10-letter words containing c, h, r
- canephoros — in ancient Greece, any of the maidens who carried on her head a basket holding the sacred things used at feasts
- cape wrath — a promontory at the NW extremity of the Scottish mainland
- cape-wrath — Cape, a high promontory in NW Scotland: most NW point on mainland.
- carchemish — an ancient city in Syria on the Euphrates, lying on major trade routes; site of a victory of the Babylonians over the Egyptians (605 bc)
- card punch — keypunch (def 1).
- card shark — an expert card player
- card-punch — Also, key punch. Also called card punch. a machine, operated by a keyboard, for coding information by punching holes in cards or paper tape in specified patterns.
- cardholder — A cardholder is someone who has a bank card or credit card.
- cardphones — Plural form of cardphone.
- cardsharps — Plural form of cardsharp.
- careership — An approach to career-related decision-making, combining rationality, interactions with others, and responses to sometimes unpredictable events.
- cargo ship — a ship carrying cargo
- carhopping — the practice of serving customers at a drive-in restaurant
- carmarthen — a market town in S Wales, the administrative centre of Carmarthenshire: Norman castle. Pop: 14 648 (2001)
- carmichael — Hoaglund Howard (ˈhəʊɡlənd), known as Hoagy. 1899–1981, US pianist, singer, and composer of such standards as "Star Dust" (1929)
- carphology — the action of grasping at imaginary objects or plucking at one's bed linen, a characteristic of people affected by delirium
- carpophore — the central column surrounded by carpels in such flowers as the geranium
- carragheen — Irish moss.
- cart horse — A cart horse is a large, powerful horse that is used to pull carts or farm machinery.
- carthamine — a yellow or red dye obtained from safflower
- carthorses — Plural form of carthorse.
- carthusian — a member of an austere monastic order founded by Saint Bruno in 1084 near Grenoble, France
- cartograph — the production of maps, including construction of projections, design, compilation, drafting, and reproduction.
- cartoonish — like a cartoon, esp in being one-dimensional, brightly coloured, or exaggerated
- cartophile — a cartophilist
- cartophily — the hobby of collecting cigarette cards
- cartouches — Plural form of cartouche.
- cartwheels — Plural form of cartwheel.
- cartwright — a person who makes carts
- caseharden — to form a hard, thin surface on (an iron alloy)
- cash offer — a public equity issue sold to everyone who is interested in it
- cash price — discount
- cash prize — a prize in a competition that takes the form of money
- cash ratio — the ratio of cash on hand to total deposits that by law or custom commercial banks must maintain
- cash terms — the terms of a business transaction that is conducted in ready money
- cashdrawer — a drawer, as in a cash register, that has separate compartments for coins and bills of different denominations.
- cashiering — to dismiss (a military officer) from service, especially with disgrace.
- cat-harpin — any of a number of short ropes or rods for gathering in shrouds near their tops.
- cataphoric — the use of a word or phrase to refer to a following word or group of words, as the use of the phrase as follows.
- cataphract — a defensive armour, often made of link mail, used for the entire body
- catarrhine — (of apes and Old World monkeys) having the nostrils set close together and opening to the front of the face
- catch crop — a quick-growing crop planted between two regular crops grown in consecutive seasons, or between two rows of regular crops in the same season
- catch fire — to ignite
- catch-cord — a cord or wire located near a selvage, used to form a loop or deflect the filling yarn not intended to be woven permanently in with the regular selvage.
- catchwater — a drain or ditch which catches water
- catchwords — Plural form of catchword.
- catechizer — One who catechizes.
- cathartics — Plural form of cathartic.
- cathedrals — Plural form of cathedral.
- cathemeral — Relating to organisms that have sporadic and random intervals during the day or night in which food is acquired.