10-letter words containing h, u, c
- chikamatsu — Monzaemon [mawn-zah-e-mawn] /ˈmɔn zɑ ɛˈmɔn/ (Show IPA), 1653–1724, Japanese playwright.
- chin music — bowling or pitching aimed at the batsman or batter's head
- china blue — a bright greenish blue.
- chinch bug — a black-and-white tropical American heteropterous insect, Blissus leucopterus, that is very destructive to grasses and cereals in the US: family Lygaeidae
- chine nual — (documentation) /sheen'yu-*l/ (MIT) The LISP Machine Manual, so called because the title was wrapped around the cover so only those letters showed on the front.
- chinquapin — a dwarf chestnut tree, Castanea pumila, of the eastern US, yielding edible nuts
- chipmunked — Simple past tense and past participle of chipmunk.
- 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.
- chiungchou — Qiongzhou.
- chivalrous — A chivalrous man is polite, kind, and unselfish, especially towards women.
- chock-full — Something that is chock-full is completely full.
- choke-full — chock-full.
- cholagogue — a drug or other substance that promotes the flow of bile from the gall bladder into the duodenum
- choliambus — a line of iambic meter with a spondee or trochee replacing the last foot.
- chondrules — Plural form of chondrule.
- chop-house — a restaurant specializing in chop, steaks, and the like.
- chophouses — Plural form of chophouse.
- chopped-up — cut into pieces
- 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
- chow hound — a person who eats food in large quantities or with great gusto; glutton.
- 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.
- chuang-tzu — Also, Chwang-tse. (Chuang Chow) flourished 4th century b.c, Chinese mystic and philosopher.
- chubb lock — a type of lock with a device that sets the bolt immovably if the lock is picked
- chubbiness — round and plump: a chubby child; a chubby face.
- chubsucker — any of several stout suckers of the genus Erimyzon, inhabiting sluggish streams, backwaters, and lakes of the central and eastern U.S.
- chuck away — If you chuck something away, you throw it away or waste it.
- chuck-full — chock-full
- chuckholes — Plural form of chuckhole.
- chuckwagon — A wagon equipped with food and cooking utensils, as on a ranch or in a lumber camp.
- chuckwalla — a lizard, Sauromalus obesus, that has an inflatable body and inhabits desert regions of the southwestern US: family Iguanidae (iguanas)
- chuffiness — the quality of being chuffy; boorishness
- chug-a-lug — to consume (a drink) in one gulp
- chumminess — friendly; intimate; sociable.
- chundering — vomit.
- chunderous — nauseating
- chunkiness — The state of being chunky.
- 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