10-letter words containing c, h, o, r, g
- geographic — of or relating to geography.
- geomorphic — of or relating to the form of the earth or the forms of its surface.
- geothermic — of or relating to the internal heat of the earth.
- ghost crab — a whitish crab, Ocypode albicans, of sandy beaches from the eastern coast of the U.S. to Brazil.
- glucophore — a chemical group responsible for sweetness of taste
- good cheer — cheerful spirits; courage: to be of good cheer.
- gran chaco — an extensive subtropical region in central South America, in Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay. 300,000 sq. mi. (777,000 sq. km).
- grand chop — (in China and India trade) a customs clearance.
- grapholect — an established and standardized written language
- greencloth — the green covering of a billiard or gaming table
- grouchiest — Superlative form of grouchy.
- hagiocracy — government by a body of persons esteemed as holy.
- hectograms — Plural form of hectogram.
- hectograph — a process for making copies of a letter, memorandum, etc., from a prepared gelatin surface to which the original writing has been transferred.
- heroic age — one of the five periods in human history, when, according to Hesiod, gods and demigods performed heroic and glorious deeds.
- high court — Supreme Court.
- hog sucker — any of several suckers of the genus Hypentelium, inhabiting cool streams of eastern North America and characterized by a broad head that is concave above.
- homorganic — (of two or more speech sounds) having the same place of articulation, as p, b, and m, which are all bilabial.
- hydrogenic — (chemistry) hydrogen-like.
- hydrologic — the science dealing with the occurrence, circulation, distribution, and properties of the waters of the earth and its atmosphere.
- hygrochasy — the opening of a fruit or flower caused by water or moisture
- hygroscope — an instrument that indicates the approximate humidity of the air.
- hygroscopy — The ability of a substance to attract and hold water molecules from the surrounding environment.
- hypergolic — (especially of rocket-fuel propellant constituents) igniting spontaneously upon contact with a complementary substance.
- iconograph — symbolic representation, especially the conventional meanings attached to an image or images.
- isographic — (in the study of the geographical distribution of a dialect) a line drawn on a map to indicate areas having common linguistic characteristics.
- 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.
- macrograph — a representation of an object that is of the same size as or larger than the object.
- macrophage — a large white blood cell, occurring principally in connective tissue and in the bloodstream, that ingests foreign particles and infectious microorganisms by phagocytosis.
- micrograph — an instrument for executing extremely minute writing or engraving.
- microlight — An ultralight aircraft.
- microphage — a small phagocytic cell in blood or lymph, especially a polymorphonuclear leukocyte.
- necrophage — An organism that eats dead or decaying flesh.
- necrophagy — The eating of dead or decaying animal flesh.
- noctograph — a frame used to aid the blind in writing.
- oligarchic — of, relating to, or having the form of an oligarchy.
- orcharding — the cultivation of orchards
- orographic — Of or relating to mountains, especially with regard to their position and form.
- orthogenic — Psychology. of, concerned with, or providing corrective treatment for mentally retarded or seriously disturbed children: orthogenic class.
- overcharge — to charge (a purchaser) too high a price: When the manager realized we'd been overcharged, she gave us a credit for the difference.
- pictograph — pictogram
- prognathic — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- psychogram — a message believed to be written by a spirit or authored by psychical means
- rhizogenic — producing roots, as certain cells.
- rockingham — Second Marquis of, Charles Watson-Wentworth.
- rough copy — writing: early draft
- sarcophagi — a stone coffin, especially one bearing sculpture, inscriptions, etc., often displayed as a monument.
- schoenberg — Arnold (ˈarnɔlt). 1874–1951, Austrian composer and musical theorist, in the US after 1933. The harmonic idiom of such early works as the string sextet Verklärte Nacht (1899) gave way to his development of atonality, as in the song cycle Pierrot Lunaire (1912), and later of the twelve-tone technique. He wrote many choral, orchestral, and chamber works and the unfinished opera Moses and Aaron
- schongauer — Martin [mahr-tn;; German mahr-teen] /ˈmɑr tn;; German ˈmɑr tin/ (Show IPA), c1430–91, German engraver and painter.