10-letter words containing c, h, o, l, e, r
- headcollar — A bitless headpiece for leading or tying up a horse.
- hectoliter — a unit of capacity equal to 100 liters, equivalent to 2.8378 U.S. bushels, or 26.418 U.S. gallons. Abbreviation: hl.
- hectolitre — a unit of capacity equal to 100 liters, equivalent to 2.8378 U.S. bushels, or 26.418 U.S. gallons. Abbreviation: hl.
- helicopter — any of a class of heavier-than-air craft that are lifted and sustained in the air horizontally by rotating wings or blades turning on vertical axes through power supplied by an engine.
- heptachlor — a highly toxic, light-tan, waxy solid, C 10 H 5 Cl 7 , used as an insecticide: its manufacture and use are restricted in the U.S.
- heroically — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
- holosteric — (of an instrument or device) wholly constructed of solids, without any liquids
- homocercal — having an equally divided tail, characteristic of adult modern bony fishes.
- hop clover — a trefoil, Trifolium campestre, having withered, yellow flowers that resemble the strobiles of a hop.
- horse clam — gaper.
- horsecloth — a cloth used to cover a horse, or as part of its trappings.
- horseleech — a large leech, as Haemopis marmoratis, that infests the mouth and nasal passages of horses.
- hotel rack — rack6 (def 2).
- housecarls — Plural form of housecarl.
- hydroceles — Plural form of hydrocele.
- hyperbolic — having the nature of hyperbole; exaggerated.
- hyperfocal — relating to the distance beyond which a lens can be focused to produce satisfactory image quality
- hypergolic — (especially of rocket-fuel propellant constituents) igniting spontaneously upon contact with a complementary substance.
- hyperlocal — relating to or focused on a very small geographical community, as a neighborhood: hyperlocal news websites; hyperlocal advertising.
- lachrymose — suggestive of or tending to cause tears; mournful.
- lectorship — a lecturer in a college or university.
- leech rope — a boltrope along a leech.
- leiotrichy — the condition of having straight hair
- letchworth — a town in SE England, in N Hertfordshire: the first garden city in Great Britain (founded in 1903). Pop: 32 932 (2001)
- leucorrhea — Alternative form of leukorrhea.
- lipochrome — any of the naturally occurring pigments that contain a lipid, as carotene.
- loch raven — a town in central Maryland, near Baltimore.
- logorrheic — pathologically incoherent, repetitious speech.
- necrophile — (sexuality) One who is subject to necrophilia.
- necrophily — Necrophilia.
- octahedral — having the form of an octahedron.
- old french — the French language of the 9th through the 13th centuries. Abbreviation: OF.
- orchestral — of, relating to, or resembling an orchestra.
- orchidlike — Resembling an orchid or some aspect of one.
- 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.
- pleochroic — (of a biaxial crystal) characterized by pleochroism.
- polychrest — a thing which has adapted to multiple uses
- polychrome — being of many or various colors.
- polyhedric — resembling a polyhedron
- 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.
- 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.
- roche alum — an alumlike substance derived from alunite.
- sarcophile — a flesh-eating animal, especially the Tasmanian devil.
- scrollhead — billethead.
- terrachlor — pentachloronitrobenzene.
- tocherless — without dowry or tocher