10-letter words containing r, h, u
- chaucerian — of, relating to, or characteristic of the writings of Geoffrey Chaucer
- chaudfroid — a sweet or savoury jellied sauce used to coat cold meat, chicken, etc
- chauffeurs — Plural form of chauffeur.
- cheerfully — full of cheer; in good spirits: a cheerful person.
- chequering — Present participle of chequer.
- cherubfish — a brilliantly colored butterflyfish, Centropyge argi, found in the West Indies: kept in home aquariums.
- cherubical — Cherubic.
- cherubicon — the hymn sung during the Great Entrance by the choir, which represents the cherubim.
- cherublike — a celestial being. Gen. 3:24; Ezek. 1, 10.
- chi-square — an inferential statistic common in survey research
- chiricahua — a member of an Apache Indian group, formerly located in the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico, now living primarily in Oklahoma and New Mexico.
- chirruping — Present participle of chirrup.
- chirurgeon — surgeon
- chirurgery — surgery.
- chirurgion — Alternative form of chirurgeon; archaic spelling of surgeon.
- chivalrous — A chivalrous man is polite, kind, and unselfish, especially towards women.
- chondrules — Plural form of chondrule.
- choreutics — a system that analyzes form in movement, developed by Rudolf von Laban (1879–1958), Hungarian choreographer and dance theorist.
- choriambus — choriamb.
- chorus boy — a male singer or dancer of the chorus of a musical comedy, vaudeville show, etc.
- choucroute — a dish, resembling sauerkraut, that consists of cabbage that has been preserved by soaking in pickle
- chromidium — a length or particle of chromatin in cell cytoplasm
- chrononaut — (science fiction, dated) A time-traveller.
- chrysippus — 280–209? b.c, Greek Stoic philosopher.
- chubsucker — any of several stout suckers of the genus Erimyzon, inhabiting sluggish streams, backwaters, and lakes of the central and eastern U.S.
- chundering — vomit.
- chunderous — nauseating
- chuntering — to grumble or grouse mildly or tediously.
- chupacabra — An animal said to exist in parts of Latin America, where it supposedly attacks animals, especially goats.
- church key — a device with a triangular point at one end for making holes in the tops of cans
- churchgoer — A churchgoer is a person who goes to church regularly.
- churchless — (of a person) not belonging to a church
- churchlike — resembling or appropriate to a church: churchlike silence.
- churchward — in the direction of the church
- churchyard — A churchyard is an area of land around a church where dead people are buried.
- churlishly — In a churlish manner.
- churnalism — a type of journalism that relies on reusing existing material such as press releases and wire service reports instead of original research, esp as a result of an increased demand for news content
- chuttering — Present participle of chutter.
- clock-hour — a full 60-minute period, as of class instruction or therapeutic consultation. Compare hour (def 11).
- club chair — a large, heavily upholstered armchair, usually with a low back
- coauthored — one of two or more joint authors.
- colourwash — a coloured distemper
- corn shuck — the husk of an ear of maize
- cornhusker — a person or machine that strips cornhusks from ears of maize
- coryphaeus — (in ancient Greek drama) the leader of the chorus
- couch roll — the roll on which a wet web is transferred from the paper machine to the couch.
- couch-surf — to stay overnight in someone’s else’s home while traveling: He couch-surfed at the houses of strangers and friends.
- cough drop — a lozenge to relieve a cough
- countryish — similar to that which is typical of country music
- court hand — a style of handwriting formerly used in English law courts