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10-letter words containing c, a, h, e, u

  • 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
  • dude ranch — a ranch operated primarily as a vacation resort.
  • echinulate — (of a plant or animal) having a covering of prickles or small spines.
  • encephalum — The brain of an insect.
  • epicanthus — (anatomy) A skin fold of the upper eyelid, typical to East Asians.
  • euharmonic — producing perfect concord or harmony
  • euphonical — (archaic) euphonious; pleasing to the ear.
  • eurybathic — (of an aquatic organism) able to live at different depths
  • eustachian — Alternative form of Eustachian.
  • euthanasic — Of, or pertaining to euthanasia.
  • faith cure — a method of attempting to cure disease by prayer and religious faith.
  • feathercut — a woman's hair style in which the hair is cut in short and uneven lengths and formed into small curls with featherlike tips.
  • fish sauce — a spicy sauce made from the fermented liquid of salt-cured fish, especially anchovies, popular as a flavoring or condiment in Southeast Asian cookery.
  • gaucheness — The quality of being gauche.
  • gaucheries — Plural form of gaucherie.
  • guaguanche — a barracuda, Sphyraena guachanco, found chiefly off the coast of Florida.
  • habitaunce — a place where a person or an animal lives or resides
  • hack house — Falconry. a shed where young hawks are kept and fed while at hack.
  • hack value — Often adduced as the reason or motivation for expending effort toward a seemingly useless goal, the point being that the accomplished goal is a hack. For example, MacLISP had features for reading and printing Roman numerals, which were installed purely for hack value. See display hack for one method of computing hack value, but this cannot really be explained, only experienced. As Louis Armstrong once said when asked to explain jazz: "Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know." (Feminists please note Fats Waller's explanation of rhythm: "Lady, if you got to ask you ain't got it.")
  • haircutter — A barber.
  • halieutics — (literature) A treatise upon fish or the art of fishing.
  • hamesucken — the offence of attacking a person in his or her own dwelling
  • handcuffed — Simple past tense and past participle of handcuff.
  • hard sauce — a mixture of butter and confectioners' sugar, often with flavoring and cream.
  • haruspices — Plural form of haruspex.
  • head count — an inventory of people in a group taken by counting individuals.
  • hellacious — remarkable; astonishing: They're raising a hellacious amount of money in taxes.
  • heptateuch — the first seven books of the Old Testament.
  • heraclitus — ("the Obscure") c540–c470 b.c, Greek philosopher.
  • herbaceous — of, relating to, or characteristic of an herb; herblike.
  • 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.
  • hugh capetHugh or Fr. Hugues [yg] /üg/ (Show IPA), a.d. 938?–996, king of France 987–996.
  • human race — humanity, humans as a species
  • humectants — Plural form of humectant.
  • humpbacked — having a hump on the back.
  • hurricanes — Plural form of hurricane.
  • hyperacute — sharp or severe in effect; intense: acute sorrow; an acute pain.
  • juiceheads — Plural form of juicehead.
  • kampuchean — People's Republic of, a former official name of Cambodia.
  • leprechaun — a dwarf or sprite.
  • leuchaemia — leukaemia
  • leucopathy — (dated) albinism.
  • leucorrhea — Alternative form of leukorrhea.
  • lucanthone — A particular drug used in chemotherapy.
  • lumachella — Alternative form of lumachel.
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