10-letter words containing c, h, a, n, s
- nomarchies — Plural form of nomarchy.
- nonstarchy — Alternative spelling of non-starchy.
- notchbacks — Plural form of notchback.
- nuthatches — Plural form of nuthatch.
- parischane — a parish
- patchiness — characterized by or made up of patches.
- patchstand — a small tazza.
- pentastich — a strophe, stanza, or poem consisting of five lines or verses.
- phantasmic — pertaining to or of the nature of a phantasm; unreal; illusory; spectral: phantasmal creatures of nightmare.
- phrenesiac — hypochondriacal
- phrensical — frenzical; frenzied
- picayunish — of little value or account; small; trifling: a picayune amount.
- poachiness — the state of being poachy
- pocahontas — (Rebecca Rolfe) 1595?–1617, American Indian woman who is said to have prevented the execution of Captain John Smith.
- postlaunch — relating to or occurring in the period after a launch
- preachings — the act or practice of a person who preaches.
- purchasing — buying
- puschkinia — a small spring-flowering bulb, Puschkinia scilloides, of Asia Minor and the Caucasus, having white or pale blue flowers striped with dark blue
- rachmanism — extortion or exploitation by a landlord of tenants of dilapidated or slum property, esp when involving intimidation or use of racial fears to drive out sitting tenants whose rent is fixed at a low rate
- ranshackle — to ransack
- reichsbank — the former German national bank.
- revanchism — an advocate or supporter of a political policy of revanche, especially in order to seek vengeance for a previous military defeat.
- revanchist — an advocate or supporter of a political policy of revanche, especially in order to seek vengeance for a previous military defeat.
- richardson — Henry Handel (Henrietta Richardson Robertson) 1870–1946, Australian novelist.
- ritschlian — of or relating to the theology of Albrecht Ritschl (1822–89), who developed a liberal Christian theology and maintained that religious faith is based on value judgments.
- saccharine — of the nature of or resembling that of sugar: a powdery substance with a saccharine taste.
- sand chair — a low folding beach chair with a frame, usually of tubular metal, that slants outward below the seat, forming a base designed to be rested in the sand.
- sand perch — squirrelfish.
- sand yacht — land yacht.
- sandwiched — two or more slices of bread or the like with a layer of meat, fish, cheese, etc., between each pair.
- sanmicheli — Michele [mee-ke-le] /miˈkɛ lɛ/ (Show IPA), 1484–1559, Italian architect and military engineer.
- sash chain — a chain for connecting a vertically sliding window sash with a counterweight.
- schalstein — a slate-like rock formed by shearing basaltic or andesitic tuff or lava
- scharwenka — (Ludwig) Philipp [loot-vikh fee-lip] /ˈlut vɪx ˈfi lɪp/ (Show IPA), 1847–1917, German composer.
- scherzando — (a musical direction) playful; sportive.
- schliemann — Heinrich [hahyn-rikh] /ˈhaɪn rɪx/ (Show IPA), 1822–90, German archaeologist: excavated ancient cities of Troy and Mycenae.
- schnozzola — a nose, especially one of unusually large size.
- schongauer — Martin [mahr-tn;; German mahr-teen] /ˈmɑr tn;; German ˈmɑr tin/ (Show IPA), c1430–91, German engraver and painter.
- schooligan — a person of school age who engages in acts of public disorder
- scratching — to break, mar, or mark the surface of by rubbing, scraping, or tearing with something sharp or rough: to scratch one's hand on a nail.
- scrimshank — to avoid one's obligations or share of work; shirk.
- scyphozoan — any coelenterate of the class Scyphozoa, comprising the true marine jellyfishes.
- sea anchor — any of various devices, as a drogue, that have great resistance to being pulled through the water and are dropped forward of a vessel at the end of a cable to hold the bow into the wind or sea during a storm.
- sea change — a striking change, as in appearance, often for the better.
- sea urchin — any echinoderm of the class Echinoidea, having a somewhat globular or discoid form, and a shell composed of many calcareous plates covered with projecting spines.
- seannachie — a Gaelic storyteller in the Scottish Highlands or in Ireland
- secondhand — not directly known or experienced; obtained from others or from books: Most of our knowledge is secondhand.
- sex change — the alteration, by surgery and hormone treatments, of a person's physical sex characteristics to approximate those of the opposite sex: Born male, she now lives as a woman but has no plans for a sex change.
- shackleton — Sir Ernest Henry, 1874–1922, English explorer of the Antarctic.
- shankpiece — a piece of metal or fiber for giving form to the shank of a shoe.