10-letter words containing c, e, a, s
- grey-scale — (graphics) (US "gray-scale") 1. Composed of (discrete) shades of grey. If the pixels of a grey-scale image have N bits, they may take values from zero, representing black up to 2^N-1, representing white with intermediate values representing increasingly light shades of grey. If N=1 the image is not called grey-scale but could be called monochrome. 2. A range of acurately known shades of grey printed out for use in calibrating those shades on a display or printer.
- grievances — Plural form of grievance.
- gynarchies — Plural form of gynarchy.
- hack house — Falconry. a shed where young hawks are kept and fed while at hack.
- hackamores — Plural form of hackamore.
- hackensack — a city in NE New Jersey, near New York City.
- hackeysack — A non-competition sport in which a small sack, or
- haemocoels — Plural form of haemocoel.
- hagioscope — squint (def 13).
- hair space — the thinnest metal space used to separate words, symbols, etc.
- hairpieces — Plural form of hairpiece.
- half-caste — a contemptuous term used to refer to a person of mixed racial or ethnic descent.
- halieutics — (literature) A treatise upon fish or the art of fishing.
- haloclines — Plural form of halocline.
- hamesucken — the offence of attacking a person in his or her own dwelling
- hamshackle — to hobble (a cow, horse, etc) by tying a rope around the head and one of the legs
- han cities — a group of three cities in E central China (Hanyang, Hankow, and Wuchang), in SE Hubei at the confluence of the Han and Yangtze Rivers; united in 1950 to form the conurbation of Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province
- hand screw — a screw that can be tightened by the fingers, without the aid of a tool.
- handpieces — Plural form of handpiece.
- hard sauce — a mixture of butter and confectioners' sugar, often with flavoring and cream.
- hardcovers — Plural form of hardcover.
- haruspices — Plural form of haruspex.
- hatcheries — Plural form of hatchery.
- hatchments — Plural form of hatchment.
- haversacks — Plural form of haversack.
- hawfinches — Plural form of hawfinch.
- headcheese — a seasoned loaf made of the head meat, sometimes including the tongue or brains, of a calf or pig and molded in the natural aspic of the head.
- headpieces — Plural form of headpiece.
- headstocks — Plural form of headstock.
- heart case — a patient undergoing treatment for a heart condition
- heartaches — Plural form of heartache.
- hebraistic — of or relating to Hebraists or characterized by Hebraism or Hebraisms.
- 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.
- heptastich — a strophe, stanza, or poem consisting of seven lines or verses.
- heraclitus — ("the Obscure") c540–c470 b.c, Greek philosopher.
- herbaceous — of, relating to, or characteristic of an herb; herblike.
- heresiarch — a leader in heresy; the leader of a heretical sect.
- heresimach — a person engaged in combating heresy and heretics.
- hexachords — Plural form of hexachord.
- hindrances — Plural form of hindrance.
- home scrap — scrap steel reprocessed in the steel mill in which it was produced.
- 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.
- 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.