10-letter words containing n, o, t, h, a
- binghamton — city in SC N.Y., on the Susquehanna River: pop. 47,000
- bioethanol — a biofuel based on alcohol which may be combined with petrol for use in vehicles
- blackthorn — a thorny Eurasian rosaceous shrub, Prunus spinosa, with black twigs, white flowers, and small sour plumlike fruits
- bone earth — bone ash.
- bonnethead — a hammerhead shark, Sphyrna tiburo, found in shallow waters from Brazil to Massachusetts, having a spade-shaped head.
- branch out — If a person or an organization branches out, they do something that is different from their normal activities or work.
- cartoonish — like a cartoon, esp in being one-dimensional, brightly coloured, or exaggerated
- cashpoints — Plural form of cashpoint.
- cataphonic — catacoustic or of or relating to cataphonics
- catholicon — a remedy for all ills; panacea
- cfortran.h — (library) A transparent, machine independent interface between C and Fortran routines and global data, developed by Burkhard Burow at CERN. It provides macros which allow the C preprocessor to translate a simple description of a C (Fortran) routine or global data into a Fortran (C) interface. Version 2.6 runs on VAX/VMS/Ultrix, DECstation, Silicon Graphics, IBM RS/6000, Sun, Cray, Apollo, HP9000, LynxOS, f2c, NAG f90. cfortran.h was reviewed in RS/Magazine November 1992 and a user's experiences with cfortran.h are described in the Jan 93 issue of Computers in Physics.
- chadderton — a town in NW England, in Oldham unitary authority, in Greater Manchester. Pop: 33 001 (2001)
- chain shot — cannon shot comprising two balls or half balls joined by a chain, much used formerly, esp in naval warfare to destroy rigging
- chalkstone — tophus
- chardonnet — (Louis Marie) Hilaire Bernigaud (ilɛr bɛrniɡo), Comte de. 1839–1924, French chemist and industrialist who produced rayon, the first artificial fibre
- charleston — The Charleston is a lively dance that was popular in the 1920s.
- chatterton — Thomas. 1752–70, British poet; author of spurious medieval verse and prose: he committed suicide at the age of 17
- chemonasty — the nastic movement of a plant in response to a chemical stimulus
- 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
- chilognath — any member of the diplopod subclass Chilognatha, including millipedes having exoskeletons heavily sclerotized with calcium carbonate.
- 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
- choanocyte — any of the flagellated cells in sponges that maintain a flow of water through the body. A collar of protoplasm surrounds the base of the flagellum
- chromatins — Plural form of chromatin.
- chrononaut — (science fiction, dated) A time-traveller.
- coathanger — Alternative spelling of coat hanger.
- 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
- cohabitant — a person living together with another or others
- cohabiting — to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
- cohobating — Present participle of cohobate.
- cohobation — (dated, chemistry) The boiling of a material in a liquid with the repeated return of the distillate.
- commandeth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of command.
- condylarth — any of the primitive ungulate mammals of the extinct order Condylarthra, from the Paleocene and Eocene epochs, having a slender body, low-crowned teeth, and five-toed feet, each toe ending in a small hoof.
- containeth — Archaic third-person singular form of contain.
- contrahent — entering into an agreement or contract
- corinthian — of, characteristic of, or relating to Corinth
- cornstarch — Cornstarch is the same as cornflour.
- court hand — a style of handwriting formerly used in English law courts
- ctenophora — the phylum comprising the comb jellies.
- cyanopathy — (medicine) A disease in which the surface of the body turns blue, usually arising from a malformation of the heart, which causes an imperfect arterialization of the blood.
- cyanophyta — a phylum, or subkingdom, in the kingdom Monera, comprising the blue-green algae.
- cyanophyte — a former name for a cyanobacterium
- decathlons — Plural form of decathlon.
- 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
- dithionate — a salt of dithionic acid.
- ditrochean — consisting of two trochees
- drunkathon — a session in which excessive quantities of alcohol are consumed
- dutchwoman — a female native or inhabitant of the Netherlands; a woman of Dutch ancestry.