10-letter words containing p, h, o, n
- cell phone — a mobile phone
- cellophane — Cellophane is a thin, transparent material that is used to wrap things.
- censorship — Censorship is the censoring of books, plays, films, or reports, especially by government officials, because they are considered immoral or secret in some way.
- 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)
- 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.
- 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.
- checkpoint — A checkpoint is a place where traffic is stopped so that it can be checked.
- chickenpox — Chickenpox is a disease which gives you a high temperature and red spots that itch.
- chimneypot — a short pipe on the top of a chimney, which increases the draught and directs the smoke upwards
- chip wagon — a small van in which chips are cooked and sold
- chokepoint — a place of greatest congestion and often hazard; bottleneck.
- chopfallen — chapfallen
- choppiness — (of the sea, a lake, etc.) forming short, irregular, broken waves.
- chronopher — an instrument for transmitting time signals electronically.
- chrysophan — a glucoside that is bitter to the taste and yellow in colour
- clinograph — (in mining, construction, etc.) an instrument that records the deviation of boreholes or the like from the vertical.
- clomiphene — a drug that stimulates the production of egg cells in the ovary: used to treat infertility in women
- clothespin — A clothespin is the same as a clothes peg.
- cnidophore — a part or organ bearing cnidoblasts.
- cochampion — a joint champion
- collophane — a massive, cryptocrystalline variety of apatite that is the principal component of phosphate rock and fossil bone.
- comprehend — If you cannot comprehend something, you cannot understand it.
- consulship — an official appointed by the government of one country to look after its commercial interests and the welfare of its citizens in another country.
- 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)
- coryphodon — a primitive hoofed mammal of the extinct genus Coryphodon, of the early Eocene Epoch, having a long, thickset body, short legs, and five-toed feet, each toe ending in a small hoof.
- cousinship — Also called first cousin, full cousin. the son or daughter of an uncle or aunt. See also second cousin, removed (def 2).
- cowpuncher — cowboy
- criosphinx — a sphinx with the head of a ram instead of a human.
- ctenophora — the phylum comprising the comb jellies.
- ctenophore — any marine invertebrate of the phylum Ctenophora, including the sea gooseberry and Venus's-girdle, whose body bears eight rows of fused cilia, for locomotion
- cyanopathy — (medicine) A disease in which the surface of the body turns blue, usually arising from a malformation of the heart, which causes an imperfect arterialization of the blood.
- cyanophyta — a phylum, or subkingdom, in the kingdom Monera, comprising the blue-green algae.
- cyanophyte — a former name for a cyanobacterium
- cymophenol — (organic compound) synonym of carvacrol.
- cynophilia — a love of dogs
- cynophobia — an irrational fear of dogs
- dauphinois — (of potatoes or other vegetables) sliced and cooked in milk, typically with a topping of cheese.
- deaconship — (in hierarchical churches) a member of the clerical order next below that of a priest.
- delphinoid — a member of the genus Delphinoidea, of which dolphins and porpoises are members
- dendrophis — a genus of harmless tree-dwelling snake, of which varieties can be found in South America, India, Australia, Africa, and North America
- dentiphone — (dated) An instrument which, placed against the teeth, conveys sound to the auditory nerve; an audiphone.
- diaphanous — Diaphanous cloth is very thin and almost transparent.
- diaphoneme — (linguistics) An abstract phonological unit that represents collectively the dialectal variants of a phoneme.
- diaphonics — The doctrine of refracted sound; diacoustics.
- diaphonous — Misspelling of diaphanous.
- dictaphone — a tape recorder designed for recording dictation and later reproducing it for typing