10-letter words containing c, a, n, h
- nouakchott — Official name Islamic Republic of Mauritania. a republic in W Africa, largely in the Sahara Desert: formerly a French colony; a member of the French Community 1958–66; independent 1960. 418,120 sq. mi. (1,082,931 sq. km). Capital: Nouakchott.
- nudibranch — a shell-less, marine snail of the suborder Nudibranchia, having external, often branched respiratory appendages on the back and sides.
- nuthatches — Plural form of nuthatch.
- ochratoxin — a toxin produced by Aspergillus ochraceus and several other molds that commonly contaminate cereal grains: causes intestinal inflammation and kidney and liver degeneration when ingested by animals.
- octachoron — (mathematics) A four-dimensional object equivalent to a cube, constructed out of sixteen cubes.
- octahedron — a solid figure having eight faces.
- off chance — See at chance (def 17).
- off-chance — See at chance (def 17).
- oil change — the replacement of dirty engine oil with clean engine oil
- open chain — a series of atoms linked in a chain not joined together at its ends, and so represented in its structural formula.
- orcharding — the cultivation of orchards
- orchardman — A man who owns or tends an orchard.
- orthocaine — a methyl ester used for local anaesthesia
- ouananiche — A salmon of landlocked populations living in lakes in Labrador and Newfoundland.
- overlaunch — (in shipbuilding) to overlap planks
- pantheonic — a domed circular temple at Rome, erected a.d. 120–124 by Hadrian, used as a church since a.d.
- paraphonic — of, relating to, or characterized by paraphonia
- parchingly — to make extremely, excessively, or completely dry, as heat, sun, and wind do.
- parenchyma — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
- parischane — a parish
- park bench — a long seat made of wood or metal that two or more people can sit on, placed in a public place or open space in a town
- paronychia — inflammation of the folds of skin bordering a nail of a finger or toe, usually characterized by infection and pus formation; felon.
- patchiness — characterized by or made up of patches.
- patchstand — a small tazza.
- pathogenic — Pathology. capable of producing disease: pathogenic bacteria.
- peacherino — peach1 (def 4).
- pentachord — a series of five consecutive notes of a scale
- pentaptych — a work of art consisting of five panels or sections.
- pentastich — a strophe, stanza, or poem consisting of five lines or verses.
- pentateuch — the first five books of the Old Testament: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.
- petrarchan — of, relating to, or characteristic of the works of Petrarch.
- ph balance — a method of expressing the degree of acidity or alkalinity of a solution
- phagedenic — a severe, destructive, eroding ulcer.
- phaneritic — (of a rock) having the principal constituents in the form of crystals visible to the naked eye.
- phantasmic — pertaining to or of the nature of a phantasm; unreal; illusory; spectral: phantasmal creatures of nightmare.
- phenacaine — a compound, C 1 8 H 2 2 N 2 O 2 , usually used in the form of its hydrochloride as a local anesthetic for the eye.
- phenacetin — a white, slightly water-soluble, crystalline solid, C 1 0 H 1 3 NO 2 , used in medicine chiefly as an agent for checking or preventing fever or for relieving pain: withdrawn because of unfavorable side effects.
- phoenician — a native or inhabitant of Phoenicia.
- phone call — telephone call
- phone card — calling card (def 3).
- phone-jack — to steal the mobile phone from (a person)
- phonematic — phonemic.
- phonetical — Also, phonetical. of or relating to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols.
- phonically — of or relating to speech sounds.
- phrenesiac — hypochondriacal
- phrensical — frenzical; frenzied
- picayunish — of little value or account; small; trifling: a picayune amount.
- picnic ham — a section of boned and smoked pork shoulder
- pina cloth — a fine, sheer fabric of pineapple-leaf fiber, used especially for lingerie.
- pitchwoman — a female pitchman