10-letter words containing c, h, a, o
- chrysocale — a copper alloy containing zinc and lead.
- chrysophan — a glucoside that is bitter to the taste and yellow in colour
- chuckwagon — A wagon equipped with food and cooking utensils, as on a ranch or in a lumber camp.
- chylaceous — of or resembling chyle.
- chyloderma — (medicine) swelling of the scrotum resulting from chronic lymphatic obstruction.
- cibachrome — the old name for the Ilfochrome photographic printing process
- cibophobia — The fear of, or aversion to, eating or food.
- ciliophora — a phylum of protozoa in the kingdom Protista, comprising the ciliates.
- cladophyll — a green, flattened branch arising from the axil of a leaf, with the shape and functions of a foliage leaf
- clavichord — A clavichord is a musical instrument rather like a small piano. When you press the keys, small pieces of metal come up and hit the strings. Clavichords were especially popular during the eighteenth century.
- climograph — A chart that summarizes the climate of a place by superimposing a line graph representing average monthly temperature on a bar chart representing average monthly precipitation.
- clinograph — (in mining, construction, etc.) an instrument that records the deviation of boreholes or the like from the vertical.
- cloth beam — a roller, located at the front of a loom, on which woven material is wound after it leaves the breast beam.
- cloth ears — a deaf person
- cloth yard — a medieval unit of measure for cloth, fixed at 37 inches by Edward VI of England: also used as a length for longbow arrows
- co-channel — denoting or relating to a radio transmission that is on the same frequency channel as another
- coach bolt — a large round-headed bolt used esp to secure wood to masonry
- coach park — an area reserved for parking coaches
- coach trip — any tour, journey, or voyage made by bus
- coachloads — Plural form of coachload.
- coachmaker — A coachbuilder.
- coal chute — an inclined channel or vertical passage down which coal may be dropped
- coalheaver — One who feeds coal into a furnace.
- coat check — The coat check at a public building such as a theater or club is the place where customers can leave their coats, usually for a small fee.
- coathanger — Alternative spelling of coat hanger.
- coatsworth — Elizabeth, 1893–1986, U.S. writer, especially of children's books.
- coauthored — one of two or more joint authors.
- cochabamba — a city in central Bolivia. Pop: 561 000 (2005 est)
- cochairman — a person who cochairs an organization
- cochampion — a joint champion
- cochlearia — Plural form of cochlearium.
- cockchafer — any of various Old World scarabaeid beetles, esp Melolontha melolontha of Europe, whose larvae feed on crops and grasses
- cocked hat — A cocked hat is a hat with three corners that used to be worn with some uniforms.
- 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
- cohabitate — cohabit.
- 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.
- cold-patch — to apply a cold patch to.
- coleorhiza — a protective sheath around the radicle in grasses
- collagraph — An artistic print made through the printmaking process of collagraphy.
- collophane — a massive, cryptocrystalline variety of apatite that is the principal component of phosphate rock and fossil bone.
- colourwash — a coloured distemper
- 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.