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10-letter words containing c, h, i, r

  • bronchitis — Bronchitis is an illness like a very bad cough, in which your bronchial tubes become sore and infected.
  • burchfield — Charles Ephraim, 1893–1967, U.S. painter.
  • caerphilly — a market town in SE Wales, in Caerphilly county borough: site of the largest castle in Wales (13th–14th centuries). Pop: 31 060 (2001)
  • caipirinha — A Brazilian cocktail made with cachaca, lime or lemon juice, sugar, and crushed ice.
  • caligraphy — Alternative form of calligraphy.
  • calligraph — to produce by means of calligraphy: The love letter was calligraphed in a delicate hand.
  • camel hair — the hair of the camel, used especially for cloth, painters' brushes, and Oriental rugs.
  • camel-hair — A camel-hair coat is made of a kind of soft, thick woollen cloth, usually creamy-brown in colour.
  • camelshair — (attributive) The hair of a camel, used for paintbrushes etc.
  • camp chair — a lightweight folding chair
  • camp shirt — a short-sleeved shirt or blouse with a notched collar and usually two breast pockets.
  • campership — financial aid given to a needy youngster to attend summer camp.
  • cane chair — a chair, the back and seat of which are made of interlaced strips of cane.
  • carchemish — an ancient city in Syria on the Euphrates, lying on major trade routes; site of a victory of the Babylonians over the Egyptians (605 bc)
  • careership — An approach to career-related decision-making, combining rationality, interactions with others, and responses to sometimes unpredictable events.
  • cargo ship — a ship carrying cargo
  • carhopping — the practice of serving customers at a drive-in restaurant
  • carmichael — Hoaglund Howard (ˈhəʊɡlənd), known as Hoagy. 1899–1981, US pianist, singer, and composer of such standards as "Star Dust" (1929)
  • carthamine — a yellow or red dye obtained from safflower
  • carthusian — a member of an austere monastic order founded by Saint Bruno in 1084 near Grenoble, France
  • cartoonish — like a cartoon, esp in being one-dimensional, brightly coloured, or exaggerated
  • cartophile — a cartophilist
  • cartophily — the hobby of collecting cigarette cards
  • cartwright — a person who makes carts
  • cash price — discount
  • cash prize — a prize in a competition that takes the form of money
  • cash ratio — the ratio of cash on hand to total deposits that by law or custom commercial banks must maintain
  • cashiering — to dismiss (a military officer) from service, especially with disgrace.
  • cat-harpin — any of a number of short ropes or rods for gathering in shrouds near their tops.
  • 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.
  • catarrhine — (of apes and Old World monkeys) having the nostrils set close together and opening to the front of the face
  • catch fire — to ignite
  • catechizer — One who catechizes.
  • cathartics — Plural form of cathartic.
  • catwhisker — a sharply pointed, flexible wire used to make contact with a specific point on a semiconductor or a crystal detector
  • censorship — Censorship is the censoring of books, plays, films, or reports, especially by government officials, because they are considered immoral or secret in some way.
  • chaffering — Present participle of chaffer.
  • chagrining — Present participle of chagrin.
  • chagrinned — a feeling of vexation, marked by disappointment or humiliation.
  • chain fern — any of several ferns of the genus Woodwardia, having a chainlike row of sori on either side of the midrib of each fertile leaflet.
  • chain gear — a gear assembly in which motion is transmitted by means of a chain.
  • chain rule — a theorem that may be used in the differentiation of the function of a function. It states that du/dx = (du/dy)(dy/dx), where y is a function of x and u a function of y
  • chain-work — any decorative product, handiwork, etc., in which parts are looped or woven together, like the links of a chain.
  • chainbrake — a device for cutting off the power to a chainsaw if the saw kicks back
  • chair lift — A chair lift is a line of chairs that hang from a moving cable and carry people up and down a mountain or ski slope.
  • chair rail — a molding on an interior wall for preventing the backs of chairs from rubbing against plaster.
  • chairborne — having an administrative or desk job rather than a more active one
  • chairbound — unable to walk; dependent on a wheelchair for mobility
  • chairlifts — Plural form of chairlift.
  • chairwoman — The chairwoman of a meeting, committee, or organization is the woman in charge of it.
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