10-letter words containing c, h, i, s
- mysophobic — a dread of dirt or filth.
- mythicizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mythicize.
- nicholas i — Saint ("Nicholas the Great") died a.d. 867, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 858–867.
- nicholas v — (Thomas Parentucelli) 1397?–1455, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1447–55.
- nightclass — an evening lesson
- nightclubs — Plural form of nightclub.
- nightscape — a scene viewed at night, especially as represented in art.
- nightscope — An optical instrument that provides night vision.
- nightstick — a special club carried by a policeman; billy.
- nihilistic — of or believing in nihilism, or the total rejection of established laws and institutions: An exhibition of nihilistic art—now there's an oxymoron!
- nomarchies — Plural form of nomarchy.
- noviceship — The state or position of being a novice.
- ochronosis — An autosomal-recessive metabolic disorder that causes an excess of homogentisic acid, resulting in adverse pigmentation, calcification, and inflammation of cartilaginous and related tissue throughout the body.
- oireachtas — the parliament of the Republic of Ireland, consisting of the president, the Dail Eireann, and the Seanad Eireann.
- orchardist — a person who owns, manages, or cultivates an orchard.
- orchestics — the art of dancing
- orchestric — relating to dancing
- orchiditis — inflammation of the testis.
- orthoptics — a method of exercising the eye and its muscles in order to cure strabismus or improve vision.
- osterreich — German name of Austria.
- ostrichism — the act of refusing to accept reality or hiding one's head in the sand
- oven chips — chips or fries that can be cooked in the oven
- overstitch — a stitch made with a sewing machine, for binding or finishing a raw edge or hem.
- paraphasic — of, resembling, or exhibiting paraphasia
- parastichy — one of a number of seemingly secondary spirals or oblique ranks winding around the stem or axis to the right and left in a spiral arrangement of leaves, scales, etc., where the internodes are short and the members closely crowded, as in the houseleek and the pine cone.
- parischane — a parish
- paschal ii — (Ranieri) died 1118, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1099–1118.
- pasticheur — a person who makes, composes, or concocts a pastiche.
- patchiness — characterized by or made up of patches.
- patriarchs — the male head of a family or tribal line.
- 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.
- pentastich — a strophe, stanza, or poem consisting of five lines or verses.
- pettichaps — any of the warblers that belongs to the family Sylviinae
- phallicism — worship of the phallus, especially as symbolic of power or of the generative principle of nature.
- phantasmic — pertaining to or of the nature of a phantasm; unreal; illusory; spectral: phantasmal creatures of nightmare.
- pharmacist — a person licensed to prepare and dispense drugs and medicines; druggist; apothecary; pharmaceutical chemist.
- philippics — any of the orations delivered by Demosthenes, the Athenian orator, in the 4th century b.c., against Philip, king of Macedon.
- phlogistic — Pathology. inflammatory.
- phosphatic — of, relating to, or containing phosphates: phosphatic slag.
- phosphonic — of or relating to phosponic acid or anything derived from it
- phosphoric — of or containing phosphorus, especially in the pentavalent state.
- phrenesiac — hypochondriacal
- phrensical — frenzical; frenzied
- phthisical — pertaining to, of the nature of, or affected by phthisis.
- physiatric — physical medicine.
- physically — relating to the body or its appearance: He is not physically attractive.
- physicking — a medicine that purges; cathartic; laxative.
- 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.
- picayunish — of little value or account; small; trifling: a picayune amount.
- pick holes — If you pick holes in an argument or theory, you find weak points in it so that it is no longer valid.