10-letter words containing h, p, c
- chip creep — (hardware) Gradual loosening of an integrated circuit ("chip") in its socket as a result of expansion and contraction during the normal heating and cooling cycles of an electronic system, combined with vibration, e.g. due to cooling fans. The chip can loosen to the point that poor electrical contact between chip and socket reduces the signal quality, causing failure. Pushing chips back into their sockets can cure such symptoms temporarily. Permanent solutions include soldering chips directly to the PCB and clipping the component into the socket (as on some in-line memory modules). The same phenomenon can affect anything plugged into a socket but not held securely in place, e.g. a circuit board plugged into an edge connector on a motherboard or backplane can suffer "card creep".
- chip wagon — a small van in which chips are cooked and sold
- chip-based — (of electronic equipment or components) using or incorporating microchips
- chipmunked — Simple past tense and past participle of chipmunk.
- chippering — Present participle of chipper.
- chirograph — an indenture
- chirpiness — The state or quality of being chirpy.
- chirruping — Present participle of chirrup.
- 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.
- chrysippus — 280–209? b.c, Greek Stoic philosopher.
- chrysophan — a glucoside that is bitter to the taste and yellow in colour
- chupacabra — An animal said to exist in parts of Latin America, where it supposedly attacks animals, especially goats.
- cibophobia — The fear of, or aversion to, eating or food.
- ciliophora — a phylum of protozoa in the kingdom Protista, comprising the ciliates.
- cinephiles — Plural form of cinephile.
- ciphertext — encrypted text
- cladophyll — a green, flattened branch arising from the axil of a leaf, with the shape and functions of a foliage leaf
- clientship — the state of being a client
- 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.