10-letter words containing c, h, o, a
- art school — tertiary level college for students of art
- artichokes — Plural form of artichoke.
- asynchrony — a lack of synchronism or coincidence in time.
- autochrome — a material once used for color photography, consisting of a photographic emulsion applied over a multicolored screen of minute starch grains dyed red, green, and blue-violet.
- autochthon — one of the earliest known inhabitants of any country; aboriginal
- autophobic — Of or pertaining to autophobia.
- auxochrome — a group of atoms that can be attached to a chromogen to convert it into a dye
- avouchable — able to be avouched
- avouchment — The act of avouching.
- baby coach — a baby carriage.
- bachelor's — a person who has been awarded a bachelor's degree.
- back tooth — a tooth in the back of your jaw
- back-cloth — backdrop (def 1).
- backcloths — Plural form of backcloth.
- baphometic — relating to the worship of the idol Baphomet, whom the Knights Templar were accused of worshipping during the Crusades
- bar kochba — Simeon. died 135 ad, Jewish leader who led an unsuccessful revolt against the Romans in Palestine
- bark cloth — a papery fabric made from the fibrous inner bark of various trees, esp of the moraceous genus Ficus and the leguminous genus Brachystegia
- barophilic — (of living organisms) growing best in conditions of high atmospheric pressure
- baroswitch — a switch actuated by barometric pressure.
- basophilic — having an affinity for basic stains.
- batch mode — computer processing in which commands are input from a batch file, not interactively
- beachfront — A beachfront house, café, shop, or hotel is situated on or by a beach.
- beachgoers — Plural form of beachgoer.
- bichromate — dichromate
- biographic — of or relating to a person's life: He's gathering biographical data for his book on Milton.
- black hole — Black holes are areas in space, where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape from them. Black holes are thought to be formed by collapsed stars.
- blackthorn — a thorny Eurasian rosaceous shrub, Prunus spinosa, with black twigs, white flowers, and small sour plumlike fruits
- boat patch — an oval patch for plywood, terminating in a point at each end.
- bon marche — a bargain.
- bone china — Bone china is a kind of thin china that contains powdered bone.
- book match — a match in or from a matchbook.
- brachiator — any primate which swings by its arms from one hold to the next
- brachiopod — any marine invertebrate animal of the phylum Brachiopoda, having a ciliated feeding organ (lophophore) and a shell consisting of dorsal and ventral valves
- brachydome — a dome whose face is parallel to the brachydiagonal axis in a crystal
- brachylogy — a concise style in speech or writing
- branch off — A road or path that branches off from another one starts from it and goes in a slightly different direction. If you branch off somewhere, you change the direction in which you are going.
- branch out — If a person or an organization branches out, they do something that is different from their normal activities or work.
- brno chair — an armchair designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1930, having a cantilevered frame of chromium-plated or stainless steel composed of two interlocking parts, one forming the legs and arms and the other the seat and back frame, with the back and seat lightly upholstered and usually covered with leather.
- broadcloth — fabric woven on a wide loom
- cabin hook — a hook and eye for fastening a cabinet door or the like.
- cablephoto — a photographic image transmitted via cable, especially for use by newspapers or in police work.
- cacography — bad handwriting
- cacophobia — The fear of ugliness.
- cacophonic — Discordant.
- cacotrophy — malnutrition
- caecotroph — (biology) In certain mammals, especially rabbits and some rodents, a cake or pellet of food which is produced by means of digestion and expulsion through the anus.
- calciphobe — calcifuge.
- 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.
- camphorate — to apply, treat with, or impregnate with camphor