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10-letter words containing h, i, e, r, a

  • campership — financial aid given to a needy youngster to attend summer camp.
  • cane chair — a chair, the back and seat of which are made of interlaced strips of cane.
  • 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)
  • careership — An approach to career-related decision-making, combining rationality, interactions with others, and responses to sometimes unpredictable events.
  • 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
  • cartophile — a cartophilist
  • cash price — discount
  • cash prize — a prize in a competition that takes the form of money
  • cashiering — to dismiss (a military officer) from service, especially with disgrace.
  • catarrhine — (of apes and Old World monkeys) having the nostrils set close together and opening to the front of the face
  • catch fire — to ignite
  • catechizer — One who catechizes.
  • catwhisker — a sharply pointed, flexible wire used to make contact with a specific point on a semiconductor or a crystal detector
  • chaffering — Present participle of chaffer.
  • chagrinned — a feeling of vexation, marked by disappointment or humiliation.
  • chain fern — any of several ferns of the genus Woodwardia, having a chainlike row of sori on either side of the midrib of each fertile leaflet.
  • chain gear — a gear assembly in which motion is transmitted by means of a chain.
  • chain rule — a theorem that may be used in the differentiation of the function of a function. It states that du/dx = (du/dy)(dy/dx), where y is a function of x and u a function of y
  • chainbrake — a device for cutting off the power to a chainsaw if the saw kicks back
  • chairborne — having an administrative or desk job rather than a more active one
  • 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
  • chambertin — a dry red burgundy wine produced in Gevrey-Chambertin in E France
  • chamfering — Present participle of chamfer.
  • chanceries — Plural form of chancery.
  • chandelier — A chandelier is a large, decorative frame which holds light bulbs or candles and hangs from the ceiling.
  • chaperonin — A protein that aids the assembly and folding of other protein molecules in living cells.
  • charcutier — a pork butcher.
  • chari-nile — a group of languages of E Africa, now generally regarded as a branch of the Nilo-Saharan family, spoken in parts of the Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, and adjacent countries
  • charioteer — In ancient times, a charioteer was a chariot driver.
  • charitable — A charitable organization or activity helps and supports people who are ill, very poor, or who have a disability.
  • charles ii — known as Charles the Bald. 823–877 ad, Holy Roman Emperor (875–877) and, as Charles I, king of France (843–877)
  • charles iv — known as Charles the Fair. 1294–1328, king of France (1322–28): brother of Isabella of France, with whom he intrigued against her husband, Edward II of England
  • charles ix — 1550–74, king of France (1560–74), son of Catherine de' Medici and Henry II: his reign was marked by war between Huguenots and Catholics
  • charles vi — known as Charles the Mad or Charles the Well-Beloved. 1368–1422, king of France (1380–1422): defeated by Henry V of England at Agincourt (1415), he was forced by the Treaty of Troyes (1420) to recognize Henry as his successor
  • charles xi — 1655–97, king of Sweden (1660–97), who established an absolute monarchy and defeated Denmark (1678)
  • chartering — a document, issued by a sovereign or state, outlining the conditions under which a corporation, colony, city, or other corporate body is organized, and defining its rights and privileges.
  • chattering — rapid and continuous talk
  • chaucerian — of, relating to, or characteristic of the writings of Geoffrey Chaucer
  • check rail — (in a window sash) a meeting rail, especially one closing against the corresponding rail with a diagonal or rabbeted overlap.
  • 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.
  • chelicerae — one member of the first pair of usually pincerlike appendages of spiders and other arachnids.
  • chemiatric — healing by the use of chemicals
  • cherubical — Cherubic.
  • chevaliers — Plural form of chevalier.
  • chevrotain — any small timid ruminant artiodactyl mammal of the genera Tragulus and Hyemoschus, of S and SE Asia: family Tragulidae. They resemble rodents, and the males have long tusklike upper canines
  • chi-square — an inferential statistic common in survey research
  • chickarees — Plural form of chickaree.
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