece of furniture having both drawers and space for hanging clothes.
- chifforobe — an article of furniture that comprises a chest of drawers and a wardrobe
- chilblains — Plural form of chilblain.
- childbirth — Childbirth is the act of giving birth to a child.
- chilly bin — a portable insulated container with provision for packing food and drink in ice
- chimborazo — an extinct volcano in central Ecuador, in the Andes: the highest peak in Ecuador. Height: 6267 m (20 561 ft)
- china bark — cinchona (sense 2)
- china blue — a bright greenish blue.
- chinaberry — a spreading Asian meliaceous tree, Melia azedarach, widely grown in the US for its ornamental white or purple flowers and beadlike yellow fruits
- chinch bug — a black-and-white tropical American heteropterous insect, Blissus leucopterus, that is very destructive to grasses and cereals in the US: family Lygaeidae
- chip-based — (of electronic equipment or components) using or incorporating microchips
- choke back — If you choke back tears or a strong emotion, you force yourself not to show your emotion.
- chokeberry — any of various North American rosaceous shrubs of the genus Aronia
- choliambic — relating to or in the form of choliambs
- choliambus — a line of iambic meter with a spondee or trochee replacing the last foot.
- chop block — butcher-block.
- choriambus — choriamb.
- chorus boy — a male singer or dancer of the chorus of a musical comedy, vaudeville show, etc.
- chubb lock — a type of lock with a device that sets the bolt immovably if the lock is picked
- chubbiness — round and plump: a chubby child; a chubby face.
- chubsucker — any of several stout suckers of the genus Erimyzon, inhabiting sluggish streams, backwaters, and lakes of the central and eastern U.S.
- chupacabra — An animal said to exist in parts of Latin America, where it supposedly attacks animals, especially goats.
- cibachrome — the old name for the Ilfochrome photographic printing process
- cibophobia — The fear of, or aversion to, eating or food.
- cinch belt — a wide belt of elastic, leather, or fabric with a clasp or lacing in front, worn tightly to make the waist look smaller.
- cloth beam — a roller, located at the front of a loom, on which woven material is wound after it leaves the breast beam.
- clothbound — (of a book) bound in stiff boards covered in cloth
- club chair — a large, heavily upholstered armchair, usually with a low back
- club wheat — a wheat, Triticum compactum, characterized by compact, club-shaped spikes, used for making pastry flour and the like.
- club-house — a building or room occupied by a club.
- clubhouses — Plural form of clubhouse.
- clutch bag — clutch1 (def 15).
- co-publish — to publish (something) with another person or company
- coach bolt — a large round-headed bolt used esp to secure wood to masonry
- cochabamba — a city in central Bolivia. Pop: 561 000 (2005 est)