10-letter words containing h, e, m, r, a
- camel hair — the hair of the camel, used especially for cloth, painters' brushes, and Oriental rugs.
- camel-hair — A camel-hair coat is made of a kind of soft, thick woollen cloth, usually creamy-brown in colour.
- camelshair — (attributive) The hair of a camel, used for paintbrushes etc.
- camera-shy — Someone who is camera-shy is nervous and uncomfortable about being filmed or about having their photograph taken.
- campership — financial aid given to a needy youngster to attend summer camp.
- camphorate — to apply, treat with, or impregnate with camphor
- carchemish — an ancient city in Syria on the Euphrates, lying on major trade routes; site of a victory of the Babylonians over the Egyptians (605 bc)
- carmarthen — a market town in S Wales, the administrative centre of Carmarthenshire: Norman castle. Pop: 14 648 (2001)
- carmichael — Hoaglund Howard (ˈhəʊɡlənd), known as Hoagy. 1899–1981, US pianist, singer, and composer of such standards as "Star Dust" (1929)
- carthamine — a yellow or red dye obtained from safflower
- cash terms — the terms of a business transaction that is conducted in ready money
- cathemeral — Relating to organisms that have sporadic and random intervals during the day or night in which food is acquired.
- chairwomen — Plural form of chairwoman.
- chambering — a room, usually private, in a house or apartment, especially a bedroom: She retired to her chamber.
- chamberlin — ˈThomas Chrowder (ˈkraʊdər ) ; krouˈdər) 1843-1928; U.S. geologist
- chamberpot — a vessel for urine, used in bedrooms
- chambertin — a dry red burgundy wine produced in Gevrey-Chambertin in E France
- chambranle — the three-sided ornamental bordering found around doors, windows, and fireplaces
- chamfering — Present participle of chamfer.
- changeroom — a room for use in changing one's clothes.
- check mark — A check mark is a written mark like a V with the right side extended. It is used to show that something is correct or has been selected or dealt with.
- chemiatric — healing by the use of chemicals
- childermas — Holy Innocents Day, Dec 28
- chimaerism — the insertion of cells of a different genetic make-up into a fetus or embryo
- chimerical — wildly fanciful; imaginary
- chloramine — an unstable colourless liquid with a pungent odour, made by the reaction of sodium hypochlorite and ammonia. Formula: NH2Cl
- chrematist — a person who studies political economy or is interested in the wealth of countries
- chroma key — an electronic special-effects system for combining a desired background with live foreground action.
- chromagens — Plural form of chromagen.
- chromatype — a procedure in photography that uses photographic paper that is made reactive to light by the use of a salt of chromium
- chromonema — a coiled chromatin thread within a single chromosome
- chyloderma — (medicine) swelling of the scrotum resulting from chronic lymphatic obstruction.
- cibachrome — the old name for the Ilfochrome photographic printing process
- cimeliarch — a room for keeping the valuables of a church.
- clawhammer — denoting a style of plucking the strings of a banjo in which the hand forms a clawlike shape
- coachmaker — A coachbuilder.
- comanchero — (in 19th-century New Mexico) a trader who traded with the Native American nomadic tribes such as the Comanche, Navajo, and Apache
- crash team — a medical team with special equipment able to be mobilized quickly to treat cardiac arrest
- dead march — a piece of solemn funeral music played to accompany a procession, esp at military funerals
- decadrachm — a silver coin of ancient Greece equal to 10 drachmas.
- demography — Demography is the study of the changes in numbers of births, deaths, marriages, and cases of disease in a community over a period of time.
- dermatherm — an instrument for measuring skin temperature.
- dermopathy — Disease of the skin.
- diathermal — of or relating to diathermy
- diathermic — of or relating to diathermy
- dichromate — any salt or ester of dichromic acid. Dichromate salts contain the ion Cr2O72–
- disencharm — To free from the influence of a charm or spell; to disenchant.
- dreamwhile — the duration of a dream
- earthmover — a vehicle, as a bulldozer, for pushing or carrying excavated earth from place to place.
- earthwoman — a female inhabitant or native of the planet Earth.