10-letter words containing o, n, h, a
- astonishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of astonish.
- asynchrony — a lack of synchronism or coincidence in time.
- at home in — familiar or conversant with
- atrophying — Also, atrophia [uh-troh-fee-uh] /əˈtroʊ fi ə/ (Show IPA). Pathology. a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage.
- autochthon — one of the earliest known inhabitants of any country; aboriginal
- avouchment — The act of avouching.
- azomethine — (chemistry) any of a class of organic compounds of general formula RN=CR2.
- babylonish — Babylonian.
- bath stone — a kind of limestone used as a building material, esp at Bath in England
- be hard on — to treat severely; be harsh toward
- beachfront — A beachfront house, café, shop, or hotel is situated on or by a beach.
- beforehand — If you do something beforehand, you do it earlier than a particular event.
- binghamton — city in SC N.Y., on the Susquehanna River: pop. 47,000
- bingo hall — a building owned by a commercial company in which bingo is played by large numbers of people
- 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
- bon marche — a bargain.
- bone china — Bone china is a kind of thin china that contains powdered bone.
- bone earth — bone ash.
- boneheaded — a foolish or stupid person; blockhead.
- boneshaker — an early type of bicycle having solid tyres and no springs
- bonnethead — a hammerhead shark, Sphyrna tiburo, found in shallow waters from Brazil to Massachusetts, having a spade-shaped head.
- branch off — A road or path that branches off from another one starts from it and goes in a slightly different direction. If you branch off somewhere, you change the direction in which you are going.
- branch out — If a person or an organization branches out, they do something that is different from their normal activities or work.
- brno chair — an armchair designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1930, having a cantilevered frame of chromium-plated or stainless steel composed of two interlocking parts, one forming the legs and arms and the other the seat and back frame, with the back and seat lightly upholstered and usually covered with leather.
- brookhaven — a town in SW Mississippi.
- cabin hook — a hook and eye for fastening a cabinet door or the like.
- cacophonic — Discordant.
- 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
- capnophile — (biology) A microorganism that requires or grows best in presence of high concentrations of carbon dioxide.
- cardphones — Plural form of cardphone.
- carhopping — the practice of serving customers at a drive-in restaurant
- cartoonish — like a cartoon, esp in being one-dimensional, brightly coloured, or exaggerated
- cash bonus — an extra amount of money given to someone for doing something good, over and above the amount that is normally paid for that achievement
- cash in on — to get profit or profitable use from
- cash money — cash, as distinguished from a check or money order.
- cashpoints — Plural form of cashpoint.
- cataphonic — catacoustic or of or relating to cataphonics
- catholicon — a remedy for all ills; panacea
- cavaquinho — A small, four-stringed guitar resembling a ukulele, popular in Brazil and Portugal.
- cellophane — Cellophane is a thin, transparent material that is used to wrap things.
- 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)
- 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
- chain-work — any decorative product, handiwork, etc., in which parts are looped or woven together, like the links of a chain.
- chairborne — having an administrative or desk job rather than a more active one
- chairbound — unable to walk; dependent on a wheelchair for mobility