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

  • biographee — a person whose biography has been written
  • biographer — Someone's biographer is a person who writes an account of their life.
  • biographic — of or relating to a person's life: He's gathering biographical data for his book on Milton.
  • biotherapy — the treatment of disease by means of substances, as serums, vaccines, penicillin, etc., secreted by or derived from living organisms
  • birth plan — a statement by a mother telling doctors and midwives how she would like her labour to proceed
  • birthplace — Your birthplace is the place where you were born.
  • blepharism — spasm of the eyelids, causing rapid involuntary blinking
  • brachiopod — any marine invertebrate animal of the phylum Brachiopoda, having a ciliated feeding organ (lophophore) and a shell consisting of dorsal and ventral valves
  • bursarship — a scholarship or grant awarded esp in Scottish and New Zealand schools, universities etc
  • caerphilly — a market town in SE Wales, in Caerphilly county borough: site of the largest castle in Wales (13th–14th centuries). Pop: 31 060 (2001)
  • caipirinha — A Brazilian cocktail made with cachaca, lime or lemon juice, sugar, and crushed ice.
  • caligraphy — Alternative form of calligraphy.
  • calligraph — to produce by means of calligraphy: The love letter was calligraphed in a delicate hand.
  • camp chair — a lightweight folding chair
  • camp shirt — a short-sleeved shirt or blouse with a notched collar and usually two breast pockets.
  • campership — financial aid given to a needy youngster to attend summer camp.
  • careership — An approach to career-related decision-making, combining rationality, interactions with others, and responses to sometimes unpredictable events.
  • cargo ship — a ship carrying cargo
  • carhopping — the practice of serving customers at a drive-in restaurant
  • cartophile — a cartophilist
  • cartophily — the hobby of collecting cigarette cards
  • cash price — discount
  • cash prize — a prize in a competition that takes the form of money
  • cat-harpin — any of a number of short ropes or rods for gathering in shrouds near their tops.
  • cataphoric — the use of a word or phrase to refer to a following word or group of words, as the use of the phrase as follows.
  • chaperonin — A protein that aids the assembly and folding of other protein molecules in living cells.
  • chin strap — a strap attached to a hat for passing under the chin of the wearer.
  • chin-strap — a strap attached to a hat for passing under the chin of the wearer.
  • chinagraph — a coloured pencil used for writing on china, glass, etc
  • chinstraps — Plural form of chinstrap.
  • chirograph — an indenture
  • ciliophora — a phylum of protozoa in the kingdom Protista, comprising the ciliates.
  • climograph — A chart that summarizes the climate of a place by superimposing a line graph representing average monthly temperature on a bar chart representing average monthly precipitation.
  • clinograph — (in mining, construction, etc.) an instrument that records the deviation of boreholes or the like from the vertical.
  • coach trip — any tour, journey, or voyage made by bus
  • crepe hair — artificial hair, usually plaited and made of wool or vegetable fibre, used in theatrical make-up
  • curateship — the office or position of a curate
  • dealership — A dealership is a company that sells cars, usually for one car company.
  • diagraphic — descriptive; relating to illustration by drawing or graphics
  • diaphorase — a flavoprotein enzyme operating in mitochondria, acting as a catalyst in the process of dye reduction or oxidation
  • diaphragms — Plural form of diaphragm.
  • dictagraph — Alt form dictograph.
  • dictograph — a telephonic instrument for secretly monitoring or recording conversations by means of a small, sensitive, and often concealed microphone
  • diphtheria — a febrile, infectious disease caused by the bacillus Corynebacterium diphtheriae, and characterized by the formation of a false membrane in the air passages, especially the throat.
  • dirt cheap — very inexpensive: The house may need a lot of work, but it was dirt-cheap.
  • dirt-cheap — very inexpensive: The house may need a lot of work, but it was dirt-cheap.
  • dispatcher — a person who dispatches.
  • dittograph — an instance of dittography; a passage containing reduplicated syllables, letters, etc.
  • dollarship — the fact of being denominated in dollars
  • drosophila — a fly of the genus Drosophila, especially D. melanogaster, used in laboratory studies of genetics and development.
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