10-letter words containing c, h, l, o, r
- lipochrome — any of the naturally occurring pigments that contain a lipid, as carotene.
- loch morar — a lake in W Scotland, in the SW Highlands: the deepest in Scotland. Length: 18 km (11 miles). Depth: 296 m (987 ft)
- loch raven — a town in central Maryland, near Baltimore.
- lock horns — a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
- logorrheic — pathologically incoherent, repetitious speech.
- long march — the 6000-mile (9654-km) retreat of the Chinese Communist Party and Red Army from southeastern China (Jiangxi province) to the northwest (Yanan in Shaanxi province) in 1934–35, during which Mao Zedong became leader of the Communist party.
- low church — pertaining to the view or practice in the Anglican Church that emphasizes evangelicalism and lays little stress on the sacraments, church rituals, and church authority.
- lunch hour — pause from work to eat midday meal
- lunchrooms — Plural form of lunchroom.
- microlight — An ultralight aircraft.
- microliths — Plural form of microlith.
- microphyll — (botany) A leaf having a single unbranched vein, or a structure that is derived from such a leaf.
- monarchial — pertaining to, characteristic of, or befitting a monarch: monarchal pomp.
- necrophile — (sexuality) One who is subject to necrophilia.
- necrophily — Necrophilia.
- ochlocracy — government by the mob; mob rule; mobocracy.
- octahedral — having the form of an octahedron.
- old french — the French language of the 9th through the 13th centuries. Abbreviation: OF.
- oligarchic — of, relating to, or having the form of an oligarchy.
- orchestral — of, relating to, or resembling an orchestra.
- orchidlike — Resembling an orchid or some aspect of one.
- orichalcum — a brass rich in zinc, prepared by the ancients.
- orthoclase — a common white or pink mineral of the feldspar group, KAlSi 3 O 8 , having two good cleavages at right angles, and found in silica-rich igneous rocks: used in the manufacture of porcelain.
- overbleach — (transitive) To bleach too much.
- overlaunch — (in shipbuilding) to overlap planks
- perchloric — of or derived from perchloric acid.
- phallocrat — a male who assumes authority over females due to his maleness
- pharmacol. — pharmacology
- pleochroic — (of a biaxial crystal) characterized by pleochroism.
- polyarchic — a form of government in which power is vested in three or more persons.
- polychrest — a thing which has adapted to multiple uses
- polychroic — having many colours
- polychrome — being of many or various colors.
- polychromy — the art of employing many colors in decoration, as in painting or architecture.
- polyhedric — resembling a polyhedron
- polyhydric — (especially of alcohols and phenols) polyhydroxy.
- pre-school — Pre-school is used to describe things relating to the care and education of children before they reach the age when they have to go to school.
- prochloron — any spherical, photosynthetic, prokaryotic microorganism of the genus Prochloron, occurring in subtropical and tropical habitats in symbiosis with various invertebrates, especially marine chordates, proposed as ancestral to the chloroplast of green algae and plants.
- pyrochlore — a mineral, chiefly composed of niobates of the cerium metals, occurring in syenites in the form of brown crystals.
- rhetorical — used for, belonging to, or concerned with mere style or effect.
- roach clip — a small tweezerlike clip for holding the butt of a marijuana cigarette.
- roche alum — an alumlike substance derived from alunite.
- rocky hill — a town in central Connecticut.
- rothschild — Lionel Nathan, Baron de ("Lord Natty") 1809–79, English banker: first Jewish member of Parliament (son of Nathan Meyer Rothschild).
- sarcophile — a flesh-eating animal, especially the Tasmanian devil.
- school run — The school run is the journey that parents make each day when they take their children to school and bring them home from school.
- schoolgirl — a girl attending school.
- schoolmarm — a female schoolteacher, especially of the old-time country school type, popularly held to be strict and priggish.
- schoolroom — a room in which a class is conducted or pupils are taught.
- schoolward — towards or in the direction of school