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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.
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