10-letter words containing h, o, t, a
- blood bath — a killing of many people; massacre
- blood heat — Blood heat is a temperature of 37°C, which is about the same as the normal temperature of the human body.
- bluethroat — a small brownish European songbird, Cyanosylvia svecica, related to the thrushes, the male of which has a blue throat: family Muscicapidae
- boat patch — an oval patch for plywood, terminating in a point at each end.
- boat shoes — shoes for wearing on board boats, often laced moccasins
- boatwright — a craftsman who builds wooden boats.
- bobble hat — A bobble hat is a woollen hat with a bobble on it.
- bone earth — bone ash.
- bonnethead — a hammerhead shark, Sphyrna tiburo, found in shallow waters from Brazil to Massachusetts, having a spade-shaped head.
- book match — a match in or from a matchbook.
- booth-babe — an attractive woman hired to draw attendees of commercial exhibitions into promotional booths
- bottlehead — bottlenose (def 2).
- bowler hat — A bowler hat is a round, hard, black hat with a narrow brim which is worn by men, especially British businessmen. Bowler hats are no longer very common.
- brachiator — any primate which swings by its arms from one hold to the next
- branch out — If a person or an organization branches out, they do something that is different from their normal activities or work.
- broadcloth — fabric woven on a wide loom
- broadsheet — A broadsheet is a newspaper that is printed on large sheets of paper. Broadsheets are generally considered to be more serious than other newspapers. Compare tabloid.
- cablephoto — a photographic image transmitted via cable, especially for use by newspapers or in police work.
- cacotrophy — malnutrition
- caecotroph — (biology) In certain mammals, especially rabbits and some rodents, a cake or pellet of food which is produced by means of digestion and expulsion through the anus.
- call forth — to cause (something) to come into action or existence
- camphorate — to apply, treat with, or impregnate with camphor
- caoutchouc — rubber; esp. India rubber, or crude, natural rubber, obtained from latex
- cart horse — A cart horse is a large, powerful horse that is used to pull carts or farm machinery.
- carthorses — Plural form of carthorse.
- cartograph — the production of maps, including construction of projections, design, compilation, drafting, and reproduction.
- cartoonish — like a cartoon, esp in being one-dimensional, brightly coloured, or exaggerated
- cartophile — a cartophilist
- cartophily — the hobby of collecting cigarette cards
- cartouches — Plural form of cartouche.
- cash ratio — the ratio of cash on hand to total deposits that by law or custom commercial banks must maintain
- cashpoints — Plural form of cashpoint.
- cataphonic — catacoustic or of or relating to cataphonics
- 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.
- catch cold — to become ill with a cold
- catch crop — a quick-growing crop planted between two regular crops grown in consecutive seasons, or between two rows of regular crops in the same season
- catch-colt — the offspring of a mare bred accidentally.
- catch-cord — a cord or wire located near a selvage, used to form a loop or deflect the filling yarn not intended to be woven permanently in with the regular selvage.
- catchwords — Plural form of catchword.
- catholicon — a remedy for all ills; panacea
- catholicos — the patriarch of the Armenian Church
- catholicus — catholicos.
- cfortran.h — (library) A transparent, machine independent interface between C and Fortran routines and global data, developed by Burkhard Burow at CERN. It provides macros which allow the C preprocessor to translate a simple description of a C (Fortran) routine or global data into a Fortran (C) interface. Version 2.6 runs on VAX/VMS/Ultrix, DECstation, Silicon Graphics, IBM RS/6000, Sun, Cray, Apollo, HP9000, LynxOS, f2c, NAG f90. cfortran.h was reviewed in RS/Magazine November 1992 and a user's experiences with cfortran.h are described in the Jan 93 issue of Computers in Physics.
- chadderton — a town in NW England, in Oldham unitary authority, in Greater Manchester. Pop: 33 001 (2001)
- chaetotaxy — the arrangement of bristles on the exoskeleton of an insect.
- chain shot — cannon shot comprising two balls or half balls joined by a chain, much used formerly, esp in naval warfare to destroy rigging
- chalcocite — a lead-grey or black mineral, found as a copper ore or in veins. It is a source of copper. Composition: copper sulphide. Formula: Cu2S. Crystal structure: orthorhombic
- chalcolite — torbernite.
- chalkstone — tophus
- chamberpot — a vessel for urine, used in bedrooms