10-letter words containing e, c, t, o, h
- chatterton — Thomas. 1752–70, British poet; author of spurious medieval verse and prose: he committed suicide at the age of 17
- cheap shot — A cheap shot is a comment someone makes which you think is unfair or unkind.
- check into — to stop or arrest the motion of suddenly or forcibly: He checked the horse at the edge of the cliff.
- checkpoint — A checkpoint is a place where traffic is stopped so that it can be checked.
- cheektooth — any molar or premolar tooth
- chemonasty — the nastic movement of a plant in response to a chemical stimulus
- chemostats — Plural form of chemostat.
- chemotaxis — the movement of a microorganism or cell in response to a chemical stimulus
- chemotroph — any organism that oxidizes inorganic or organic compounds as its principal energy source.
- chernovtsy — a city in Ukraine on the Prut River: formerly under Polish, Austro-Hungarian, and Romanian rule; part of the Soviet Union (1947–91). Pop: 237 000 (2005 est)
- chervonets — (formerly) a Soviet monetary unit and gold coin worth ten roubles
- chest cold — a cold mainly affecting the chest
- chesterton — G(ilbert) K(eith). 1874–1936, English essayist, novelist, poet, and critic
- chevrotain — any small timid ruminant artiodactyl mammal of the genera Tragulus and Hyemoschus, of S and SE Asia: family Tragulidae. They resemble rodents, and the males have long tusklike upper canines
- chief town — a town or city that is the administrative centre of a region
- chimneypot — a short pipe on the top of a chimney, which increases the draught and directs the smoke upwards
- chitarrone — a large lute with a double neck in common use during the baroque period, esp in Italy
- chloridate — to expose to or prepare with a chloride
- chlorinate — to combine or treat (a substance) with chlorine
- choanocyte — any of the flagellated cells in sponges that maintain a flow of water through the body. A collar of protoplasm surrounds the base of the flagellum
- chockstone — a stone securely jammed in a crack. It may vary in size from a pebble to a large boulder
- chocolates — Plural form of chocolate.
- chocolatey — a preparation of the seeds of cacao, roasted, husked, and ground, often sweetened and flavored, as with vanilla.
- chokepoint — a place of greatest congestion and often hazard; bottleneck.
- cholecysts — Plural form of cholecyst.
- chomophyte — any plant that grows on rocky ledges or in fissures and crevices
- chondrites — Plural form of chondrite.
- choreutics — a system that analyzes form in movement, developed by Rudolf von Laban (1879–1958), Hungarian choreographer and dance theorist.
- choristers — Plural form of chorister.
- choropleth — a symbol or marked and bounded area on a map denoting the distribution of some property
- choucroute — a dish, resembling sauerkraut, that consists of cabbage that has been preserved by soaking in pickle
- christophe — Henri (ɑ̃ri). 1767–1820, Haitian revolutionary leader; king of Haiti (1811–20)
- chromatype — a procedure in photography that uses photographic paper that is made reactive to light by the use of a salt of chromium
- chrysolite — a yellowish-green gem derived chiefly from varieties of olivine
- chrysotile — a green, grey, or white fibrous mineral, a variety of serpentine, that is an important source of commercial asbestos. Formula: Mg3Si2O5(OH)4
- 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.
- coal chute — an inclined channel or vertical passage down which coal may be dropped
- 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.
- cocked hat — A cocked hat is a hat with three corners that used to be worn with some uniforms.
- 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
- cohabitate — cohabit.
- coherently — logically connected; consistent: a coherent argument.