10-letter words containing h, a, p, e
- borah peak — a mountain in central Idaho, in the Lost River Range: highest peak in Idaho. 12,662 feet (3861 meters).
- bread shop — a baker's shop
- bucephalus — the favourite horse of Alexander the Great
- cablephoto — a photographic image transmitted via cable, especially for use by newspapers or in police work.
- caecotroph — (biology) In certain mammals, especially rabbits and some rodents, a cake or pellet of food which is produced by means of digestion and expulsion through the anus.
- caerphilly — a market town in SE Wales, in Caerphilly county borough: site of the largest castle in Wales (13th–14th centuries). Pop: 31 060 (2001)
- calciphile — calcicole.
- calciphobe — calcifuge.
- caliphates — Plural form of caliphate.
- campership — financial aid given to a needy youngster to attend summer camp.
- camphorate — to apply, treat with, or impregnate with camphor
- can't help — If you say you can't help thinking something, you are expressing your opinion in an indirect way, often because you think it seems rude.
- canephoros — in ancient Greece, any of the maidens who carried on her head a basket holding the sacred things used at feasts
- cape dutch — (in South Africa) a distinctive style of furniture or architecture
- cape wrath — a promontory at the NW extremity of the Scottish mainland
- cape-wrath — Cape, a high promontory in NW Scotland: most NW point on mainland.
- capnophile — (biology) A microorganism that requires or grows best in presence of high concentrations of carbon dioxide.
- cardphones — Plural form of cardphone.
- careership — An approach to career-related decision-making, combining rationality, interactions with others, and responses to sometimes unpredictable events.
- carpophore — the central column surrounded by carpels in such flowers as the geranium
- cartophile — a cartophilist
- cash price — discount
- cash prize — a prize in a competition that takes the form of money
- catchpenny — designed to have instant appeal, esp in order to sell quickly and easily without regard for quality
- cathepsins — Plural form of cathepsin.
- cattleship — a large vessel for the transportation of livestock.
- cellophane — Cellophane is a thin, transparent material that is used to wrap things.
- cephalalgy — Dated form of cephalalgia.
- cephalexin — a cephalosporin antibiotic prescribed for mild infections of the skin, ears, throat, lungs, or urinary tract
- cephalitis — encephalitis.
- cephalonia — a mountainous island in the Ionian Sea, the largest of the Ionian Islands, off the W coast of Greece. Pop: 36 404 (2001). Area: 935 sq km (365 sq miles)
- cephalopod — any marine mollusc of the class Cephalopoda, characterized by well-developed head and eyes and a ring of sucker-bearing tentacles. The group also includes the octopuses, squids, cuttlefish, and pearly nautilus
- cerography — the art of engraving on a waxed plate on which a printing surface is created by electrotyping
- chainplate — a metal plate on the side of a vessel, to which the shrouds are attached
- chamberpot — a vessel for urine, used in bedrooms
- champagnes — Plural form of champagne.
- champaigne — Philippe de (filip də). 1602–74, French painter, born in Brussels: noted particularly for his portraits and historical and religious scenes
- championed — a person who has defeated all opponents in a competition or series of competitions, so as to hold first place: the heavyweight boxing champion.
- channel op — (messaging) /chan'l op/ (Or "op", "chan op", "chop") Someone who is endowed with privileges on a particular IRC channel. These privileges include the right to kick users, to change various status bits and to make others into CHOPs. The full form, "channel operator", is almost never used.
- chaparejos — chaps1
- chapatties — Plural form of chapatty.
- chaperoned — a person, usually a married or older woman, who, for propriety, accompanies a young unmarried woman in public or who attends a party of young unmarried men and women.
- chaperones — Plural form of chaperone.
- chaperonin — A protein that aids the assembly and folding of other protein molecules in living cells.
- chapfallen — dejected; downhearted; crestfallen
- chaptalize — to add sugar to (a fermenting wine) to increase the alcohol content
- chapter 11 — the statute regarding the reorganization of a failing business empowering a court to allow the debtors to remain in control of the business to attempt to save it
- charge-cap — (formerly in Britain) to impose on (a local authority) an upper limit on the community charge it may levy
- charged up — to impose or ask as a price or fee: That store charges $25 for leather gloves.
- charophyte — any green algae of the class Charophyceae (or group Charophyta), comprising the stoneworts.