10-letter words containing p, h, a, e
- cheap shot — A cheap shot is a comment someone makes which you think is unfair or unkind.
- cheap-jack — a person who sells cheap and shoddy goods
- cheap-rate — charged at a lower rate
- cheapening — Present participle of cheapen.
- cheapernet — (networking) (Or "thinnet") A colloquial term for thin-wire Ethernet (10base2) that uses RG58 coaxial cable instead of the full-spec "Yellow Cable".
- cheapishly — in a fairly cheap manner
- cheapjacks — Plural form of cheapjack.
- cheapskate — If you say that someone is a cheapskate, you think that they are mean and do not like spending money.
- chesapeake — city in SE Va., at the base of Chesapeake Bay: pop. 199,000
- chest pass — a pass in which the ball is quickly propelled from the chest by the hands and arms.
- chimpanzee — A chimpanzee is a kind of small African ape.
- chip-based — (of electronic equipment or components) using or incorporating microchips
- chopfallen — chapfallen
- chromatype — a procedure in photography that uses photographic paper that is made reactive to light by the use of a salt of chromium
- collophane — a massive, cryptocrystalline variety of apatite that is the principal component of phosphate rock and fossil bone.
- copenhagen — the capital of Denmark, a port on Zealand and the Amager Islands on a site inhabited for some 6000 years: exports chiefly agricultural products; iron and steel works; university (1479). Pop: 501 664 (2004 est)
- copperhead — a venomous reddish-brown snake, Agkistrodon contortrix, of the eastern US: family Crotalidae (pit vipers)
- coryphaeus — (in ancient Greek drama) the leader of the chorus
- crepe hair — artificial hair, usually plaited and made of wool or vegetable fibre, used in theatrical make-up
- ctenophora — the phylum comprising the comb jellies.
- curateship — the office or position of a curate
- cyanophyte — a former name for a cyanobacterium
- cycle path — A cycle path is a special path on which people can travel by bicycle separately from motor vehicles.
- dall sheep — a wild sheep (Ovis dalli) with white hair and long spiral horns, living in the mountains of NW North America
- dauphiness — dauphine.
- deaconship — (in hierarchical churches) a member of the clerical order next below that of a priest.
- dealership — A dealership is a company that sells cars, usually for one car company.
- death camp — A death camp is a place where prisoners are kept, especially during a war, and where many of them die or are killed.
- death trap — If you say that a place or vehicle is a death trap, you mean it is in such bad condition that it might cause someone's death.
- deathplace — the place at which a person dies: Lincoln is buried in Illinois, but his deathplace was Washington, D.C.
- deathtraps — Plural form of deathtrap.
- deemphasis — Alternative spelling of de-emphasis.
- deepthroat — To perform fellatio or irrumation on a man so that his entire penis is inside the mouth.
- demography — Demography is the study of the changes in numbers of births, deaths, marriages, and cases of disease in a community over a period of time.
- dermopathy — Disease of the skin.
- despatched — Simple past tense and past participle of despatch.
- despatcher — Alternative form of dispatcher.
- despatches — Plural form of despatch.
- diaphoneme — (linguistics) An abstract phonological unit that represents collectively the dialectal variants of a phoneme.
- diaphorase — a flavoprotein enzyme operating in mitochondria, acting as a catalyst in the process of dye reduction or oxidation
- diaphyseal — the shaft of a long bone.
- dictaphone — a tape recorder designed for recording dictation and later reproducing it for typing
- didelphian — of or relating to an animal in the Didelphia subclass of mammals
- diphenamid — a selective preemergence herbicide, C 16 H 17 ON, used to control weed growth on lawns and various croplands.
- diphtheria — a febrile, infectious disease caused by the bacillus Corynebacterium diphtheriae, and characterized by the formation of a false membrane in the air passages, especially the throat.
- diplophase — the diploid part of an organism's life cycle.
- dirt cheap — very inexpensive: The house may need a lot of work, but it was dirt-cheap.
- dirt-cheap — very inexpensive: The house may need a lot of work, but it was dirt-cheap.
- dispatched — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- dispatcher — a person who dispatches.