10-letter words containing h, o, p
- chimneypot — a short pipe on the top of a chimney, which increases the draught and directs the smoke upwards
- chip wagon — a small van in which chips are cooked and sold
- chirograph — an indenture
- chlorophyl — Alternative form of chlorophyll.
- chokepoint — a place of greatest congestion and often hazard; bottleneck.
- chomophyte — any plant that grows on rocky ledges or in fissures and crevices
- chop block — butcher-block.
- chop logic — to use excessively subtle or involved logic or argument
- chop-house — a restaurant specializing in chop, steaks, and the like.
- chopfallen — chapfallen
- chophouses — Plural form of chophouse.
- chopped-up — cut into pieces
- choppiness — (of the sea, a lake, etc.) forming short, irregular, broken waves.
- chopsticks — a pair of small sticks of wood or ivory, held together in one hand and used in some Asian countries as utensils, as to lift food to the mouth
- chorograph — An instrument for constructing triangles in marine surveying, etc.
- choropleth — a symbol or marked and bounded area on a map denoting the distribution of some property
- christophe — Henri (ɑ̃ri). 1767–1820, Haitian revolutionary leader; king of Haiti (1811–20)
- chromatype — a procedure in photography that uses photographic paper that is made reactive to light by the use of a salt of chromium
- chromophil — a cell that takes a stain easily
- chronopher — an instrument for transmitting time signals electronically.
- chrysophan — a glucoside that is bitter to the taste and yellow in colour
- cibophobia — The fear of, or aversion to, eating or food.
- ciliophora — a phylum of protozoa in the kingdom Protista, comprising the ciliates.
- cladophyll — a green, flattened branch arising from the axil of a leaf, with the shape and functions of a foliage leaf
- 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.
- clodhopper — a clumsy person; lout
- clomiphene — a drug that stimulates the production of egg cells in the ovary: used to treat infertility in women
- clothespin — A clothespin is the same as a clothes peg.
- cnidophore — a part or organ bearing cnidoblasts.
- co-publish — to publish (something) with another person or company
- coach park — an area reserved for parking coaches
- coach trip — any tour, journey, or voyage made by bus
- cochampion — a joint champion
- coffeeshop — Alternative form of coffee shop.
- coheirship — The state of being a coheir.
- cold-patch — to apply a cold patch to.
- collagraph — An artistic print made through the printmaking process of collagraphy.
- collophane — a massive, cryptocrystalline variety of apatite that is the principal component of phosphate rock and fossil bone.
- collophore — a ventral tubelike structure on the abdomen of a springtail.
- compelleth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of compel.
- comprehend — If you cannot comprehend something, you cannot understand it.
- consulship — an official appointed by the government of one country to look after its commercial interests and the welfare of its citizens in another country.
- copenhagen — the capital of Denmark, a port on Zealand and the Amager Islands on a site inhabited for some 6000 years: exports chiefly agricultural products; iron and steel works; university (1479). Pop: 501 664 (2004 est)
- copperhead — a venomous reddish-brown snake, Agkistrodon contortrix, of the eastern US: family Crotalidae (pit vipers)
- coprophagy — feeding on dung, as certain beetles.
- copyholder — one who reads aloud from the copy as the proof corrector follows the reading in the proof
- copyrights — Plural form of copyright.
- cormophyte — any of the Cormophyta, a major division (now obsolete) of plants having a stem, root, and leaves: includes the mosses, ferns, and seed plants
- coryphaeus — (in ancient Greek drama) the leader of the chorus