10-letter words containing e, c, h, o
- cinchonize — to treat (a patient) with cinchona or one of its alkaloids, esp quinine
- clodhopper — a clumsy person; lout
- clomiphene — a drug that stimulates the production of egg cells in the ovary: used to treat infertility in women
- 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-like — resembling cloth
- clothespin — A clothespin is the same as a clothes peg.
- club-house — a building or room occupied by a club.
- clubhouses — Plural form of clubhouse.
- cnidophore — a part or organ bearing cnidoblasts.
- co-channel — denoting or relating to a radio transmission that is on the same frequency channel as another
- coachmaker — A coachbuilder.
- coal chute — an inclined channel or vertical passage down which coal may be dropped
- coalheaver — One who feeds coal into a furnace.
- coat check — The coat check at a public building such as a theater or club is the place where customers can leave their coats, usually for a small fee.
- coathanger — Alternative spelling of coat hanger.
- coauthored — one of two or more joint authors.
- cochlearia — Plural form of cochlearium.
- cockchafer — any of various Old World scarabaeid beetles, esp Melolontha melolontha of Europe, whose larvae feed on crops and grasses
- cocked hat — A cocked hat is a hat with three corners that used to be worn with some uniforms.
- cockhorses — Plural form of cockhorse.
- codeswitch — Alternative form of code-switch.
- 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
- coffeeshop — Alternative form of coffee shop.
- cohabitate — cohabit.
- coheirship — The state of being a coheir.
- coherences — Plural form of coherence.
- coherently — logically connected; consistent: a coherent argument.
- cohesively — characterized by or causing cohesion: a cohesive agent.
- cohibitive — restrictive
- 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
- coleorhiza — a protective sheath around the radicle in grasses
- 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.
- comanchean — of or relating to the early part of the Cretaceous system and period
- comanchero — (in 19th-century New Mexico) a trader who traded with the Native American nomadic tribes such as the Comanche, Navajo, and Apache
- commandeth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of command.
- commendeth — Archaic third-person singular form of commend.
- committeth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of commit.
- compelleth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of compel.
- comprehend — If you cannot comprehend something, you cannot understand it.
- conchiglie — pasta in the form of shells
- 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.
- containeth — Archaic third-person singular form of contain.
- continueth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of continue.
- contrahent — entering into an agreement or contract