10-letter words containing p, a, c, h
- card-punch — Also, key punch. Also called card punch. a machine, operated by a keyboard, for coding information by punching holes in cards or paper tape in specified patterns.
- cardphones — Plural form of cardphone.
- cardsharps — Plural form of cardsharp.
- careership — An approach to career-related decision-making, combining rationality, interactions with others, and responses to sometimes unpredictable events.
- cargo ship — a ship carrying cargo
- carhopping — the practice of serving customers at a drive-in restaurant
- carphology — the action of grasping at imaginary objects or plucking at one's bed linen, a characteristic of people affected by delirium
- carpophore — the central column surrounded by carpels in such flowers as the geranium
- cartograph — the production of maps, including construction of projections, design, compilation, drafting, and reproduction.
- cartophile — a cartophilist
- cartophily — the hobby of collecting cigarette cards
- cash price — discount
- cash prize — a prize in a competition that takes the form of money
- cashpoints — Plural form of cashpoint.
- cat-harpin — any of a number of short ropes or rods for gathering in shrouds near their tops.
- cataphasia — a speech disorder in which a person constantly repeats a word or phrase.
- cataphasis — Rhetoric. the use of affirmative statements to discuss a subject; affirmation through positive statements.
- cataphatic — (theology) Pertaining to the expression of God in terms of what God is, rather than (apophatic) in terms of what God is not.
- cataphonic — catacoustic or of or relating to cataphonics
- cataphoric — the use of a word or phrase to refer to a following word or group of words, as the use of the phrase as follows.
- cataphract — a defensive armour, often made of link mail, used for the entire body
- catch crop — a quick-growing crop planted between two regular crops grown in consecutive seasons, or between two rows of regular crops in the same season
- catch-ups' — an effort to reach or pass a norm, especially after a period of delay: After the slowdown there was a catch-up in production.
- catchpenny — designed to have instant appeal, esp in order to sell quickly and easily without regard for quality
- cathepsins — Plural form of cathepsin.
- cattleship — a large vessel for the transportation of livestock.
- cellophane — Cellophane is a thin, transparent material that is used to wrap things.
- cephalalgy — Dated form of cephalalgia.
- cephalexin — a cephalosporin antibiotic prescribed for mild infections of the skin, ears, throat, lungs, or urinary tract
- cephalitis — encephalitis.
- 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)
- cephalopod — any marine mollusc of the class Cephalopoda, characterized by well-developed head and eyes and a ring of sucker-bearing tentacles. The group also includes the octopuses, squids, cuttlefish, and pearly nautilus
- cerography — the art of engraving on a waxed plate on which a printing surface is created by electrotyping
- chain pump — a pump consisting of buckets, plates, or the like, rising upon a chain within a cylinder for raising liquids entering the cylinder at the bottom.
- chainplate — a metal plate on the side of a vessel, to which the shrouds are attached
- chamberpot — a vessel for urine, used in bedrooms
- champagnes — Plural form of champagne.
- champaigne — Philippe de (filip də). 1602–74, French painter, born in Brussels: noted particularly for his portraits and historical and religious scenes
- champignon — any of various agaricaceous edible mushrooms, esp Marasmius oreades and the meadow mushroom
- championed — a person who has defeated all opponents in a competition or series of competitions, so as to hold first place: the heavyweight boxing champion.
- channel op — (messaging) /chan'l op/ (Or "op", "chan op", "chop") Someone who is endowed with privileges on a particular IRC channel. These privileges include the right to kick users, to change various status bits and to make others into CHOPs. The full form, "channel operator", is almost never used.
- chap stick — lip balm
- chaparajos — (in Mexico) chaps.
- chaparejos — chaps1
- chaparrals — Plural form of chaparral.
- chapatties — Plural form of chapatty.
- chaperoned — a person, usually a married or older woman, who, for propriety, accompanies a young unmarried woman in public or who attends a party of young unmarried men and women.
- chaperones — Plural form of chaperone.
- chaperonin — A protein that aids the assembly and folding of other protein molecules in living cells.
- chapfallen — dejected; downhearted; crestfallen