10-letter words containing h, i, r, u
- chi-square — an inferential statistic common in survey research
- chiricahua — a member of an Apache Indian group, formerly located in the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico, now living primarily in Oklahoma and New Mexico.
- chirruping — Present participle of chirrup.
- chirurgeon — surgeon
- chirurgery — surgery.
- chirurgion — Alternative form of chirurgeon; archaic spelling of surgeon.
- chivalrous — A chivalrous man is polite, kind, and unselfish, especially towards women.
- choreutics — a system that analyzes form in movement, developed by Rudolf von Laban (1879–1958), Hungarian choreographer and dance theorist.
- choriambus — choriamb.
- chromidium — a length or particle of chromatin in cell cytoplasm
- chrysippus — 280–209? b.c, Greek Stoic philosopher.
- chundering — vomit.
- chuntering — to grumble or grouse mildly or tediously.
- churchlike — resembling or appropriate to a church: churchlike silence.
- churlishly — In a churlish manner.
- churnalism — a type of journalism that relies on reusing existing material such as press releases and wire service reports instead of original research, esp as a result of an increased demand for news content
- chuttering — Present participle of chutter.
- club chair — a large, heavily upholstered armchair, usually with a low back
- countryish — similar to that which is typical of country music
- courtships — Plural form of courtship.
- cruikshank — George. 1792–1878, English illustrator and caricaturist
- crunchings — any actions in which things are crunched
- crunchtime — the tense, critical phase of an activity
- crushingly — You can use crushingly to emphasize the degree of a negative quality.
- crutchings — the wool clipped from a sheep's hindquarters
- cuchifrito — a small piece of pork, pig's stomach, etc. dipped in batter and deep-fried
- curateship — the office or position of a curate
- dairyhouse — A farm building operating as a dairy.
- dhaulagiri — a mountain in W central Nepal, in the Himalayas. Height: 8172 m (26 810 ft)
- dimorphous — having two forms.
- disburthen — (obsolete) disburden.
- disfurnish — to deprive of something with which a person or thing is furnished; divest of possessions; strip.
- distraught — distracted; deeply agitated.
- dolichurus — a dactylic hexameter characterized by a redundant syllable at the end
- dough bird — the Eskimo curlew.
- draughtier — Comparative form of draughty.
- draughting — a drawing, sketch, or design.
- drive-thru — a takeaway restaurant, bank, etc designed so that customers can use it without leaving their cars
- drug habit — addiction to recreational drugs
- dust whirl — dust devil.
- dutch rise — an increase in wages that is of no benefit to the recipient
- dyrrachium — a port in W Albania, on the Adriatic. Pop: 86 900 (1991 est)
- embothrium — any evergreen shrub of the genus Embothrium, esp E. coccineum, native to South America but widely cultivated as an ornamental for its scarlet flowers: family Proteaceae
- eriophorum — cotton grass
- euchlorine — an explosive gaseous mixture of chlorine and chlorine dioxide
- euharmonic — producing perfect concord or harmony
- euhemerism — the theory that gods arose out of the deification of historical heroes
- euhemerize — (transitive) to explain or interpret something using the theory of Euhemeros.
- euphemizer — One who, or that which, euphemizes.
- euphorbias — Plural form of euphorbia.