10-letter words containing k, h
- chilliwack — city in S British Columbia, Canada: pop. 60,000
- china bark — cinchona (sense 2)
- china silk — a lightweight silk fabric constructed in plain weave, often used for linings, blouses, slips, etc.
- chipmunked — Simple past tense and past participle of chipmunk.
- chock-full — Something that is chock-full is completely full.
- chockstone — a stone securely jammed in a crack. It may vary in size from a pebble to a large boulder
- choke back — If you choke back tears or a strong emotion, you force yourself not to show your emotion.
- choke coil — an inductor used to limit or suppress alternating current without stopping direct current
- choke down — to swallow with difficulty
- choke-full — chock-full.
- choke-hold — a restraining hold in which one person encircles the neck of another in a viselike grip with the arm, usually approaching from behind: The suspect was put in a chokehold and was gasping for breath.
- chokeberry — any of various North American rosaceous shrubs of the genus Aronia
- chokeholds — Plural form of chokehold.
- chokepoint — a place of greatest congestion and often hazard; bottleneck.
- chop block — butcher-block.
- 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
- chowkidars — Plural form of chowkidar.
- christlike — resembling or showing the spirit of Jesus Christ
- chroma key — an electronic special-effects system for combining a desired background with live foreground action.
- chubb lock — a type of lock with a device that sets the bolt immovably if the lock is picked
- chubsucker — any of several stout suckers of the genus Erimyzon, inhabiting sluggish streams, backwaters, and lakes of the central and eastern U.S.
- chuck away — If you chuck something away, you throw it away or waste it.
- chuck-full — chock-full
- chuckholes — Plural form of chuckhole.
- chuckwagon — A wagon equipped with food and cooking utensils, as on a ranch or in a lumber camp.
- chuckwalla — a lizard, Sauromalus obesus, that has an inflatable body and inhabits desert regions of the southwestern US: family Iguanidae (iguanas)
- chunkiness — The state of being chunky.
- church key — a device with a triangular point at one end for making holes in the tops of cans
- churchlike — resembling or appropriate to a church: churchlike silence.
- clock-hour — a full 60-minute period, as of class instruction or therapeutic consultation. Compare hour (def 11).
- cloth-like — resembling cloth
- coach park — an area reserved for parking coaches
- coachmaker — A coachbuilder.
- 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.
- cockchafer — any of various Old World scarabaeid beetles, esp Melolontha melolontha of Europe, whose larvae feed on crops and grasses
- cocked hat — A cocked hat is a hat with three corners that used to be worn with some uniforms.
- cockfights — Plural form of cockfight.
- cockhorses — Plural form of cockhorse.
- cook-chill — a method of food preparation used by caterers, in which cooked dishes are chilled rapidly and reheated as required
- corn shock — a stack or bundle of bound or unbound corn piled upright for curing or drying
- corn shuck — the husk of an ear of maize
- cornhusker — a person or machine that strips cornhusks from ears of maize
- crackheads — Plural form of crackhead.
- crackhouse — a place where cocaine in the form of crack is bought, sold, and smoked.
- crankshaft — A crankshaft is the main shaft of an internal combustion engine.
- crosscheck — to verify (a fact, report, etc) by considering conflicting opinions or consulting other sources
- cruikshank — George. 1792–1878, English illustrator and caricaturist
- cypherpunk — A person who uses encryption when accessing a computer network in order to ensure privacy, especially from government authorities.
- dark horse — If you describe someone as a dark horse, you mean that people know very little about them, although they may have recently had success or may be about to have success.
- death mask — A death mask is a model of someone's face, which is made from a mould that was taken of their face soon after they died.