10-letter words containing a, c, n, t
- cruciation — (obsolete) torture; torment.
- crude tank — A crude tank is a large vessel for crude oil.
- crustacean — A crustacean is an animal with a hard shell and several pairs of legs, which usually lives in water. Crabs, lobsters, and shrimps are crustaceans.
- crustation — the action of forming a crust
- ct scanner — computerized tomography scanner: an X-ray machine that can produce stereographic images
- ctenophora — the phylum comprising the comb jellies.
- culminated — Simple past tense and past participle of culminate.
- culminates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of culminate.
- cumulating — to heap up; amass; accumulate.
- cumulation — the act of cumulating; accumulation.
- cunctation — delay
- cunctative — delay; tardiness.
- cunctatory — prone to delaying
- curtailing — Present participle of curtail.
- curtain-up — the moment when the curtain is raised and a play or similar show begins
- curtaining — Present participle of curtain.
- curtmantle — ("Henry the Saint") 973–1024, king of Germany 1002–24 and emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1014–24.
- custodians — Plural form of custodian.
- cyanometer — an instrument used for measuring the blueness of the sky
- cyanopathy — (medicine) A disease in which the surface of the body turns blue, usually arising from a malformation of the heart, which causes an imperfect arterialization of the blood.
- cyanophyta — a phylum, or subkingdom, in the kingdom Monera, comprising the blue-green algae.
- cyanophyte — a former name for a cyanobacterium
- cyanotypes — Plural form of cyanotype.
- cysteamine — a drug used to treat cystine excretion or radiation sickness
- cystinuria — a condition in which excessive levels of cystine are present in the urine
- cytarabine — a toxic synthetic nucleoside, C 9 H 13 N 3 O 5 , used as an immunosuppressive and cytotoxic agent in the treatment of certain leukemias.
- datacenter — a facility equipped with or connected to one or more computers, used for processing or transmitting data.
- datacentre — Alternative spelling of data centre.
- decadently — In a decadent manner.
- decampment — The act of decamping.
- decathlons — Plural form of decathlon.
- decimating — Present participle of decimate.
- decimation — to destroy a great number or proportion of: The population was decimated by a plague.
- declarants — Plural form of declarant.
- declinator — a piece of apparatus that establishes the measure of a plane's deviation from the prime vertical or the meridian
- decolorant — able to decolour or bleach
- decontract — (ambitransitive) To expand from a contracted state.
- decorating — the painting or wallpapering of a room, house, etc
- decoration — The decoration of a room is its furniture, wallpaper, and ornaments.
- decreation — Destruction.
- decstation — (computer) A range of RISC based workstations manufactured by DEC.
- dedicating — to set apart and consecrate to a deity or to a sacred purpose: The ancient Greeks dedicated many shrines to Aphrodite.
- dedication — A dedication is a message which is written at the beginning of a book, or a short announcement which is sometimes made before a play or piece of music is performed, as a sign of affection or respect for someone.
- defacement — to mar the surface or appearance of; disfigure: to deface a wall by writing on it.
- defecating — Present participle of defecate.
- defecation — to void excrement from the bowels through the anus; have a bowel movement.
- deforciant — a person who wrongfully withholds something from someone by force
- demicanton — either of the two parts of certain Swiss cantons
- denunciate — to condemn; denounce
- deracinate — to pull up by or as if by the roots; uproot; extirpate