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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.
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