10-letter words containing c, h, a, t
- camp shirt — a short-sleeved shirt or blouse with a notched collar and usually two breast pockets.
- camphorate — to apply, treat with, or impregnate with camphor
- can't help — If you say you can't help thinking something, you are expressing your opinion in an indirect way, often because you think it seems rude.
- caoutchouc — rubber; esp. India rubber, or crude, natural rubber, obtained from latex
- cape dutch — (in South Africa) a distinctive style of furniture or architecture
- cape wrath — a promontory at the NW extremity of the Scottish mainland
- cape-wrath — Cape, a high promontory in NW Scotland: most NW point on mainland.
- carmarthen — a market town in S Wales, the administrative centre of Carmarthenshire: Norman castle. Pop: 14 648 (2001)
- cart horse — A cart horse is a large, powerful horse that is used to pull carts or farm machinery.
- carthamine — a yellow or red dye obtained from safflower
- carthorses — Plural form of carthorse.
- carthusian — a member of an austere monastic order founded by Saint Bruno in 1084 near Grenoble, France
- cartograph — the production of maps, including construction of projections, design, compilation, drafting, and reproduction.
- cartoonish — like a cartoon, esp in being one-dimensional, brightly coloured, or exaggerated
- cartophile — a cartophilist
- cartophily — the hobby of collecting cigarette cards
- cartouches — Plural form of cartouche.
- cartwheels — Plural form of cartwheel.
- cartwright — a person who makes carts
- cash audit — an audit confined to cash transactions for a prescribed period, for the purpose of determining the amount of cash on hand or on deposit in a bank.
- cash limit — a limit imposed as a method of curtailing overall expenditure without specifying the precise means of budgetary control
- cash ratio — the ratio of cash on hand to total deposits that by law or custom commercial banks must maintain
- cash terms — the terms of a business transaction that is conducted in ready money
- cashew nut — edible nut
- cashpoints — Plural form of cashpoint.
- cat-harpin — any of a number of short ropes or rods for gathering in shrouds near their tops.
- catananche — any of the hardy perennial genus Catananche, from S Europe; some, esp C. caerulea, are grown for their blue-and-white flowers that can be dried as winter decoration: family Asteraceae
- cataphasia — a speech disorder in which a person constantly repeats a word or phrase.
- cataphasis — Rhetoric. the use of affirmative statements to discuss a subject; affirmation through positive statements.
- cataphatic — (theology) Pertaining to the expression of God in terms of what God is, rather than (apophatic) in terms of what God is not.
- cataphonic — catacoustic or of or relating to cataphonics
- cataphoric — the use of a word or phrase to refer to a following word or group of words, as the use of the phrase as follows.
- cataphract — a defensive armour, often made of link mail, used for the entire body
- catarrhine — (of apes and Old World monkeys) having the nostrils set close together and opening to the front of the face
- catch cold — to become ill with a cold
- catch crop — a quick-growing crop planted between two regular crops grown in consecutive seasons, or between two rows of regular crops in the same season
- catch fire — to ignite
- catch hell — to receive a severe scolding, punishment, etc.
- catch-colt — the offspring of a mare bred accidentally.
- catch-cord — a cord or wire located near a selvage, used to form a loop or deflect the filling yarn not intended to be woven permanently in with the regular selvage.
- catch-ups' — an effort to reach or pass a norm, especially after a period of delay: After the slowdown there was a catch-up in production.
- catchbasin — Alternative form of catch-basin.
- catchflies — Plural form of catchfly.
- catchiness — The state or quality of being catchy.
- catchments — Plural form of catchment.
- catchpenny — designed to have instant appeal, esp in order to sell quickly and easily without regard for quality
- catchwater — a drain or ditch which catches water
- catchwords — Plural form of catchword.
- catechesis — oral religious instruction which is given to catechumens
- catechetic — of or relating to catechesis.