10-letter words containing e, c, h, i
- chunkiness — The state of being chunky.
- chuntering — to grumble or grouse mildly or tediously.
- churchlike — resembling or appropriate to a church: churchlike silence.
- chuttering — Present participle of chutter.
- cibachrome — the old name for the Ilfochrome photographic printing process
- cimeliarch — a room for keeping the valuables of a church.
- cinch belt — a wide belt of elastic, leather, or fabric with a clasp or lacing in front, worn tightly to make the waist look smaller.
- cinchonine — an insoluble crystalline alkaloid isolated from cinchona bark, used to treat malaria. Formula: C19H22N2O
- cinchonize — to treat (a patient) with cinchona or one of its alkaloids, esp quinine
- cinephiles — Plural form of cinephile.
- ciphertext — encrypted text
- citizenish — Of the nature of citizens.
- clairseach — an ancient Irish and Scottish harp.
- clientship — the state of being a client
- clisthenes — Cleisthenes
- clomiphene — a drug that stimulates the production of egg cells in the ovary: used to treat infertility in women
- close with — to engage in battle with an enemy
- cloth-like — resembling cloth
- clothespin — A clothespin is the same as a clothes peg.
- cnidophore — a part or organ bearing cnidoblasts.
- cochlearia — Plural form of cochlearium.
- codeswitch — Alternative form of code-switch.
- cohabitate — cohabit.
- coheirship — The state of being a coheir.
- cohesively — characterized by or causing cohesion: a cohesive agent.
- cohibitive — restrictive
- 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
- coleorhiza — a protective sheath around the radicle in grasses
- committeth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of commit.
- conchiglie — pasta in the form of shells
- consisteth — Archaic third-person singular form of consist.
- containeth — Archaic third-person singular form of contain.
- continueth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of continue.
- coolie hat — a wide, conical straw hat worn especially as a shield against the sun.
- 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.
- cornetfish — any of several slender fishes of the family Fistulariidae, of tropical seas, having an elongated snout and bony plates instead of scales.
- cosherings — (in Ireland) visits to tenants' houses by a chief and his followers, where they would expect to be fed and accommodated
- cotehardie — (in the Middle Ages) a close-fitting outer garment with long sleeves, hip-length for men and full-length for women, often laced or buttoned down the front or back.
- coyishness — the quality of being coyish
- crash diet — a strict diet which is intended to produce drastic results in a relatively short period
- crash dive — a sudden steep dive from the surface by a submarine
- crash site — the place where a crash occurred
- crash-dive — a rapid dive by a submarine made at a steep angle, especially to avoid attack from a surface vessel or airplane.
- crawfished — Simple past tense and past participle of crawfish.
- crepe hair — artificial hair, usually plaited and made of wool or vegetable fibre, used in theatrical make-up
- crew chief — the head of a crew, especially for maintenance of aircraft or racing cars.
- crib death — Crib death is the sudden death of a baby while it is asleep, although the baby had not previously been ill.
- crib sheet — a sheet containing notes, etc, on a particular subject, used as a study aid
- crocheting — Present participle of crochet.
- crunchtime — the tense, critical phase of an activity