10-letter words containing e, t, c, h, s
- 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.
- codeswitch — Alternative form of code-switch.
- colchester — a town in E England, in NE Essex; university (1964). Pop: 104 390 (2001)
- consisteth — Archaic third-person singular form of consist.
- 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.
- cost-share — to share the cost of: to cost-share a joint venture.
- couchettes — Plural form of couchette.
- 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.
- crash diet — a strict diet which is intended to produce drastic results in a relatively short period
- 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
- crib sheet — a sheet containing notes, etc, on a particular subject, used as a study aid
- crotchless — (of a garment) having a hole cut so as to leave the genitals uncovered.
- curateship — the office or position of a curate
- cuttlefish — A cuttlefish is a sea animal that has a soft body and a hard shell inside.
- cytherea's — Aphrodite: so called because of her birth in the sea near Cythera.
- deathcamas — any of various plants (genus Zigadenus) of the lily family, with grasslike basal leaves and clusters of greenish or white flowers: often poisonous to sheep
- decathexis — to withdraw one's feelings of attachment from (a person, idea, or object), as in anticipation of a future loss: He decathected from her in order to cope with her impending death.
- decathlons — Plural form of decathlon.
- decreaseth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decrease.
- descendeth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of descend.
- despatched — Simple past tense and past participle of despatch.
- despatcher — Alternative form of dispatcher.
- despatches — Plural form of despatch.
- disenchant — to rid of or free from enchantment, illusion, credulity, etc.; disillusion: The harshness of everyday reality disenchanted him of his idealistic hopes.
- dispatched — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- dispatcher — a person who dispatches.
- dispatches — Plural form of dispatch.
- ditheistic — Of or pertaining to ditheism, the belief in two gods.
- docentship — privatdocent.
- dogwatches — Plural form of dogwatch.
- dorchester — a town in S Dorsetshire, in S England, on the Frome River: named Casterbridge in Thomas Hardy's novels.
- dutch rise — an increase in wages that is of no benefit to the recipient
- dutchesses — Plural form of dutchess.
- ecthlipsis — loss of a consonant, especially, in Latin, loss of a final m before a word beginning with a vowel or h.
- ectomorphs — Plural form of ectomorph.
- ectophytes — Plural form of ectophyte.
- ectotherms — Plural form of ectotherm.
- eightscore — one hundred and sixty
- ekphrastic — Pertaining to ekphrasis; clear, lucid.
- encashment — (finance) The payment in cash of a note, draft, etc.
- enchanters — Plural form of enchanter.
- entrenches — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of entrench.
- epicanthus — (anatomy) A skin fold of the upper eyelid, typical to East Asians.