10-letter words containing c, h, a, t
- physiocrat — one of a school of political economists who followed Quesnay in holding that an inherent natural order properly governed society, regarding land as the basis of wealth and taxation, and advocating a laissez-faire economy.
- pictograph — pictogram
- pina cloth — a fine, sheer fabric of pineapple-leaf fiber, used especially for lingerie.
- pitch lake — a deposit of natural asphalt in SW Trinidad, West Indies. 114 acres (47 hectares).
- pitch-dark — dark or black as pitch: a pitch-dark night.
- pitchwoman — a female pitchman
- plainchant — plainsong (defs 1, 2).
- planchette — a small, heart-shaped board supported by two casters and a pencil or stylus that, when moved across a surface by the light, unguided pressure of the fingertips, is supposed to trace meaningful patterns or written messages revealing subconscious thoughts, psychic phenomena, clairvoyant messages, etc.
- pocahontas — (Rebecca Rolfe) 1595?–1617, American Indian woman who is said to have prevented the execution of Captain John Smith.
- polychaete — any annelid of the class Polychaeta, having unsegmented swimming appendages with many setae or bristles.
- polymathic — a person of great learning in several fields of study; polyhistor.
- postlaunch — relating to or occurring in the period after a launch
- preachment — the act of preaching.
- prognathic — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- psychiatry — the practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders.
- psychopath — a person with a psychopathic personality, which manifests as amoral and antisocial behavior, lack of ability to love or establish meaningful personal relationships, extreme egocentricity, failure to learn from experience, etc.
- pt teacher — a teacher of Physical Training
- pyracantha — firethorn.
- quickhatch — a wolverine.
- rachiotomy — (surgery) The surgical procedure of cutting, or making an incision in a vertebra.
- rat cheese — inexpensive cheese, especially domestic cheddar.
- ratcatcher — a person, animal, or thing that catches and exterminates rats, especially a person whose business it is to rid a property of rats.
- ratchet up — If something ratchets up or is ratcheted up, it increases by a fixed amount or degree, and seems unlikely to decrease again.
- ratcheting — a toothed bar with which a pawl engages.
- reattached — to fasten or affix; join; connect: to attach a photograph to an application with a staple.
- redispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- reteaching — to impart knowledge of or skill in; give instruction in: She teaches mathematics. Synonyms: coach.
- revanchist — an advocate or supporter of a political policy of revanche, especially in order to seek vengeance for a previous military defeat.
- rheostatic — an adjustable resistor so constructed that its resistance may be changed without opening the circuit in which it is connected, thereby controlling the current in the circuit.
- rhetorical — used for, belonging to, or concerned with mere style or effect.
- rheumatics — pertaining to or of the nature of rheumatism.
- rhinotheca — the covering of the upper part of the beak in birds
- rhotacized — to change (a sound) to an (r); subject to rhotacism.
- rhythmical — periodic, as motion, or a drumbeat.
- right face — Military. a command, given to a soldier or soldiers at attention, to turn the body about toward the right so as to face in the opposite direction. the act of so turning in a prescribed military manner.
- 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.
- rom. cath. — Roman Catholic
- routemarch — march in which a unit retains its column formation but individuals are allowed to break step.
- sabretache — a leather case suspended from a cavalryman's saddle
- sacahuista — a North American flowering grass
- saccharate — a salt of saccharic acid.
- salt chuck — the ocean.
- samothrace — a Greek island in the NE Aegean.
- sand yacht — land yacht.
- satchelful — the amount a satchel will hold
- scatheless — to attack with severe criticism.
- scatophagy — the act of eating dung or excrement
- schalstein — a slate-like rock formed by shearing basaltic or andesitic tuff or lava
- schematism — the particular form or disposition of a thing.
- schematist — a person who forms schemes; a schemer