10-letter words containing c, l, o, h
- close shot — closeup (def 2).
- close with — to engage in battle with an enemy
- cloth beam — a roller, located at the front of a loom, on which woven material is wound after it leaves the breast beam.
- cloth ears — a deaf person
- cloth yard — a medieval unit of measure for cloth, fixed at 37 inches by Edward VI of England: also used as a length for longbow arrows
- cloth-like — resembling cloth
- clothbound — (of a book) bound in stiff boards covered in cloth
- clothespin — A clothespin is the same as a clothes peg.
- clownishly — In a clownish, undignified, or foolish manner; absurdly, ridiculously.
- club-house — a building or room occupied by a club.
- clubhouses — Plural form of clubhouse.
- co-channel — denoting or relating to a radio transmission that is on the same frequency channel as another
- co-publish — to publish (something) with another person or company
- coach bolt — a large round-headed bolt used esp to secure wood to masonry
- coachloads — Plural form of coachload.
- coal chute — an inclined channel or vertical passage down which coal may be dropped
- coalheaver — One who feeds coal into a furnace.
- coccoliths — Plural form of coccolith.
- cochlearia — Plural form of cochlearium.
- coelacanth — a primitive marine bony fish of the genus Latimeria (subclass Crossopterygii), having fleshy limblike pectoral fins and occurring off the coast of E Africa: thought to be extinct until a living specimen was discovered in 1938
- coherently — logically connected; consistent: a coherent argument.
- cohesively — characterized by or causing cohesion: a cohesive agent.
- cohomology — the abstract study of algebraic topology
- colchester — a town in E England, in NE Essex; university (1964). Pop: 104 390 (2001)
- colchicine — a pale-yellow crystalline alkaloid extracted from seeds or corms of the autumn crocus. It is used in the treatment of gout and to create polyploid plants by inhibiting chromosome separation during meiosis. Formula: C22H25NO6
- colchicums — Plural form of colchicum.
- cold light — light emitted at low temperatures from a source that is not incandescent, such as fluorescence, phosphorescence, bioluminescence, or triboluminescence
- cold-patch — to apply a cold patch to.
- coleorhiza — a protective sheath around the radicle in grasses
- collagraph — An artistic print made through the printmaking process of collagraphy.
- collophane — a massive, cryptocrystalline variety of apatite that is the principal component of phosphate rock and fossil bone.
- collophore — a ventral tubelike structure on the abdomen of a springtail.
- colocynths — Plural form of colocynth.
- colourwash — a coloured distemper
- commonhold — a form of property tenure in which each flat in a multi-occupancy building is individually wholly owned and common areas are jointly owned
- compelleth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of compel.
- conchiglie — pasta in the form of shells
- conchiolin — a fibrous insoluble protein that forms the basic structure of the shells of molluscs. Formula: C30H48O11N9
- conchoidal — (of the fracture of minerals and rocks) having smooth shell-shaped convex and concave surfaces
- conchology — the study and collection of mollusc shells
- condylarth — any of the primitive ungulate mammals of the extinct order Condylarthra, from the Paleocene and Eocene epochs, having a slender body, low-crowned teeth, and five-toed feet, each toe ending in a small hoof.
- cone shell — any of various tropical marine gastropod molluscs of the genus Conus and related genera, having a smooth conical shell
- consulship — an official appointed by the government of one country to look after its commercial interests and the welfare of its citizens in another country.
- cook-chill — a method of food preparation used by caterers, in which cooked dishes are chilled rapidly and reheated as required
- coolheaded — not easily flustered; calm
- coolie hat — a wide, conical straw hat worn especially as a shield against the sun.
- copyholder — one who reads aloud from the copy as the proof corrector follows the reading in the proof
- cornholing — to have anal intercourse with.
- couch roll — the roll on which a wet web is transferred from the paper machine to the couch.
- crosslight — a light source which illuminates a subject from a perpendicular angle to another light