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10-letter words containing h, o, t, a

  • condylarth — any of the primitive ungulate mammals of the extinct order Condylarthra, from the Paleocene and Eocene epochs, having a slender body, low-crowned teeth, and five-toed feet, each toe ending in a small hoof.
  • containeth — Archaic third-person singular form of contain.
  • contrahent — entering into an agreement or contract
  • coolie hat — a wide, conical straw hat worn especially as a shield against the sun.
  • corinthian — of, characteristic of, or relating to Corinth
  • cornstarch — Cornstarch is the same as cornflour.
  • cost-share — to share the cost of: to cost-share a joint venture.
  • cotehardie — (in the Middle Ages) a close-fitting outer garment with long sleeves, hip-length for men and full-length for women, often laced or buttoned down the front or back.
  • court hand — a style of handwriting formerly used in English law courts
  • cowboy hat — a wide-brimmed hat as worn by cowboys
  • cowcatcher — a metal frame on the front of a locomotive to clear the track of animals or other obstructions
  • crapshoots — Plural form of crapshoot.
  • crash boat — a small, fast boat used in rescue operations, especially for airplane crashes.
  • crosshatch — to shade or hatch (forms, figures, etc) with two or more sets of parallel lines that cross one another
  • crossmatch — (pathology) To test that the blood of a donor and recipient are compatible.
  • crosspatch — a peevish bad-tempered person
  • ctenophora — the phylum comprising the comb jellies.
  • cut-throat — If you describe a situation as cut-throat, you mean that the people or companies involved all want success and do not care if they harm each other in getting it.
  • cutthroats — Plural form of cutthroat.
  • cyanopathy — (medicine) A disease in which the surface of the body turns blue, usually arising from a malformation of the heart, which causes an imperfect arterialization of the blood.
  • cyanophyta — a phylum, or subkingdom, in the kingdom Monera, comprising the blue-green algae.
  • cyanophyte — a former name for a cyanobacterium
  • cyathiform — shaped like a drinking glass or cup, with a wider upper section
  • cytopathic — of or relating to cytopathy
  • death blow — If you say that an event or action deals a death blow to something such as a plan or hope, or is a death blow to something, you mean that it puts an end to it.
  • death code — A routine whose job is to set everything in the computer - registers, memory, flags - to zero, including that portion of memory where it is running; its last act is to stomp on its own "store zero" instruction. Death code isn't very useful, but writing it is an interesting hacking challenge on architectures where the instruction set makes it possible, such as the PDP-8 or the Data General Nova. Perhaps the ultimate death code is on the TI 990 series, where all registers are actually in RAM, and the instruction "store immediate 0" has the opcode 0. The program counter will immediately wrap around core as many times as it can until a user hits HALT. Any empty memory location is death code. Worse, the manufacturer recommended use of this instruction in startup code (which would be in ROM and therefore survive).
  • death roll — a list of the people killed in a war or disaster
  • death toll — The death toll of an accident, disaster, or war is the number of people who die in it.
  • deathblows — Plural form of deathblow.
  • decathlons — Plural form of decathlon.
  • deepthroat — To perform fellatio or irrumation on a man so that his entire penis is inside the mouth.
  • dehydrator — a person or thing that dehydrates.
  • demothball — to remove (naval or military equipment) from storage or reserve, usually for active duty; reactivate.
  • dermopathy — Disease of the skin.
  • dichromate — any salt or ester of dichromic acid. Dichromate salts contain the ion Cr2O72–
  • dictaphone — a tape recorder designed for recording dictation and later reproducing it for typing
  • dictograph — a telephonic instrument for secretly monitoring or recording conversations by means of a small, sensitive, and often concealed microphone
  • dimethoate — a highly toxic crystalline compound, C 5 H 12 NO 3 PS 2 , used as an insecticide.
  • diophantus — 3rd century ad, Greek mathematician, noted for his treatise on the theory of numbers, Arithmetica
  • dithionate — a salt of dithionic acid.
  • ditrochean — consisting of two trochees
  • dittograph — an instance of dittography; a passage containing reduplicated syllables, letters, etc.
  • dogcatcher — a person employed by a municipal pound, humane society, or the like, to find and impound stray or homeless dogs, cats, etc.
  • dogwatches — Plural form of dogwatch.
  • drunkathon — a session in which excessive quantities of alcohol are consumed
  • dutchwoman — a female native or inhabitant of the Netherlands; a woman of Dutch ancestry.
  • dystrophia — Medicine/Medical. faulty or inadequate nutrition or development.
  • each other — Although some insist that each other be used only in reference to two (The two candidates respected each other) and one another in reference to three or more (The three nations threaten one another), in standard practice they are interchangeable. Each other is not restricted to two, nor is one another restricted to three or more.  The possessive of each other is each other's; the possessive of one another is one another's.
  • earth tone — any of various warm, muted colors ranging basically from neutral to deep brown.
  • earthbound — headed for the earth: an earthbound meteorite.
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