10-letter words containing t, h, u
- cape dutch — (in South Africa) a distinctive style of furniture or architecture
- carthusian — a member of an austere monastic order founded by Saint Bruno in 1084 near Grenoble, France
- cartouches — Plural form of cartouche.
- cash audit — an audit confined to cash transactions for a prescribed period, for the purpose of determining the amount of cash on hand or on deposit in a bank.
- cashew nut — edible nut
- catch-ups' — an effort to reach or pass a norm, especially after a period of delay: After the slowdown there was a catch-up in production.
- catechumen — a person, esp in the early Church, undergoing instruction prior to baptism
- catholicus — catholicos.
- ch'eng tsu — Yung Lo.
- chanteuses — Plural form of chanteuse.
- charcutier — a pork butcher.
- charthouse — the compartment on a ship or boat where charts are kept
- chartreuse — either of two liqueurs, green or yellow, made from herbs and flowers
- chartulary — cartulary
- chautauqua — (in the US, formerly) a summer school or educational meeting held in the summer
- chauvinist — a person who is aggressively and blindly patriotic, especially one devoted to military glory.
- check stub — A check stub is the part of a check that is kept by the payee with information such as the check number, date, and amount.
- chicoutimi — city in SC Quebec, Canada, on the Saguenay River: pop. 63,000
- chikamatsu — Monzaemon [mawn-zah-e-mawn] /ˈmɔn zɑ ɛˈmɔn/ (Show IPA), 1653–1724, Japanese playwright.
- choreutics — a system that analyzes form in movement, developed by Rudolf von Laban (1879–1958), Hungarian choreographer and dance theorist.
- choucroute — a dish, resembling sauerkraut, that consists of cabbage that has been preserved by soaking in pickle
- chrononaut — (science fiction, dated) A time-traveller.
- chuang-tzu — Also, Chwang-tse. (Chuang Chow) flourished 4th century b.c, Chinese mystic and philosopher.
- chuntering — to grumble or grouse mildly or tediously.
- chuttering — Present participle of chutter.
- clothbound — (of a book) bound in stiff boards covered in cloth
- club wheat — a wheat, Triticum compactum, characterized by compact, club-shaped spikes, used for making pastry flour and the like.
- clutch bag — clutch1 (def 15).
- coal chute — an inclined channel or vertical passage down which coal may be dropped
- coauthored — one of two or more joint authors.
- continueth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of continue.
- coquettish — If you describe a woman as coquettish, you mean she acts in a playful way that is intended to make men find her attractive.
- couchettes — Plural form of couchette.
- countryish — similar to that which is typical of country music
- court hand — a style of handwriting formerly used in English law courts
- 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.
- courtships — Plural form of courtship.
- crumbcloth — a cloth placed under a dining table to protect the carpet from crumbs and other material
- crunchtime — the tense, critical phase of an activity
- crutchings — the wool clipped from a sheep's hindquarters
- cuchifrito — a small piece of pork, pig's stomach, etc. dipped in batter and deep-fried
- curateship — the office or position of a curate
- cut a dash — If you say that someone cuts a dash, you mean that they have an attractively stylish appearance or a rather bold manner.
- cut-throat — If you describe a situation as cut-throat, you mean that the people or companies involved all want success and do not care if they harm each other in getting it.
- cutthroats — Plural form of cutthroat.
- cuttlefish — A cuttlefish is a sea animal that has a soft body and a hard shell inside.
- daughterly — of, like, or proper to a daughter
- death duty — a tax on property inheritances: in Britain, replaced in 1975 by capital transfer tax and since 1986 by inheritance tax
- declutched — Simple past tense and past participle of declutch.