10-letter words containing a, c, e, p, t
- contracept — to prevent the conception of (offspring).
- contraplex — relating to the transmission of two messages in opposite directions simultaneously
- contrapose — to place in contraposition.
- cooperated — to work or act together or jointly for a common purpose or benefit.
- cooperates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cooperate.
- cooperator — to work or act together or jointly for a common purpose or benefit.
- cooptative — to elect into a body by the votes of the existing members.
- copartners — Plural form of copartner.
- copartnery — copartnership
- copayments — Plural form of copayment.
- copulative — serving to join or unite
- copycatted — Simple past tense and past participle of copycat.
- corporated — Simple past tense and past participle of corporate.
- corporates — Plural form of corporate.
- cospectral — (mathematics) isospectral.
- crepitated — Simple past tense and past participle of crepitate.
- crepitates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of crepitate.
- crispature — the state of being crisped or crispate
- ctenophora — the phylum comprising the comb jellies.
- cup of tea — a favorite or well-suited thing, activity, etc.
- curateship — the office or position of a curate
- cuspidated — Alternative form of cuspidate.
- cut a tape — To write a software or document distribution on magnetic tape for shipment. Has nothing to do with physically cutting the medium! "Cutting a disk" has also been reported as live usage. Related slang usages are mainstream business's "cut a check", the recording industry's "cut a record", and the military's "cut an order". All of these usages reflect physical processes in obsolete recording and duplication technologies. The first stage in manufacturing an old-style vinyl record involved cutting grooves in a stamping die with a precision lathe. More mundanely, the dominant technology for mass duplication of paper documents in pre-photocopying days involved "cutting a stencil", punching away portions of the wax overlay on a silk screen. More directly, paper tape with holes punched in it was an important early storage medium.
- cyanophyte — a former name for a cyanobacterium
- cyanotypes — Plural form of cyanotype.
- cycle path — A cycle path is a special path on which people can travel by bicycle separately from motor vehicles.
- d particle — D meson.
- death camp — A death camp is a place where prisoners are kept, especially during a war, and where many of them die or are killed.
- deathplace — the place at which a person dies: Lincoln is buried in Illinois, but his deathplace was Washington, D.C.
- decampment — The act of decamping.
- decapitate — If someone is decapitated, their head is cut off.
- deceptable — Vulnerable to deception.
- deck plate — a purlin plate at the edge of a deck.
- deprecated — to express earnest disapproval of.
- deprecates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deprecate.
- deprecator — to express earnest disapproval of.
- depreciate — If something such as a currency depreciates or if something depreciates it, it loses some of its original value.
- despatched — Simple past tense and past participle of despatch.
- despatcher — Alternative form of dispatcher.
- despatches — Plural form of despatch.
- despotical — of, relating to, or of the nature of a despot or despotism; autocratic; tyrannical.
- dictaphone — a tape recorder designed for recording dictation and later reproducing it for typing
- dirt cheap — very inexpensive: The house may need a lot of work, but it was dirt-cheap.
- dirt-cheap — very inexpensive: The house may need a lot of work, but it was dirt-cheap.
- discrepant — (usually of two or more objects, accounts, findings etc.) differing; disagreeing; inconsistent: discrepant accounts.
- disculpate — (transitive) To free from blame or the imputation of a fault; to exculpate.
- dispatched — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- dispatcher — a person who dispatches.
- dispatches — Plural form of dispatch.
- duplicated — a copy exactly like an original.