10-letter words containing h, a, r, d, c
- chargehand — a workman whose grade of responsibility is just below that of a foreman
- chaudfroid — a sweet or savoury jellied sauce used to coat cold meat, chicken, etc
- check card — debit card.
- cheddaring — The stage of manufacturing Cheddar cheese and similar cheeses where the curd is cut into small pieces, often cubes, to drain the whey before being stacked and turned.
- chessboard — A chessboard is a square board with 64 black and white squares that is used for playing chess.
- child star — a child who attains celebrity status
- child-care — having to do with the care of children, specif., of preschool children whose parents are employed
- childermas — Holy Innocents Day, Dec 28
- chloridate — to expose to or prepare with a chloride
- chondromas — Plural form of chondroma.
- chowkidars — Plural form of chowkidar.
- chromatids — Plural form of chromatid.
- chromatoid — Resembling chromatin.
- churchward — in the direction of the church
- churchyard — A churchyard is an area of land around a church where dead people are buried.
- chyloderma — (medicine) swelling of the scrotum resulting from chronic lymphatic obstruction.
- clavichord — A clavichord is a musical instrument rather like a small piano. When you press the keys, small pieces of metal come up and hit the strings. Clavichords were especially popular during the eighteenth century.
- cloth yard — a medieval unit of measure for cloth, fixed at 37 inches by Edward VI of England: also used as a length for longbow arrows
- coauthored — one of two or more joint authors.
- condylarth — any of the primitive ungulate mammals of the extinct order Condylarthra, from the Paleocene and Eocene epochs, having a slender body, low-crowned teeth, and five-toed feet, each toe ending in a small hoof.
- copperhead — a venomous reddish-brown snake, Agkistrodon contortrix, of the eastern US: family Crotalidae (pit vipers)
- 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 hand — a style of handwriting formerly used in English law courts
- crackheads — Plural form of crackhead.
- 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-dive — a rapid dive by a submarine made at a steep angle, especially to avoid attack from a surface vessel or airplane.
- crash-land — If a pilot crash-lands an aircraft, or if it crash-lands, it lands more quickly and less safely than usual, for example when there is something wrong with the aircraft, and it cannot land normally.
- crawfished — Simple past tense and past participle of crawfish.
- crib death — Crib death is the sudden death of a baby while it is asleep, although the baby had not previously been ill.
- crithidial — relating to a developmental stage in protozoan parasites of the trypanosome group, now more commonly referred to as the epimastigote stage
- dead march — a piece of solemn funeral music played to accompany a procession, esp at military funerals
- death care — the products, services, and arrangements having to do with funerals and burials.
- debauchery — You use debauchery to refer to the drinking of alcohol or to sexual activity if you disapprove of it or regard it as excessive.
- decadrachm — a silver coin of ancient Greece equal to 10 drachmas.
- decahedron — a solid figure having ten plane faces
- deck chair — A deck chair is a simple chair with a folding frame, and a piece of canvas as the seat and back. Deck chairs are usually used on the beach, on a ship, or in the yard.
- deckchairs — Plural form of deckchair.
- decreaseth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decrease.
- despatcher — Alternative form of dispatcher.
- diachronic — of, relating to, or studying the development of a phenomenon through time; historical
- diagraphic — descriptive; relating to illustration by drawing or graphics
- diarrhetic — an intestinal disorder characterized by abnormal frequency and fluidity of fecal evacuations.
- diathermic — of or relating to diathermy
- dichromacy — The quality of having two independent channels for conveying color information in the eye.
- dichromasy — Alternative spelling of dichromacy.
- dichromate — any salt or ester of dichromic acid. Dichromate salts contain the ion Cr2O72–
- dictagraph — Alt form dictograph.
- dictograph — a telephonic instrument for secretly monitoring or recording conversations by means of a small, sensitive, and often concealed microphone
- dirt cheap — very inexpensive: The house may need a lot of work, but it was dirt-cheap.