10-letter words starting with cha
- chambranle — the three-sided ornamental bordering found around doors, windows, and fireplaces
- chameleons — Plural form of chameleon.
- chamfering — Present participle of chamfer.
- chamomiles — Plural form of chamomile.
- champagnes — Plural form of champagne.
- champaigne — Philippe de (filip də). 1602–74, French painter, born in Brussels: noted particularly for his portraits and historical and religious scenes
- champignon — any of various agaricaceous edible mushrooms, esp Marasmius oreades and the meadow mushroom
- championed — a person who has defeated all opponents in a competition or series of competitions, so as to hold first place: the heavyweight boxing champion.
- chanceless — the absence of any cause of events that can be predicted, understood, or controlled: often personified or treated as a positive agency: Chance governs all.
- chancellor — Chancellor is the title of the head of government in Germany and Austria.
- chanceries — Plural form of chancery.
- chanciness — The quality of being chancy or risky; riskiness.
- chancroids — Plural form of chancroid.
- chandelier — A chandelier is a large, decorative frame which holds light bulbs or candles and hangs from the ceiling.
- chandigarh — a city and Union Territory of N India, joint capital of the Punjab and Haryana: modern city planned in the 1950s by Le Corbusier. Pop: 808 796 (2001), of city; 900 414 (2001), of union territory. Area (of union territory): 114 sq km (44 sq miles)
- chandlerly — like, or pertaining to, a chandler
- change key — a key opening only one lock.
- change off — to take turns
- changeable — Someone or something that is changeable is likely to change many times.
- changeably — liable to change or to be changed; variable.
- changeless — unchanging; immutable
- changeling — A changeling is a child who was put in the place of another child when they were both babies. In stories changelings were often taken or left by fairies.
- changeover — A changeover is a change from one activity or system to another.
- changeroom — a room for use in changing one's clothes.
- channel op — (messaging) /chan'l op/ (Or "op", "chan op", "chop") Someone who is endowed with privileges on a particular IRC channel. These privileges include the right to kick users, to change various status bits and to make others into CHOPs. The full form, "channel operator", is almost never used.
- channeling — esp. in some New Age beliefs, the process by which a person becomes a conduit for a deceased person, as someone from an ancient culture, who imparts information about a previous life
- channelise — Alternative form of channelize.
- channelize — to guide through or as if through a channel; provide a channel for
- channelled — the bed of a stream, river, or other waterway.
- channeller — Alternative spelling of channeler.
- chanteuses — Plural form of chanteuse.
- chap stick — lip balm
- chaparajos — (in Mexico) chaps.
- chaparejos — chaps1
- chaparrals — Plural form of chaparral.
- chapatties — Plural form of chapatty.
- 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.
- chapfallen — dejected; downhearted; crestfallen
- chaplaincy — A chaplaincy is the building or office in which a chaplain works.
- chaptalize — to add sugar to (a fermenting wine) to increase the alcohol content
- chapter 11 — the statute regarding the reorganization of a failing business empowering a court to allow the debtors to remain in control of the business to attempt to save it
- charabancs — Plural form of charabanc.
- characters — the aggregate of features and traits that form the individual nature of some person or thing.
- charactery — the use of symbols to express thoughts
- charbroils — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of charbroil.
- charcutier — a pork butcher.
- chardonnay — a white grape originally grown in the Burgundy region of France, and now throughout the wine-producing world
- chardonnet — (Louis Marie) Hilaire Bernigaud (ilɛr bɛrniɡo), Comte de. 1839–1924, French chemist and industrialist who produced rayon, the first artificial fibre