10-letter words containing n, a, c, h, o
- hard-knock — beset with hardship.
- harmonical — Alternative form of harmonic.
- harmonicas — Plural form of harmonica.
- harmonicon — harmonica (def 1).
- head count — an inventory of people in a group taken by counting individuals.
- hemianopic — having or relating to hemianopia
- hemocyanin — a blue, copper-containing respiratory pigment in the plasma of many invertebrates.
- henchwoman — Feminine of henchman.
- hendecagon — a polygon having 11 angles and 11 sides.
- heptatonic — (of a musical scale) comprising seven notes
- hieromancy — divination through studying objects offered in sacrifice
- homorganic — (of two or more speech sounds) having the same place of articulation, as p, b, and m, which are all bilabial.
- homuncular — an artificially made dwarf, supposedly produced in a flask by an alchemist.
- honor camp — a prison work camp operating on an honor system.
- honor card — honor (def 11).
- hopsacking — bagging made chiefly of hemp and jute.
- horn chair — a chair, especially of the late 19th-century U.S., having a frame made from steer, elk, buffalo, or other animal horns.
- housatonic — a river flowing S from NW Massachusetts through SW Connecticut to Long Island Sound near Stratford, Connecticut. 148 miles (240 km) long.
- houseclean — to subject (a house, room, etc.) to housecleaning.
- hyaluronic — Of or pertaining to hyaluronic acid or its derivatives.
- hycanthone — A particular schistosomicide, a metabolite of lucanthone.
- hydromancy — divination by means of the motions or appearance of water.
- hypnagogic — of or relating to drowsiness.
- hypocapnia — (medicine) A state of reduced carbon dioxide in the blood.
- ice anchor — a large, hooklike device for setting in ice to anchor a vessel or to provide a hold for a hawser in warping it along.
- ichinomiya — a city on central Honshu, in central Japan.
- iconograph — symbolic representation, especially the conventional meanings attached to an image or images.
- iconomachy — opposition to the worship of images or icons
- in cahoots — go cahoots, to share equally; become partners: They went cahoots in the establishment of the store. Also, go in cahoot with, go in cahoots.
- inchoately — not yet completed or fully developed; rudimentary.
- inchoation — a beginning; origin.
- inchoative — inceptive.
- inharmonic — not harmonic; dissonant.
- isochronal — equal or uniform in time.
- jacobethan — noting or pertaining to the architecture of England at the beginning of the 17th century.
- john cabot — John (Giovanni Caboto) c1450–98? Italian navigator in the service of England: discoverer of North American mainland 1497.
- johnnycake — a cake or bread made of corn meal and water or milk, usually cooked on a griddle.
- jonah crab — a large, red, deepwater crab, Cancer borealis, of the east coast of North America.
- kalanchoes — Plural form of kalanchoe.
- klootchman — a North American Indian woman
- knob latch — a latch having a spring bolt controlled by a knob on one or both sides.
- kuang-chou — Guangzhou
- latch onto — a device for holding a door, gate, or the like, closed, consisting basically of a bar falling or sliding into a catch, groove, hole, etc.
- lithomancy — Divination with the use of precious or semi-precious stones, gemstones, or normal stones by either interpreting the light they reflect (crystallomancy), or how they fall (sortilege).
- loch raven — a town in central Maryland, near Baltimore.
- long beach — a city in SW California, S of Los Angeles: a seaside resort.
- long march — the 6000-mile (9654-km) retreat of the Chinese Communist Party and Red Army from southeastern China (Jiangxi province) to the northwest (Yanan in Shaanxi province) in 1934–35, during which Mao Zedong became leader of the Communist party.
- long-chain — pertaining to molecules composed of long chains of atoms, or polymers composed of long chains of monomers.
- lucanthone — A particular drug used in chemotherapy.
- lunchwagon — a small bus, truck, or other vehicle outfitted for selling or for serving light meals and snacks to the public.