10-letter words containing h, o, t, e
- chockstone — a stone securely jammed in a crack. It may vary in size from a pebble to a large boulder
- chocolates — Plural form of chocolate.
- chocolatey — a preparation of the seeds of cacao, roasted, husked, and ground, often sweetened and flavored, as with vanilla.
- chokepoint — a place of greatest congestion and often hazard; bottleneck.
- cholecysts — Plural form of cholecyst.
- chomophyte — any plant that grows on rocky ledges or in fissures and crevices
- chondrites — Plural form of chondrite.
- choreutics — a system that analyzes form in movement, developed by Rudolf von Laban (1879–1958), Hungarian choreographer and dance theorist.
- choristers — Plural form of chorister.
- choropleth — a symbol or marked and bounded area on a map denoting the distribution of some property
- choucroute — a dish, resembling sauerkraut, that consists of cabbage that has been preserved by soaking in pickle
- 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
- chrysolite — a yellowish-green gem derived chiefly from varieties of olivine
- chrysotile — a green, grey, or white fibrous mineral, a variety of serpentine, that is an important source of commercial asbestos. Formula: Mg3Si2O5(OH)4
- close shot — closeup (def 2).
- close with — to engage in battle with an enemy
- cloth beam — a roller, located at the front of a loom, on which woven material is wound after it leaves the breast beam.
- cloth ears — a deaf person
- cloth-like — resembling cloth
- clothespin — A clothespin is the same as a clothes peg.
- coal chute — an inclined channel or vertical passage down which coal may be dropped
- coat check — The coat check at a public building such as a theater or club is the place where customers can leave their coats, usually for a small fee.
- coathanger — Alternative spelling of coat hanger.
- coauthored — one of two or more joint authors.
- cocked hat — A cocked hat is a hat with three corners that used to be worn with some uniforms.
- codeswitch — Alternative form of code-switch.
- coelacanth — a primitive marine bony fish of the genus Latimeria (subclass Crossopterygii), having fleshy limblike pectoral fins and occurring off the coast of E Africa: thought to be extinct until a living specimen was discovered in 1938
- cohabitate — cohabit.
- coherently — logically connected; consistent: a coherent argument.
- cohibitive — restrictive
- colchester — a town in E England, in NE Essex; university (1964). Pop: 104 390 (2001)
- commandeth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of command.
- commendeth — Archaic third-person singular form of commend.
- committeth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of commit.
- compelleth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of compel.
- consisteth — Archaic third-person singular form of consist.
- containeth — Archaic third-person singular form of contain.
- continueth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of continue.
- contrahent — entering into an agreement or contract
- coolie hat — a wide, conical straw hat worn especially as a shield against the sun.
- coquettish — If you describe a woman as coquettish, you mean she acts in a playful way that is intended to make men find her attractive.
- 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
- cornetfish — any of several slender fishes of the family Fistulariidae, of tropical seas, having an elongated snout and bony plates instead of scales.
- 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.
- couchettes — Plural form of couchette.
- court shoe — Court shoes are women's shoes that do not cover the top part of the foot and are usually made of plain leather with no design.
- courthouse — A courthouse is a building in which a court of law meets.
- cowcatcher — a metal frame on the front of a locomotive to clear the track of animals or other obstructions