10-letter words containing o, s, i
- chemokines — Plural form of chemokine.
- chemotaxis — the movement of a microorganism or cell in response to a chemical stimulus
- chicanismo — pride in one's heritage as a Mexican-American.
- childhoods — Plural form of childhood.
- chilomonas — a genus of flagellate algae comprising the chilomonads.
- china rose — a rosaceous shrub, Rosa chinensis (or R. indica), with red, pink, or white fragrant flowers: the ancestor of many cultivated roses
- chivalrous — A chivalrous man is polite, kind, and unselfish, especially towards women.
- chloralism — a medical condition created by prolonged use of chloral hydrate
- chloridise — to change into chloride
- choiceless — an act or instance of choosing; selection: Her choice of a computer was made after months of research. His parents were not happy with his choice of friends.
- choiceness — The condition of being choice.
- choirgirls — Plural form of choirgirl.
- choirstall — one of the benches for the choir of a church, cathedral, etc
- choliambus — a line of iambic meter with a spondee or trochee replacing the last foot.
- chondrites — Plural form of chondrite.
- chondritis — a swelling and tenderness of cartilage
- choosiness — The state of being choosy.
- 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
- choreutics — a system that analyzes form in movement, developed by Rudolf von Laban (1879–1958), Hungarian choreographer and dance theorist.
- choriambus — choriamb.
- choristers — Plural form of chorister.
- chorrillos — a city in W central Peru.
- chowkidars — Plural form of chowkidar.
- christhood — the state of being the Christ, the anointed one of God
- christophe — Henri (ɑ̃ri). 1767–1820, Haitian revolutionary leader; king of Haiti (1811–20)
- chromatics — the science of colour
- chromatids — Plural form of chromatid.
- chromatins — Plural form of chromatin.
- chromatism — chromatic aberration
- chronemics — The study of the communicative function of time.
- chronicles — either of two historical books (I and II Chronicles) of the Old Testament
- chrysolite — a yellowish-green gem derived chiefly from varieties of olivine
- chrysotile — a green, grey, or white fibrous mineral, a variety of serpentine, that is an important source of commercial asbestos. Formula: Mg3Si2O5(OH)4
- cienfuegos — a port in S Cuba, on Cienfuegos Bay. Pop: 147 000 (2005 est)
- cigarillos — Plural form of cigarillo.
- cinchonism — a condition resulting from an excessive dose of cinchona bark or its alkaloids, characterized chiefly by headache, ringing in the ears, and vomiting
- circuitous — A circuitous route is long and complicated rather than simple and direct.
- circumpose — to position around, or within an encircled place
- cis person — a person who is cisgender or cissexual.
- cismontane — on this (the writer's or speaker's) side of the mountains, esp the Alps
- cispontine — on the near side of the bridge
- cistaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Cistaceae, a family of shrubby or herbaceous plants that includes the rockroses
- citronalis — lemon verbena.
- click stop — a control device, as in a camera, that can be turned or rotated so that when it reaches a specific setting it engages with an audible click.
- clingstone — a fruit, such as certain peaches, in which the flesh tends to adhere to the stone
- clinkstone — a variety of phonolite that makes a metallic sound when struck
- clinostats — Plural form of clinostat.
- clipboards — Plural form of clipboard.
- clistocarp — cleistothecium.