10-letter words containing c, a, n, h
- chinquapin — a dwarf chestnut tree, Castanea pumila, of the eastern US, yielding edible nuts
- chinstraps — Plural form of chinstrap.
- chinwagged — Simple past tense and past participle of chinwag.
- chionodoxa — any plant of the liliaceous genus Chionodoxa, of S Europe and W Asia
- chip wagon — a small van in which chips are cooked and sold
- chiromancy — palmistry
- chitarrone — a large lute with a double neck in common use during the baroque period, esp in Italy
- chittagong — a port in E Bangladesh, on the Bay of Bengal: industrial centre. Pop: 4 171 000 (2005 est)
- chloramine — an unstable colourless liquid with a pungent odour, made by the reaction of sodium hypochlorite and ammonia. Formula: NH2Cl
- chlorinate — to combine or treat (a substance) with chlorine
- choanocyte — any of the flagellated cells in sponges that maintain a flow of water through the body. A collar of protoplasm surrounds the base of the flagellum
- chondromas — Plural form of chondroma.
- chopfallen — chapfallen
- chromaffin — showing a brown colour when in the presence of chromic acid
- chromagens — Plural form of chromagen.
- chromatins — Plural form of chromatin.
- chromonema — a coiled chromatin thread within a single chromosome
- chronogram — a phrase or inscription in which letters such as M, C, X, L, and V can be read as Roman numerals giving a date
- chrononaut — (science fiction, dated) A time-traveller.
- chrysophan — a glucoside that is bitter to the taste and yellow in colour
- chuang-tzu — Also, Chwang-tse. (Chuang Chow) flourished 4th century b.c, Chinese mystic and philosopher.
- chuckwagon — A wagon equipped with food and cooking utensils, as on a ranch or in a lumber camp.
- churnalism — a type of journalism that relies on reusing existing material such as press releases and wire service reports instead of original research, esp as a result of an increased demand for news content
- chwang-tse — Chuang-tzu (def 1).
- clannishly — In a clannish manner.
- clashingly — In a clashing manner.
- clean-tech — using clean technology
- cliff-hang — to wait eagerly for the outcome of a suspenseful situation or contest.
- clinograph — (in mining, construction, etc.) an instrument that records the deviation of boreholes or the like from the vertical.
- co-channel — denoting or relating to a radio transmission that is on the same frequency channel as another
- coathanger — Alternative spelling of coat hanger.
- cochairman — a person who cochairs an organization
- cochampion — a joint champion
- coelacanth — a primitive marine bony fish of the genus Latimeria (subclass Crossopterygii), having fleshy limblike pectoral fins and occurring off the coast of E Africa: thought to be extinct until a living specimen was discovered in 1938
- cohabitant — a person living together with another or others
- cohabiting — to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
- cohobating — Present participle of cohobate.
- cohobation — (dated, chemistry) The boiling of a material in a liquid with the repeated return of the distillate.
- collophane — a massive, cryptocrystalline variety of apatite that is the principal component of phosphate rock and fossil bone.
- comanchean — of or relating to the early part of the Cretaceous system and period
- comanchero — (in 19th-century New Mexico) a trader who traded with the Native American nomadic tribes such as the Comanche, Navajo, and Apache
- commandeth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of command.
- conchoidal — (of the fracture of minerals and rocks) having smooth shell-shaped convex and concave surfaces
- condylarth — any of the primitive ungulate mammals of the extinct order Condylarthra, from the Paleocene and Eocene epochs, having a slender body, low-crowned teeth, and five-toed feet, each toe ending in a small hoof.
- containeth — Archaic third-person singular form of contain.
- contrahent — entering into an agreement or contract
- copenhagen — the capital of Denmark, a port on Zealand and the Amager Islands on a site inhabited for some 6000 years: exports chiefly agricultural products; iron and steel works; university (1479). Pop: 501 664 (2004 est)
- corinthian — of, characteristic of, or relating to Corinth
- cornishman — a man who is a native or inhabitant of Cornwall
- cornstarch — Cornstarch is the same as cornflour.