10-letter words containing r, e, c, h, o
- churchgoer — A churchgoer is a person who goes to church regularly.
- chyloderma — (medicine) swelling of the scrotum resulting from chronic lymphatic obstruction.
- cibachrome — the old name for the Ilfochrome photographic printing process
- clodhopper — a clumsy person; lout
- cloth ears — a deaf person
- cnidophore — a part or organ bearing cnidoblasts.
- coachmaker — A coachbuilder.
- coalheaver — One who feeds coal into a furnace.
- coathanger — Alternative spelling of coat hanger.
- coauthored — one of two or more joint authors.
- cochlearia — Plural form of cochlearium.
- cockchafer — any of various Old World scarabaeid beetles, esp Melolontha melolontha of Europe, whose larvae feed on crops and grasses
- cockhorses — Plural form of cockhorse.
- coheirship — The state of being a coheir.
- coherences — Plural form of coherence.
- coherently — logically connected; consistent: a coherent argument.
- colchester — a town in E England, in NE Essex; university (1964). Pop: 104 390 (2001)
- coleorhiza — a protective sheath around the radicle in grasses
- collophore — a ventral tubelike structure on the abdomen of a springtail.
- comanchero — (in 19th-century New Mexico) a trader who traded with the Native American nomadic tribes such as the Comanche, Navajo, and Apache
- comprehend — If you cannot comprehend something, you cannot understand it.
- contrahent — entering into an agreement or contract
- copperhead — a venomous reddish-brown snake, Agkistrodon contortrix, of the eastern US: family Crotalidae (pit vipers)
- copyholder — one who reads aloud from the copy as the proof corrector follows the reading in the proof
- 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
- cornetfish — any of several slender fishes of the family Fistulariidae, of tropical seas, having an elongated snout and bony plates instead of scales.
- cornhusker — a person or machine that strips cornhusks from ears of maize
- coryphaeus — (in ancient Greek drama) the leader of the chorus
- cosherings — (in Ireland) visits to tenants' houses by a chief and his followers, where they would expect to be fed and accommodated
- cost-share — to share the cost of: to cost-share a joint venture.
- cotehardie — (in the Middle Ages) a close-fitting outer garment with long sleeves, hip-length for men and full-length for women, often laced or buttoned down the front or back.
- court shoe — Court shoes are women's shoes that do not cover the top part of the foot and are usually made of plain leather with no design.
- courthouse — A courthouse is a building in which a court of law meets.
- cowcatcher — a metal frame on the front of a locomotive to clear the track of animals or other obstructions
- cowpuncher — cowboy
- crackhouse — a place where cocaine in the form of crack is bought, sold, and smoked.
- crocheting — Present participle of crochet.
- crosscheck — to verify (a fact, report, etc) by considering conflicting opinions or consulting other sources
- crotcheted — short-tempered
- crotchless — (of a garment) having a hole cut so as to leave the genitals uncovered.
- crush zone — The crush zone is the part of a vehicle's bodywork that is designed to absorb the energy in a crash, reducing the amount that is felt by passengers inside the vehicle.
- cryosphere — All those areas of the Earth where the surface is frozen.
- 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
- cup-holder — a device for holding a cup upright, esp in a motor vehicle
- cytochrome — any of a group of naturally occurring compounds, consisting of iron, a protein, and a porphyrin, that are important in cell oxidation-reduction reactions
- decahedron — a solid figure having ten plane faces
- deschooler — an advocate of deschooling
- dichloride — a compound in which two atoms of chlorine are combined with another atom or group
- dichlorine — (chemistry, in combination) Two atoms of chlorine in a molecule.