10-letter words containing c, h, o, y
- rosy finch — any of several finches of the genus Leucosticte, of Asia and western North America, having dark brown plumage with a pinkish wash on the wings and rump.
- rough copy — writing: early draft
- scatophagy — the act of eating dung or excrement
- schizogamy — reproduction characterized by division of the organism into sexual and asexual parts, as in certain polychaetes.
- schizogony — (in the asexual reproduction of certain sporozoans) the multiple fission of a trophozoite or schizont into merozoites.
- school day — any day on which school is conducted.
- schooldays — school-age period
- schoolyard — a playground or sports field near a school.
- scyphiform — shaped like a cup or goblet.
- scyphozoan — any coelenterate of the class Scyphozoa, comprising the true marine jellyfishes.
- shellycoat — a mythical creature dressed in shells who haunts rivers and streams
- shockingly — causing intense surprise, disgust, horror, etc.
- shylockian — a relentless and revengeful moneylender in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.
- shylocking — a relentless and revengeful moneylender in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.
- sociopathy — a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.
- spherocyte — an abnormal blood cell
- stichology — metrical theory or the science of poetic metres
- sycophancy — self-seeking or servile flattery.
- synchronal — synchronous.
- synchronic — having reference to the facts of a linguistic system as it exists at one point in time without reference to its history: synchronic analysis; synchronic dialectology.
- synecdoche — a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in ten sail for ten ships or a Croesus for a rich man.
- tachometry — any of various instruments for measuring or indicating velocity or speed, as of a machine, a river, or the blood.
- tachypnoea — excessively rapid respiration.
- tauromachy — the art or technique of bullfighting.
- technology — the branch of knowledge that deals with the creation and use of technical means and their interrelation with life, society, and the environment, drawing upon such subjects as industrial arts, engineering, applied science, and pure science.
- theotechny — the introduction of a divine force or being into a piece of literature, often used to bring resolution to a situation
- thiocyanic — of, from, or relating to a sulphacid (or liquid acid HSCN) having a strong odour but no colour
- thymectomy — surgical removal of the thymus gland.
- thyrotoxic — of or relating to a condition caused by excessive thyroid hormone in the system, usually resulting from overactivity of the thyroid gland.
- torch lily — tritoma.
- touch-type — to type by means of the touch system.
- trichocyst — an organ of offense and defense embedded in the outer cytoplasm of certain protozoans, consisting of a small elongated sac containing a fine, hairlike filament capable of being ejected.
- trichogyne — a hairlike prolongation of a carpogonium, serving as a receptive organ for the spermatium.
- trichology — the science dealing with the study of the hair and its diseases.
- trichotomy — division into three parts, classes, categories, etc.
- typhaceous — belonging to the family of flowering plants Typhaceae
- typhogenic — producing typhus or typhoid fever.
- xerophytic — (botany) Of, pertaining to, or being a xerophyte.
- xylochrome — a colouring agent made from the chemical alteration of decomposed wood
- xylophonic — Of or pertaining to a xylophone.
- youth club — A youth club is a club where young people can go to meet each other and take part in various leisure activities. Youth clubs are often run by a church or local authority.
- yucca moth — any of several white moths of the genus Tegeticula that pollinate the yucca plant, the larvae of which develop in the ovary of the plant, consuming some of the seeds.
- zygobranch — a creature belonging to the Zygobranchia genus, which includes molluscs with paired gills