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10-letter words containing c, h, l, a

  • blackshirt — (in Europe) a member of a fascist organization, esp a member of the Italian Fascist party before and during World War II
  • blacksmith — A blacksmith is a person whose job is making things by hand out of metal that has been heated to a high temperature.
  • blackthorn — a thorny Eurasian rosaceous shrub, Prunus spinosa, with black twigs, white flowers, and small sour plumlike fruits
  • brachylogy — a concise style in speech or writing
  • brainchild — Someone's brainchild is an idea or invention that they have thought up or created.
  • broadcloth — fabric woven on a wide loom
  • bucephalus — the favourite horse of Alexander the Great
  • buchenwald — a village in E central Germany, near Weimar; site of a Nazi concentration camp (1937–45)
  • bull chain — a chain for dragging logs to a sawmill.
  • cablephoto — a photographic image transmitted via cable, especially for use by newspapers or in police work.
  • cache line — (storage)   (Or cache block) The smallest unit of memory than can be transferred between the main memory and the cache. Rather than reading a single word or byte from main memory at a time, each cache entry is usually holds a certain number of words, known as a "cache line" or "cache block" and a whole line is read and cached at once. This takes advantage of the principle of locality of reference: if one location is read then nearby locations (particularly following locations) are likely to be read soon afterward. It can also take advantage of page-mode DRAM which allows faster access to consecutive locations.
  • 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)
  • calabashes — Plural form of calabash.
  • calciphile — calcicole.
  • calciphobe — calcifuge.
  • caligraphy — Alternative form of calligraphy.
  • caliphates — Plural form of caliphate.
  • call forth — to cause (something) to come into action or existence
  • call house — a house or apartment used by prostitutes for arranging or keeping assignations.
  • callathump — a shivaree.
  • calligraph — to produce by means of calligraphy: The love letter was calligraphed in a delicate hand.
  • callithump — a noisy band or parade
  • 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.
  • caml light — A small portable implementation of a version of CAML by Xavier Leroy <[email protected]> and Damien Doligez of INRIA. Caml Light uses a bytecode interpreter written in C. It adds a Modula-2-like module system, separate compilation, lazy streams for parsing and printing, graphics primitives and an interface with C. Version 0.6 runs on Unix, MS-DOS, Macintosh, Atari ST and Amiga. It includes an interpreter, compiler, Emacs mode, libraries, scanner generator, parser generator, run-time support and an interactive development environment. The latest version, as of April 2003, is 0.75 and runs on Unix, Macintosh and Windows. The development of Caml Light has been stopped; current development is on Objective Caml. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Mailing list: <[email protected]>.
  • 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.
  • candlefish — a salmonoid food fish, Thaleichthys pacificus, that occurs in the N Pacific and has oily flesh
  • canophilia — the love of dogs
  • capnophile — (biology) A microorganism that requires or grows best in presence of high concentrations of carbon dioxide.
  • cardholder — A cardholder is someone who has a bank card or credit card.
  • carmichael — Hoaglund Howard (ˈhəʊɡlənd), known as Hoagy. 1899–1981, US pianist, singer, and composer of such standards as "Star Dust" (1929)
  • carphology — the action of grasping at imaginary objects or plucking at one's bed linen, a characteristic of people affected by delirium
  • cartophile — a cartophilist
  • cartophily — the hobby of collecting cigarette cards
  • cartwheels — Plural form of cartwheel.
  • cased hole — A cased hole is the part of the wellbore with metal casing and cementing.
  • cash limit — a limit imposed as a method of curtailing overall expenditure without specifying the precise means of budgetary control
  • cash value — the nonforfeiture value of a life-insurance policy payable to the insured in cash upon its surrender.
  • catch cold — to become ill with a cold
  • catch hell — to receive a severe scolding, punishment, etc.
  • catch-colt — the offspring of a mare bred accidentally.
  • catchflies — Plural form of catchfly.
  • cathedrals — Plural form of cathedral.
  • cathemeral — Relating to organisms that have sporadic and random intervals during the day or night in which food is acquired.
  • catholicon — a remedy for all ills; panacea
  • catholicos — the patriarch of the Armenian Church
  • catholicus — catholicos.
  • cattleship — a large vessel for the transportation of livestock.
  • cellophane — Cellophane is a thin, transparent material that is used to wrap things.
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