10-letter words containing r, h, o, e
- 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
- dairyhouse — A farm building operating as a dairy.
- dark horse — If you describe someone as a dark horse, you mean that people know very little about them, although they may have recently had success or may be about to have success.
- dawn horse — eohippus.
- dead horse — something that has ceased to be useful or relevant.
- death roll — a list of the people killed in a war or disaster
- debtholder — (finance) An owner of a financial obligation of another party.
- decahedron — a solid figure having ten plane faces
- deepthroat — To perform fellatio or irrumation on a man so that his entire penis is inside the mouth.
- deerhounds — Plural form of deerhound.
- dehydrator — a person or thing that dehydrates.
- deinothere — a member of the genus Deinotherium
- 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.
- demolisher — One who demolishes.
- den mother — a woman who supervises meetings of a den of Cub Scouts
- dendrophis — a genus of harmless tree-dwelling snake, of which varieties can be found in South America, India, Australia, Africa, and North America
- dermopathy — Disease of the skin.
- dermotherm — an instrument for measuring skin temperature.
- deschooler — an advocate of deschooling
- destroyeth — Archaic third-person singular form of destroy.
- dethroning — Present participle of dethrone.
- devonshire — 8th Duke of, title of Spencer Compton Cavendish. 1833–1908, British politician, also known (1858–91) as Lord Hartington. He led the Liberal Party (1874–80) and left it to found the Liberal Unionist Party (1886)
- diaphorase — a flavoprotein enzyme operating in mitochondria, acting as a catalyst in the process of dye reduction or oxidation
- diarrhoeal — Standard spelling of diarrheal.
- 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.
- dichromate — any salt or ester of dichromic acid. Dichromate salts contain the ion Cr2O72–
- dihydrogen — (chemistry) The divalent radical formed from two separate hydrogen atoms or ions.