10-letter words containing p, h, o, r
- 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.
- cerography — the art of engraving on a waxed plate on which a printing surface is created by electrotyping
- chamberpot — a vessel for urine, used in bedrooms
- chaparajos — (in Mexico) chaps.
- chaparejos — chaps1
- 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.
- charophyte — any green algae of the class Charophyceae (or group Charophyta), comprising the stoneworts.
- chemotroph — any organism that oxidizes inorganic or organic compounds as its principal energy source.
- childproof — Something that is childproof is designed in a way which ensures that children cannot harm it or be harmed by it.
- chirograph — an indenture
- chlorophyl — Alternative form of chlorophyll.
- chorograph — An instrument for constructing triangles in marine surveying, etc.
- choropleth — a symbol or marked and bounded area on a map denoting the distribution of some property
- christophe — Henri (ɑ̃ri). 1767–1820, Haitian revolutionary leader; king of Haiti (1811–20)
- chromatype — a procedure in photography that uses photographic paper that is made reactive to light by the use of a salt of chromium
- chromophil — a cell that takes a stain easily
- chronopher — an instrument for transmitting time signals electronically.
- chrysophan — a glucoside that is bitter to the taste and yellow in colour
- ciliophora — a phylum of protozoa in the kingdom Protista, comprising the ciliates.
- climograph — A chart that summarizes the climate of a place by superimposing a line graph representing average monthly temperature on a bar chart representing average monthly precipitation.
- clinograph — (in mining, construction, etc.) an instrument that records the deviation of boreholes or the like from the vertical.
- clodhopper — a clumsy person; lout
- cnidophore — a part or organ bearing cnidoblasts.
- coach park — an area reserved for parking coaches
- coach trip — any tour, journey, or voyage made by bus
- coheirship — The state of being a coheir.
- collagraph — An artistic print made through the printmaking process of collagraphy.
- collophore — a ventral tubelike structure on the abdomen of a springtail.
- comprehend — If you cannot comprehend something, you cannot understand it.
- copperhead — a venomous reddish-brown snake, Agkistrodon contortrix, of the eastern US: family Crotalidae (pit vipers)
- coprophagy — feeding on dung, as certain beetles.
- copyholder — one who reads aloud from the copy as the proof corrector follows the reading in the proof
- copyrights — Plural form of copyright.
- cormophyte — any of the Cormophyta, a major division (now obsolete) of plants having a stem, root, and leaves: includes the mosses, ferns, and seed plants
- coryphaeus — (in ancient Greek drama) the leader of the chorus
- 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.
- cough drop — a lozenge to relieve a cough
- courtships — Plural form of courtship.
- cowpuncher — cowboy
- crapshoots — Plural form of crapshoot.
- crashproof — (of a vehicle) resistant to damage and as safe as possible for the occupants in the event of a crash.
- criosphinx — a sphinx with the head of a ram instead of a human.
- crosspatch — a peevish bad-tempered person
- crushproof — unable to be crushed or creased
- cryophilic — able to thrive at low temperatures
- cryophorus — a glass tube with a bulb at each end which contains water and water vapour, used in physics to demonstrate freezing by evaporation
- cryosphere — All those areas of the Earth where the surface is frozen.
- ctenophora — the phylum comprising the comb jellies.