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10-letter words containing e, h, r

  • cimeliarch — a room for keeping the valuables of a church.
  • ciphertext — encrypted text
  • clairseach — an ancient Irish and Scottish harp.
  • clathrates — Plural form of clathrate.
  • clawhammer — denoting a style of plucking the strings of a banjo in which the hand forms a clawlike shape
  • clodhopper — a clumsy person; lout
  • cloth ears — a deaf person
  • cnidophore — a part or organ bearing cnidoblasts.
  • coachmaker — A coachbuilder.
  • coalheaver — One who feeds coal into a furnace.
  • 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
  • cockhorses — Plural form of cockhorse.
  • coheirship — The state of being a coheir.
  • coherences — Plural form of coherence.
  • coherently — logically connected; consistent: a coherent argument.
  • colchester — a town in E England, in NE Essex; university (1964). Pop: 104 390 (2001)
  • coleorhiza — a protective sheath around the radicle in grasses
  • collophore — a ventral tubelike structure on the abdomen of a springtail.
  • comanchero — (in 19th-century New Mexico) a trader who traded with the Native American nomadic tribes such as the Comanche, Navajo, and Apache
  • comprehend — If you cannot comprehend something, you cannot understand it.
  • contrahent — entering into an agreement or contract
  • copperhead — a venomous reddish-brown snake, Agkistrodon contortrix, of the eastern US: family Crotalidae (pit vipers)
  • copyholder — one who reads aloud from the copy as the proof corrector follows the reading in the proof
  • cormophyte — any of the Cormophyta, a major division (now obsolete) of plants having a stem, root, and leaves: includes the mosses, ferns, and seed plants
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • court shoe — Court shoes are women's shoes that do not cover the top part of the foot and are usually made of plain leather with no design.
  • courthouse — A courthouse is a building in which a court of law meets.
  • cowcatcher — a metal frame on the front of a locomotive to clear the track of animals or other obstructions
  • cowpuncher — cowboy
  • crackheads — Plural form of crackhead.
  • crackhouse — a place where cocaine in the form of crack is bought, sold, and smoked.
  • 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 team — a medical team with special equipment able to be mobilized quickly to treat cardiac arrest
  • crash test — the act of crashing a vehicle under controlled conditions in order to assess its safety for passengers
  • 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
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