10-letter words containing i, n, t, o, h
- check into — to stop or arrest the motion of suddenly or forcibly: He checked the horse at the edge of the cliff.
- checkpoint — A checkpoint is a place where traffic is stopped so that it can be checked.
- chevrotain — any small timid ruminant artiodactyl mammal of the genera Tragulus and Hyemoschus, of S and SE Asia: family Tragulidae. They resemble rodents, and the males have long tusklike upper canines
- chief town — a town or city that is the administrative centre of a region
- chilognath — any member of the diplopod subclass Chilognatha, including millipedes having exoskeletons heavily sclerotized with calcium carbonate.
- chimneypot — a short pipe on the top of a chimney, which increases the draught and directs the smoke upwards
- chitarrone — a large lute with a double neck in common use during the baroque period, esp in Italy
- chittagong — a port in E Bangladesh, on the Bay of Bengal: industrial centre. Pop: 4 171 000 (2005 est)
- chlorinate — to combine or treat (a substance) with chlorine
- chlorinity — the amount of chlorine present in water, esp sea-water
- chokepoint — a place of greatest congestion and often hazard; bottleneck.
- chondrites — Plural form of chondrite.
- chondritic — (geology) Of or pertaining to a chondrite.
- chondritis — a swelling and tenderness of cartilage
- chromatins — Plural form of chromatin.
- chronicity — constant; habitual; inveterate: a chronic liar.
- clothespin — A clothespin is the same as a clothes peg.
- cohabitant — a person living together with another or others
- cohabiting — to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
- cohibition — restraint
- cohobating — Present participle of cohobate.
- cohobation — (dated, chemistry) The boiling of a material in a liquid with the repeated return of the distillate.
- 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.
- corinthian — of, characteristic of, or relating to Corinth
- cornetfish — any of several slender fishes of the family Fistulariidae, of tropical seas, having an elongated snout and bony plates instead of scales.
- countryish — similar to that which is typical of country music
- crocheting — Present participle of crochet.
- deinothere — a member of the genus Deinotherium
- dentiphone — (dated) An instrument which, placed against the teeth, conveys sound to the auditory nerve; an audiphone.
- dethroning — Present participle of dethrone.
- dictaphone — a tape recorder designed for recording dictation and later reproducing it for typing
- diophantus — 3rd century ad, Greek mathematician, noted for his treatise on the theory of numbers, Arithmetica
- diphthongs — Phonetics. an unsegmentable, gliding speech sound varying continuously in phonetic quality but held to be a single sound or phoneme and identified by its apparent beginning and ending sound, as the oi- sound of toy or boil.
- diphyodont — having two successive sets of teeth, as most mammals.
- dishonesty — lack of honesty; a disposition to lie, cheat, or steal.
- dithionate — a salt of dithionic acid.
- dithionite — any salt of dithionous acid
- dithionous — as in dithionous acid
- ditrochean — consisting of two trochees
- do-nothing — a person who chooses to do nothing; a lazy or worthless person.
- docentship — privatdocent.
- downlights — Plural form of downlight.
- dystrophin — a protein, the absence of which is believed to cause muscular dystrophy
- eighteenmo — Octodecimo (as a paper size in printing).
- endolithic — Within rock.
- endophytic — Of or relating to an endophyte.
- endothecia — Plural form of endothecium.
- endothelia — Plural form of endothelium.