10-letter words containing c, h, r, o, t
- screenshot — Also called screen capture. a copy or image of what is seen on a computer screen at a given time: Save the screenshot as a graphics file.
- scunthorpe — a town in E England, in North Lincolnshire unitary authority, Lincolnshire: developed rapidly after the discovery of local iron ore in the late 19th century; iron and steel industries have declined. Pop: 72 660 (2001)
- search out — hunt for, seek
- short code — (language) (SHORTCODE) A pseudocode interpreter for mathematics problems, designed by John Mauchly in 1949 to execute on Eckert and Mauchly's BINAC and later on UNIVAC I and II. Short Code was possibly the first attempt at a high level language.
- shortcrust — light crumbly pastry
- spherocyte — an abnormal blood cell
- spirochete — any of various spiral-shaped motile bacteria of the family Spirochaetaceae, certain species, as Treponema, Leptospira, and Borrelia, being pathogenic to humans and other animals, and other species being free-living, saprophytic, or parasitic.
- sticharion — a white tunic of silk or linen, corresponding to the alb, worn by deacons, priests, and bishops.
- stitchwork — embroidery or needlework.
- stitchwort — any of several plants belonging to the genus Stellaria, of the pink family, having white flowers.
- stockhorse — a horse or pony used in herding cattle.
- stracchino — a soft cheese from North Italy
- stretchout — a deliberate extension of time for meeting a production quota.
- switcheroo — an unexpected or sudden change or reversal in attitude, character, position, action, etc.
- switchover — the act or process of changing from one power source, system, etc., to another.
- tachograph — a recording tachometer.
- 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.
- tauromachy — the art or technique of bullfighting.
- tchernosem — chernozem.
- 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.
- the chores — housework
- the corner — an area in central Australia, at the junction of the borders of Queensland and South Australia
- the forces — the armed services of a nation
- 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.
- theocritus — flourished c270 b.c, Greek poet.
- theophoric — having the name of a god embedded in something, such as a name
- theoretics — the theoretical or speculative part of a science or subject.
- thermionic — an ion emitted by incandescent material.
- thermotics — the scientific study of heat
- thiouracil — a white, slightly water-soluble, bitter, crystalline powder C 4 H 4 N 2 OS, used chiefly in treating hyperthyroidism by reducing the activity of the thyroid gland.
- threescore — being or containing three times twenty; sixty.
- thrombotic — intravascular coagulation of the blood in any part of the circulatory system, as in the heart, arteries, veins, or capillaries.
- throw back — to propel or cast in any way, especially to project or propel from the hand by a sudden forward motion or straightening of the arm and wrist: to throw a ball.
- thyrotoxic — of or relating to a condition caused by excessive thyroid hormone in the system, usually resulting from overactivity of the thyroid gland.
- timocharis — a crater in the second quadrant of the face of the moon: about 25 miles (40 km) in diameter.
- tocherless — without dowry or tocher
- tocopherol — one of several alcohols that constitute the dietary factor known as vitamin E, occurring in wheat-germ oil, lettuce or spinach leaves, egg yolk, etc.
- torch lily — tritoma.
- torch song — a popular song concerned with unhappiness or failure in love.
- torchlight — the light of a torch or torches.
- touchpaper — paper saturated with potassium nitrate to make it burn slowly, used for igniting explosives and fireworks.
- tovarishch — comrade (used as a term of address in the Soviet Union).
- 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.
- track shot — a camera shot in which the cameraman follows a specific person or event in the action
- trichinose — to infest with parasitic worms (trichinae)