10-letter words containing c, h, o, r, e, a
- pack-horse — a horse used for carrying goods, freight, supplies, etc.
- peacherino — peach1 (def 4).
- pentachord — a series of five consecutive notes of a scale
- phone card — calling card (def 3).
- quebrachos — Plural form of quebracho.
- race-horse — a horse bred or kept for racing, especially in flat races or steeplechases.
- racehorses — Plural form of racehorse.
- reapproach — to come near or nearer to: The cars slowed down as they approached the intersection.
- reproached — to find fault with (a person, group, etc.); blame; censure.
- rheostatic — an adjustable resistor so constructed that its resistance may be changed without opening the circuit in which it is connected, thereby controlling the current in the circuit.
- rhetorical — used for, belonging to, or concerned with mere style or effect.
- rhinotheca — the covering of the upper part of the beak in birds
- rhotacized — to change (a sound) to an (r); subject to rhotacism.
- rochambeau — Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur [zhahn ba-teest daw-na-syan duh vee-mœr] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist dɔ naˈsyɛ̃ də viˈmœr/ (Show IPA), Count de, 1725–1807, French general: marshal of France 1791–1807; commander of the French army in the American Revolution.
- roche alum — an alumlike substance derived from alunite.
- routemarch — march in which a unit retains its column formation but individuals are allowed to break step.
- saccharose — sucrose.
- samothrace — a Greek island in the NE Aegean.
- sarcophile — a flesh-eating animal, especially the Tasmanian devil.
- scherzando — (a musical direction) playful; sportive.
- schongauer — Martin [mahr-tn;; German mahr-teen] /ˈmɑr tn;; German ˈmɑr tin/ (Show IPA), c1430–91, German engraver and painter.
- scrollhead — billethead.
- sea anchor — any of various devices, as a drogue, that have great resistance to being pulled through the water and are dropped forward of a vessel at the end of a cable to hold the bow into the wind or sea during a storm.
- search dog — a dog trained to assist rescue workers in finding people buried under rubble by detection by smell
- search out — hunt for, seek
- semaphoric — an apparatus for conveying information by means of visual signals, as a light whose position may be changed.
- shoe cream — cream for polishing shoes
- shore crab — any of numerous crabs that live along the shoreline between the tidemarks, as Hemigrapsus nudus (purple shore crab) of the Pacific coast of North America.
- shower cap — a plastic cap worn in the shower to keep the hair dry
- supermacho — extremely macho
- tachometer — any of various instruments for measuring or indicating velocity or speed, as of a machine, a river, or the blood.
- tachometry — any of various instruments for measuring or indicating velocity or speed, as of a machine, a river, or the blood.
- technocrat — a proponent, adherent, or supporter of technocracy.
- technofear — fear of using technological devices, such as computers; technophobia
- terrachlor — pentachloronitrobenzene.
- tetrachord — a diatonic series of four tones, the first and last separated by a perfect fourth.
- theocratic — a form of government in which God or a deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler, the God's or deity's laws being interpreted by the ecclesiastical authorities.
- touchpaper — paper saturated with potassium nitrate to make it burn slowly, used for igniting explosives and fireworks.
- tracheolar — of or relating to the tracheole
- track shoe — a light, heelless, usually leather shoe having either steel spikes for use outdoors on a cinder or dirt track, or a rubber sole for use indoors on a board floor.
- trochanter — Anatomy. either of two knobs at the top of the femur, the greater on the outside and the lesser on the inside, serving for the attachment of muscles between the thigh and pelvis.
- unanchored — any of various devices dropped by a chain, cable, or rope to the bottom of a body of water for preventing or restricting the motion of a vessel or other floating object, typically having broad, hooklike arms that bury themselves in the bottom to provide a firm hold.
- unbroached — Machinery. an elongated, tapered, serrated cutting tool for shaping and enlarging holes.
- vectograph — a technology that uses special glasses to see a photographic image between two plastic sheets as three dimensional
- vero beach — a town in central Florida.
- watch over — to be alertly on the lookout, look attentively, or observe, as to see what comes, is done, or happens: to watch while an experiment is performed.
- watchtower — a tower on which a sentinel keeps watch.
- wordsearch — a puzzle made up of letters arranged in a grid which contains a number of hidden words running in various directions