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10-letter words containing c, o, h, s

  • chronemics — The study of the communicative function of time.
  • chronicles — either of two historical books (I and II Chronicles) of the Old Testament
  • chrysocale — a copper alloy containing zinc and lead.
  • chrysolite — a yellowish-green gem derived chiefly from varieties of olivine
  • chrysophan — a glucoside that is bitter to the taste and yellow in colour
  • chrysostom — Saint John. ?345–407 ad, Greek patriarch; archbishop of Constantinople (398–404). Feast day: Sept 13 or Nov 13
  • chrysotile — a green, grey, or white fibrous mineral, a variety of serpentine, that is an important source of commercial asbestos. Formula: Mg3Si2O5(OH)4
  • chuckholes — Plural form of chuckhole.
  • chunderous — nauseating
  • chylaceous — of or resembling chyle.
  • cinchonism — a condition resulting from an excessive dose of cinchona bark or its alkaloids, characterized chiefly by headache, ringing in the ears, and vomiting
  • close shot — closeup (def 2).
  • close with — to engage in battle with an enemy
  • cloth ears — a deaf person
  • 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-publish — to publish (something) with another person or company
  • coachloads — Plural form of coachload.
  • coatsworthElizabeth, 1893–1986, U.S. writer, especially of children's books.
  • coccoliths — Plural form of coccolith.
  • cockfights — Plural form of cockfight.
  • cockhorses — Plural form of cockhorse.
  • codeswitch — Alternative form of code-switch.
  • coffeeshop — Alternative form of coffee shop.
  • coheirship — The state of being a coheir.
  • coherences — Plural form of coherence.
  • cohesively — characterized by or causing cohesion: a cohesive agent.
  • colchester — a town in E England, in NE Essex; university (1964). Pop: 104 390 (2001)
  • colchicums — Plural form of colchicum.
  • colocynths — Plural form of colocynth.
  • colourwash — a coloured distemper
  • cone shell — any of various tropical marine gastropod molluscs of the genus Conus and related genera, having a smooth conical shell
  • consisteth — Archaic third-person singular form of consist.
  • 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.
  • coonhounds — Plural form of coonhound.
  • copyrights — Plural form of copyright.
  • coquettish — If you describe a woman as coquettish, you mean she acts in a playful way that is intended to make men find her attractive.
  • corn shock — a stack or bundle of bound or unbound corn piled upright for curing or drying
  • corn shuck — the husk of an ear of maize
  • cornetfish — any of several slender fishes of the family Fistulariidae, of tropical seas, having an elongated snout and bony plates instead of scales.
  • cornhusker — a person or machine that strips cornhusks from ears of maize
  • cornishman — a man who is a native or inhabitant of Cornwall
  • cornstarch — Cornstarch is the same as cornflour.
  • coryphaeus — (in ancient Greek drama) the leader of the chorus
  • cosherings — (in Ireland) visits to tenants' houses by a chief and his followers, where they would expect to be fed and accommodated
  • cost-share — to share the cost of: to cost-share a joint venture.
  • couch-surf — to stay overnight in someone’s else’s home while traveling: He couch-surfed at the houses of strangers and friends.
  • couchettes — Plural form of couchette.
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