10-letter words containing c, h, i, k
- china bark — cinchona (sense 2)
- china silk — a lightweight silk fabric constructed in plain weave, often used for linings, blouses, slips, etc.
- chipmunked — Simple past tense and past participle of chipmunk.
- choke coil — an inductor used to limit or suppress alternating current without stopping direct current
- chokepoint — a place of greatest congestion and often hazard; bottleneck.
- chopsticks — a pair of small sticks of wood or ivory, held together in one hand and used in some Asian countries as utensils, as to lift food to the mouth
- chowkidars — Plural form of chowkidar.
- christlike — resembling or showing the spirit of Jesus Christ
- chunkiness — The state of being chunky.
- churchlike — resembling or appropriate to a church: churchlike silence.
- cloth-like — resembling cloth
- cockfights — Plural form of cockfight.
- cook-chill — a method of food preparation used by caterers, in which cooked dishes are chilled rapidly and reheated as required
- cruikshank — George. 1792–1878, English illustrator and caricaturist
- deck chair — A deck chair is a simple chair with a folding frame, and a piece of canvas as the seat and back. Deck chairs are usually used on the beach, on a ship, or in the yard.
- deck light — a skylight for a 'tween deck, built flush with the upper deck.
- deckchairs — Plural form of deckchair.
- dick-heads — dick (def 3).
- disk crash — the failure of a disk storage system, usually resulting from the read-write head touching the moving disk surface and causing mechanical damage
- doohickeys — Plural form of doohickey.
- ekphrastic — Pertaining to ekphrasis; clear, lucid.
- fight back — retaliate
- fish stick — an oblong piece of fried fish, usually breaded.
- french kid — kidskin tanned by an alum or vegetable process and finished in a manner originally employed by the French.
- hackintosh — 1. (jargon, computer) An Apple Lisa that has been hacked into emulating a Macintosh (also called a "Mac XL"). 2. (jargon, computer) A Macintosh assembled from parts theoretically belonging to different models in the line.
- hackneying — Present participle of hackney.
- hacktivism — the practice of gaining unauthorized access to a computer system and carrying out various disruptive actions as a means of achieving political or social goals: In this form of hacktivism, the hacker tries to alter or deface a government website.
- hacktivist — the practice of gaining unauthorized access to a computer system and carrying out various disruptive actions as a means of achieving political or social goals: In this form of hacktivism, the hacker tries to alter or deface a government website.
- handpicked — Picked by hand; picked or selected with care.
- hectokilo- — one hundred thousand; the factor 105
- henpecking — Present participle of henpeck.
- hicksville — a town on W Long Island, in SE New York.
- high-stick — to strike (an opponent) at shoulder level or above with a hockey stick.
- highjacker — a person who hijacks.
- hijackings — Plural form of hijacking.
- hip pocket — back pocket of trousers
- hit wicket — an instance of a batsman breaking the wicket with the bat or a part of the body while playing a stroke and so being out
- hitchhiked — Simple past tense and past participle of hitchhike.
- hitchhiker — to travel by standing on the side of the road and soliciting rides from passing vehicles.
- hitchhikes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hitchhike.
- hop-picker — a person employed or a machine used to pick hops
- hopsacking — bagging made chiefly of hemp and jute.
- hot ticket — an extremely popular or trendy person or thing; a person or thing in high demand.
- house dick — house detective.
- hystericky — prone to or characterized by hysteria
- ice hockey — a game played on ice between two teams of six skaters each, the object being to score goals by shooting a puck into the opponents' cage using a stick with a wooden blade set at an obtuse angle to the shaft.
- in hock to — If you are in hock to someone, you feel you have to do things for them because they have given you money or support.
- intershock — To shock mutually, as if by collision.
- jack chain — a chain having open links in the form of a figure 8, with one loop at right angles to the other.
- jinricksha — Alternative spelling of jinriksha.