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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)
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