10-letter words containing h, a, c, u
- cashew nut — edible nut
- catch-ups' — an effort to reach or pass a norm, especially after a period of delay: After the slowdown there was a catch-up in production.
- catechumen — a person, esp in the early Church, undergoing instruction prior to baptism
- catholicus — catholicos.
- cavaquinho — A small, four-stringed guitar resembling a ukulele, popular in Brazil and Portugal.
- chain pump — a pump consisting of buckets, plates, or the like, rising upon a chain within a cylinder for raising liquids entering the cylinder at the bottom.
- chain rule — a theorem that may be used in the differentiation of the function of a function. It states that du/dx = (du/dy)(dy/dx), where y is a function of x and u a function of y
- chairbound — unable to walk; dependent on a wheelchair for mobility
- chalumeaux — Plural form of chalumeau.
- chanteuses — Plural form of chanteuse.
- charcutier — a pork butcher.
- charged up — to impose or ask as a price or fee: That store charges $25 for leather gloves.
- charmonium — an elementary particle that contains an antiquark and a charm quark
- charthouse — the compartment on a ship or boat where charts are kept
- chartreuse — either of two liqueurs, green or yellow, made from herbs and flowers
- chartulary — cartulary
- chaucerian — of, relating to, or characteristic of the writings of Geoffrey Chaucer
- chaudfroid — a sweet or savoury jellied sauce used to coat cold meat, chicken, etc
- chauffeurs — Plural form of chauffeur.
- chauffeuse — a fireside chair having a low seat and a high back.
- chautauqua — (in the US, formerly) a summer school or educational meeting held in the summer
- chauvinism — Chauvinism is a strong, unreasonable belief that your own country is more important and morally better than other people's.
- chauvinist — a person who is aggressively and blindly patriotic, especially one devoted to military glory.
- cherubical — Cherubic.
- chi-square — an inferential statistic common in survey research
- chihuahuas — Plural form of chihuahua.
- chikamatsu — Monzaemon [mawn-zah-e-mawn] /ˈmɔn zɑ ɛˈmɔn/ (Show IPA), 1653–1724, Japanese playwright.
- china blue — a bright greenish blue.
- chine nual — (documentation) /sheen'yu-*l/ (MIT) The LISP Machine Manual, so called because the title was wrapped around the cover so only those letters showed on the front.
- chinquapin — a dwarf chestnut tree, Castanea pumila, of the eastern US, yielding edible nuts
- chiricahua — a member of an Apache Indian group, formerly located in the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico, now living primarily in Oklahoma and New Mexico.
- chivalrous — A chivalrous man is polite, kind, and unselfish, especially towards women.
- cholagogue — a drug or other substance that promotes the flow of bile from the gall bladder into the duodenum
- choliambus — a line of iambic meter with a spondee or trochee replacing the last foot.
- choriambus — choriamb.
- chrononaut — (science fiction, dated) A time-traveller.
- chuang-tzu — Also, Chwang-tse. (Chuang Chow) flourished 4th century b.c, Chinese mystic and philosopher.
- chuck away — If you chuck something away, you throw it away or waste it.
- chuckwagon — A wagon equipped with food and cooking utensils, as on a ranch or in a lumber camp.
- chuckwalla — a lizard, Sauromalus obesus, that has an inflatable body and inhabits desert regions of the southwestern US: family Iguanidae (iguanas)
- chug-a-lug — to consume (a drink) in one gulp
- chupacabra — An animal said to exist in parts of Latin America, where it supposedly attacks animals, especially goats.
- churchward — in the direction of the church
- churchyard — A churchyard is an area of land around a church where dead people are buried.
- churnalism — a type of journalism that relies on reusing existing material such as press releases and wire service reports instead of original research, esp as a result of an increased demand for news content
- chylaceous — of or resembling chyle.
- club chair — a large, heavily upholstered armchair, usually with a low back
- club wheat — a wheat, Triticum compactum, characterized by compact, club-shaped spikes, used for making pastry flour and the like.
- clutch bag — clutch1 (def 15).
- coal chute — an inclined channel or vertical passage down which coal may be dropped