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10-letter words containing h, p, c

  • camphorate — to apply, treat with, or impregnate with camphor
  • can't help — If you say you can't help thinking something, you are expressing your opinion in an indirect way, often because you think it seems rude.
  • canephoros — in ancient Greece, any of the maidens who carried on her head a basket holding the sacred things used at feasts
  • canophilia — the love of dogs
  • canophobia — an abnormal fear of dogs
  • cape dutch — (in South Africa) a distinctive style of furniture or architecture
  • cape wrath — a promontory at the NW extremity of the Scottish mainland
  • cape-wrath — Cape, a high promontory in NW Scotland: most NW point on mainland.
  • capnophile — (biology) A microorganism that requires or grows best in presence of high concentrations of carbon dioxide.
  • card punch — keypunch (def 1).
  • card-punch — Also, key punch. Also called card punch. a machine, operated by a keyboard, for coding information by punching holes in cards or paper tape in specified patterns.
  • cardphones — Plural form of cardphone.
  • cardsharps — Plural form of cardsharp.
  • careership — An approach to career-related decision-making, combining rationality, interactions with others, and responses to sometimes unpredictable events.
  • cargo ship — a ship carrying cargo
  • carhopping — the practice of serving customers at a drive-in restaurant
  • carphology — the action of grasping at imaginary objects or plucking at one's bed linen, a characteristic of people affected by delirium
  • carpophore — the central column surrounded by carpels in such flowers as the geranium
  • cartograph — the production of maps, including construction of projections, design, compilation, drafting, and reproduction.
  • cartophile — a cartophilist
  • cartophily — the hobby of collecting cigarette cards
  • cash price — discount
  • cash prize — a prize in a competition that takes the form of money
  • cashpoints — Plural form of cashpoint.
  • cat-harpin — any of a number of short ropes or rods for gathering in shrouds near their tops.
  • cataphasia — a speech disorder in which a person constantly repeats a word or phrase.
  • cataphasis — Rhetoric. the use of affirmative statements to discuss a subject; affirmation through positive statements.
  • cataphatic — (theology) Pertaining to the expression of God in terms of what God is, rather than (apophatic) in terms of what God is not.
  • 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.
  • cataphract — a defensive armour, often made of link mail, used for the entire body
  • 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-ups' — an effort to reach or pass a norm, especially after a period of delay: After the slowdown there was a catch-up in production.
  • catchpenny — designed to have instant appeal, esp in order to sell quickly and easily without regard for quality
  • cathepsins — Plural form of cathepsin.
  • cattleship — a large vessel for the transportation of livestock.
  • cell phone — a mobile phone
  • cellophane — Cellophane is a thin, transparent material that is used to wrap things.
  • censorship — Censorship is the censoring of books, plays, films, or reports, especially by government officials, because they are considered immoral or secret in some way.
  • cephalalgy — Dated form of cephalalgia.
  • cephalexin — a cephalosporin antibiotic prescribed for mild infections of the skin, ears, throat, lungs, or urinary tract
  • cephalitis — encephalitis.
  • cephalonia — a mountainous island in the Ionian Sea, the largest of the Ionian Islands, off the W coast of Greece. Pop: 36 404 (2001). Area: 935 sq km (365 sq miles)
  • cephalopod — any marine mollusc of the class Cephalopoda, characterized by well-developed head and eyes and a ring of sucker-bearing tentacles. The group also includes the octopuses, squids, cuttlefish, and pearly nautilus
  • cerography — the art of engraving on a waxed plate on which a printing surface is created by electrotyping
  • chain pump — a pump consisting of buckets, plates, or the like, rising upon a chain within a cylinder for raising liquids entering the cylinder at the bottom.
  • chainplate — a metal plate on the side of a vessel, to which the shrouds are attached
  • chamberpot — a vessel for urine, used in bedrooms
  • champagnes — Plural form of champagne.
  • champaigne — Philippe de (filip də). 1602–74, French painter, born in Brussels: noted particularly for his portraits and historical and religious scenes
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