10-letter words containing h, a, y, c, o
- iconomachy — opposition to the worship of images or icons
- inchoately — not yet completed or fully developed; rudimentary.
- isocephaly — (of a composition) having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
- jacky howe — (formerly) a sleeveless flannel shirt worn by sheep shearers
- johnnycake — a cake or bread made of corn meal and water or milk, usually cooked on a griddle.
- lachrymose — suggestive of or tending to cause tears; mournful.
- leucopathy — (dated) albinism.
- lithomancy — Divination with the use of precious or semi-precious stones, gemstones, or normal stones by either interpreting the light they reflect (crystallomancy), or how they fall (sortilege).
- macrophyte — a plant, especially a marine plant, large enough to be visible to the naked eye.
- melancholy — sober thoughtfulness; pensiveness.
- moucharaby — a projecting second-storey window or balcony enclosed with latticework
- mycorrhiza — a symbiotic association of the mycelium of a fungus, especially a basidiomycete, with the roots of certain plants, in which the hyphae form a closely woven mass around the rootlets or penetrate the cells of the root.
- mythoclast — a destroyer or debunker of myths.
- necrophagy — The eating of dead or decaying animal flesh.
- nonstarchy — Alternative spelling of non-starchy.
- notch baby — a person who was born in the U.S. between 1917 and 1921 and as a retiree received lower cost-of-living increases in Social Security than others after Congress readjusted Social Security benefits in 1977.
- ochlocracy — government by the mob; mob rule; mobocracy.
- oxycephaly — a malformation in which the head is somewhat pointed, caused by premature closure of the skull sutures.
- paronychia — inflammation of the folds of skin bordering a nail of a finger or toe, usually characterized by infection and pus formation; felon.
- phagocytic — any cell, as a macrophage, that ingests and destroys foreign particles, bacteria, and cell debris.
- phonically — of or relating to speech sounds.
- photically — in a photic manner, by way of photic processes
- phylloclad — cladophyll
- physiocrat — one of a school of political economists who followed Quesnay in holding that an inherent natural order properly governed society, regarding land as the basis of wealth and taxation, and advocating a laissez-faire economy.
- play havoc — to cause a great deal of damage, distress, or confusion (to)
- playschool — preschool, nursery school
- polyarchic — a form of government in which power is vested in three or more persons.
- polychaete — any annelid of the class Polychaeta, having unsegmented swimming appendages with many setae or bristles.
- polymathic — a person of great learning in several fields of study; polyhistor.
- polyphagic — Pathology. excessive desire to eat.
- polyphasic — having more than two phases.
- psychogram — a message believed to be written by a spirit or authored by psychical means
- psychopath — a person with a psychopathic personality, which manifests as amoral and antisocial behavior, lack of ability to love or establish meaningful personal relationships, extreme egocentricity, failure to learn from experience, etc.
- rachiotomy — (surgery) The surgical procedure of cutting, or making an incision in a vertebra.
- rock hyrax — an African and Middle Eastern hyrax of the genus Procavia that lives in rocky places.
- scatophagy — the act of eating dung or excrement
- schizogamy — reproduction characterized by division of the organism into sexual and asexual parts, as in certain polychaetes.
- school day — any day on which school is conducted.
- schooldays — school-age period
- schoolyard — a playground or sports field near a school.
- scyphozoan — any coelenterate of the class Scyphozoa, comprising the true marine jellyfishes.
- shellycoat — a mythical creature dressed in shells who haunts rivers and streams
- shylockian — a relentless and revengeful moneylender in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.
- sociopathy — a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.
- sycophancy — self-seeking or servile flattery.
- synchronal — synchronous.
- tachometry — any of various instruments for measuring or indicating velocity or speed, as of a machine, a river, or the blood.
- tachypnoea — excessively rapid respiration.
- tauromachy — the art or technique of bullfighting.
- thiocyanic — of, from, or relating to a sulphacid (or liquid acid HSCN) having a strong odour but no colour