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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.
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