10-letter words containing c, h, a, p, e, r
- pas marche — a marching step.
- pasticheur — a person who makes, composes, or concocts a pastiche.
- patch reef — an isolated coral growth forming a small platform in a lagoon, barrier reef, or atoll.
- pe teacher — a teacher of Physical Education
- peacherino — peach1 (def 4).
- pentachord — a series of five consecutive notes of a scale
- perithecia — the fruiting body of ascomycetous fungi, typically a minute, more or less completely closed, globose or flask-shaped body enclosing the asci.
- peritricha — ciliate protozoans, of the order Peritrichida, in which the cilia are restricted to a spiral around the mouth
- petrarchan — of, relating to, or characteristic of the works of Petrarch.
- phaneritic — (of a rock) having the principal constituents in the form of crystals visible to the naked eye.
- phone card — calling card (def 3).
- phrenesiac — hypochondriacal
- phrensical — frenzical; frenzied
- phylactery — Judaism. either of two small, black, leather cubes containing a piece of parchment inscribed with verses 4–9 of Deut. 6, 13–21 of Deut. 11, and 1–16 of Ex. 13: one is attached with straps to the left arm and the other to the forehead during weekday morning prayers by Orthodox and Conservative Jewish men.
- pre-launch — preparatory to launch, as of a spacecraft.
- preachings — the act or practice of a person who preaches.
- preachment — the act of preaching.
- prechamber — A prechamber in an engine is a small area, usually in the cylinder head, in which combustion is started before fuel enters into the main combustion chamber.
- pt teacher — a teacher of Physical Training
- ratchet up — If something ratchets up or is ratcheted up, it increases by a fixed amount or degree, and seems unlikely to decrease again.
- reapproach — to come near or nearer to: The cars slowed down as they approached the intersection.
- redispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- reproached — to find fault with (a person, group, etc.); blame; censure.
- repurchase — to buy again; regain by purchase.
- sand perch — squirrelfish.
- sarcophile — a flesh-eating animal, especially the Tasmanian devil.
- scrap heap — a pile of old, discarded material, as metal.
- scrap-heap — a pile of old, discarded material, as metal.
- semaphoric — an apparatus for conveying information by means of visual signals, as a light whose position may be changed.
- sepulchral — of, relating to, or serving as a tomb.
- sheep race — a single-file walkway for sheep at the entrance to a sheep-dip
- sheeptrack — a small natural terrace on a hillside
- shower cap — a plastic cap worn in the shower to keep the hair dry
- spycatcher — a person who works in counterintelligence to detect enemy espionage activities
- subchapter — a subdivision especially of a body of laws.
- supermacho — extremely macho
- the parcae — the Roman goddesses of fate
- touchpaper — paper saturated with potassium nitrate to make it burn slowly, used for igniting explosives and fireworks.
- vectograph — a technology that uses special glasses to see a photographic image between two plastic sheets as three dimensional
- what price — You use what price in front of a word or expression that refers to something happening when you want to ask how likely it is to happen. You usually do this to emphasize either that it is very likely or very unlikely.