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10-letter words containing c, h, a, p, e

  • oxycephaly — a malformation in which the head is somewhat pointed, caused by premature closure of the skull sutures.
  • pachymeter — an instrument for measuring thickness
  • pack-horse — a horse used for carrying goods, freight, supplies, etc.
  • packthread — a strong thread or twine for sewing or tying up packages.
  • page chair — a chair of the 18th century having deep wings continued to form an arch over the seat.
  • palm beach — a town in SE Florida: seaside winter resort.
  • pantheonic — a domed circular temple at Rome, erected a.d. 120–124 by Hadrian, used as a church since a.d.
  • parenchyma — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
  • parischane — a parish
  • park bench — a long seat made of wood or metal that two or more people can sit on, placed in a public place or open space in a town
  • 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.
  • patch test — Medicine/Medical. a test for suspected allergy by application to the skin of a patch impregnated with an allergen: allergic reaction is indicated by redness at the site of application.
  • patchcocke — a clown
  • patchiness — characterized by or made up of patches.
  • pathetical — causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight.
  • pathogenic — Pathology. capable of producing disease: pathogenic bacteria.
  • pay cheque — Your pay cheque is a piece of paper that your employer gives you as your wages or salary, and which you can then cash at a bank. You can also use pay cheque as a way of referring to your wages or salary.
  • pe teacher — a teacher of Physical Education
  • peach palm — a palm, Bactris gasipaes, having very spiny, tall stems, widely cultivated in the New World tropics for its edible fruit and palm hearts.
  • peach-blow — a delicate purplish pink.
  • peacherino — peach1 (def 4).
  • peacockish — the male of the peafowl distinguished by its long, erectile, greenish, iridescent tail coverts that are brilliantly marked with ocellated spots and that can be spread in a fan.
  • pentachord — a series of five consecutive notes of a scale
  • pentaptych — a work of art consisting of five panels or sections.
  • pentastich — a strophe, stanza, or poem consisting of five lines or verses.
  • pentateuch — the first five books of the Old Testament: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.
  • 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
  • petechiate — having or marked with petechiae.
  • petrarchan — of, relating to, or characteristic of the works of Petrarch.
  • pettichaps — any of the warblers that belongs to the family Sylviinae
  • petty cash — funds kept for minor expenses
  • ph balance — a method of expressing the degree of acidity or alkalinity of a solution
  • phagedenic — a severe, destructive, eroding ulcer.
  • phaneritic — (of a rock) having the principal constituents in the form of crystals visible to the naked eye.
  • phenacaine — a compound, C 1 8 H 2 2 N 2 O 2 , usually used in the form of its hydrochloride as a local anesthetic for the eye.
  • phenacetin — a white, slightly water-soluble, crystalline solid, C 1 0 H 1 3 NO 2 , used in medicine chiefly as an agent for checking or preventing fever or for relieving pain: withdrawn because of unfavorable side effects.
  • philatelic — the collecting of stamps and other postal matter as a hobby or an investment.
  • phlegmatic — not easily excited to action or display of emotion; apathetic; sluggish.
  • phocomelia — a usually congenital deformity of the extremities in which the limbs are abnormally short.
  • phoenician — a native or inhabitant of Phoenicia.
  • phone call — telephone call
  • phone card — calling card (def 3).
  • phone-jack — to steal the mobile phone from (a person)
  • phonematic — phonemic.
  • phonetical — Also, phonetical. of or relating to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols.
  • phrenesiac — hypochondriacal
  • phrensical — frenzical; frenzied
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