10-letter words containing a, c, e, r
- campimetry — a technique for assessing the central part of the visual field
- can opener — A can opener is the same as a tin opener.
- can-opener — a manual device or small electric appliance for opening cans.
- cancerette — (slang, derogatory) A cigarette.
- cancerroot — any parasitic plant of the genus Orobanche, especially O. uniflora, of North America, having pale, leafless stalks bearing a single white or purplish flower.
- cancionero — a songbook
- candelabra — A candelabra is an ornamental holder for two or more candles.
- cane chair — a chair, the back and seat of which are made of interlaced strips of cane.
- cane grass — any of several tall perennial hard-stemmed grasses, esp Eragrostis australasica, of inland swamps
- cane sugar — the sucrose obtained from sugar cane, which is identical to that obtained from sugar beet
- canebrakes — Plural form of canebrake.
- canecutter — any of several species of large cottontails inhabiting swamps or marshes.
- canephoros — in ancient Greece, any of the maidens who carried on her head a basket holding the sacred things used at feasts
- caney fork — a river in central Tennessee, flowing NW to the Cumberland River. 144 miles (232 km) long.
- cankeredly — spitefully or crabbedly
- cankerroot — goldthread.
- cankerworm — the larva of either of two geometrid moths, Paleacrita vernata or Alsophila pometaria, which feed on and destroy fruit and shade trees in North America
- cannelured — a groove or fluting around the cylindrical part of a bullet.
- cannelures — Plural form of cannelure.
- cannisters — Plural form of cannister.
- cannoneers — Plural form of cannoneer.
- cant frame — any of several frames bracketed aft of the transom of a ship and inclined slightly to the fore-and-aft direction.
- cantalever — any rigid structural member projecting from a vertical support, especially one in which the projection is great in relation to the depth, so that the upper part is in tension and the lower part in compression.
- cantatrice — a female singer, esp a professional soloist
- canterbury — a late 18th-century low wooden stand with partitions for holding cutlery and plates: often mounted on casters
- cantilever — A cantilever is a long piece of metal or wood used in a structure such as a bridge. One end is fastened to something and the other end is used to support part of the structure.
- cantor set — the set obtained from the closed interval from 0 to 1 by removing the middle third from the interval, then the middle third from each of the two remaining sets, and continuing the process indefinitely.
- canvassers — Plural form of canvasser.
- cape coral — city in SW Fla.: pop. 102,000
- cape verde — a cape in Senegal, near Dakar: the westernmost point of Africa
- cape wrath — a promontory at the NW extremity of the Scottish mainland
- cape-wrath — Cape, a high promontory in NW Scotland: most NW point on mainland.
- capillaire — a syrup flavoured with maidenhair fern or orange flower water
- capistrate — (zoology, rare) hooded; cowled.
- caporegime — the second in command to a capo; Mafia lieutenant.
- capraesque — relating to or in the style of the movies of Frank Capra, focusing on courage and its positive effects and the triumph of the underdog.
- capreolate — possessing or resembling tendrils
- capsomeres — Plural form of capsomere.
- capturable — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- caquetoire — cacqueteuse.
- car bomber — someone who hides a bomb under or in a car
- car dealer — a person or business which sells cars
- car stereo — a stereo built into the dashboard of an automobile
- car-jacker — A car-jacker is someone who attacks and steals from people who are driving their own cars.
- car-worker — a person who works in the car industry
- carabineer — a soldier armed with a carbine
- carabinero — a Chilean police officer
- carabiners — Plural form of carabiner.
- carabinier — (formerly) a soldier armed with a carbine.
- caramelise — (cooking) To convert sugar into caramel.