10-letter words containing a, c, p, o
- chaperonin — A protein that aids the assembly and folding of other protein molecules in living cells.
- charophyte — any green algae of the class Charophyceae (or group Charophyta), comprising the stoneworts.
- cheap shot — A cheap shot is a comment someone makes which you think is unfair or unkind.
- chip wagon — a small van in which chips are cooked and sold
- chirograph — an indenture
- chopfallen — chapfallen
- chorograph — An instrument for constructing triangles in marine surveying, etc.
- chromatype — a procedure in photography that uses photographic paper that is made reactive to light by the use of a salt of chromium
- chrysophan — a glucoside that is bitter to the taste and yellow in colour
- cibophobia — The fear of, or aversion to, eating or food.
- ciliophora — a phylum of protozoa in the kingdom Protista, comprising the ciliates.
- citalopram — an antidepressant drug, C 20 H 22 BrFN 20 , of the SSRI class, that acts by prolonging the action of serotonin in the brain.
- cladophyll — a green, flattened branch arising from the axil of a leaf, with the shape and functions of a foliage leaf
- clamp down — To clamp down on people or activities means to take strong official action to stop or control them.
- clamp-down — a device, usually of some rigid material, for strengthening or supporting objects or fastening them together.
- clampdowns — Plural form of clampdown.
- clapboards — Plural form of clapboard.
- clapometer — a device that measures applause
- clapperboy — a boy who operates a clapper
- clappy-doo — a large black mussel
- climograph — A chart that summarizes the climate of a place by superimposing a line graph representing average monthly temperature on a bar chart representing average monthly precipitation.
- clinograph — (in mining, construction, etc.) an instrument that records the deviation of boreholes or the like from the vertical.
- clipboards — Plural form of clipboard.
- clistocarp — cleistothecium.
- clonazepam — a medication used to treat conditions that involve seizures
- cloud peak — a mountain in N central Wyoming: highest peak in the Bighorn Mountains. 13,175 feet (4018 meters).
- cloudscape — a picturesque formation of clouds
- co-captain — a joint captain
- co-operate — If you co-operate with someone, you work with them or help them for a particular purpose. You can also say that two people co-operate.
- co-partner — a partner or associate, as in a business.
- co-payment — payment required of an insured person for that portion of medical expenses not paid by the insurance company; specif., a fixed fee required for each prescription, visit to a doctor, etc.
- coach park — an area reserved for parking coaches
- coach trip — any tour, journey, or voyage made by bus
- coal depot — a place at which coal may be deposited, stored, etc
- coaptation — the joining or reuniting of two surfaces, esp the ends of a broken bone or the edges of a wound
- coated pit — a clathrin-lined depression in the outer surface of a cell membrane, formed of receptors and their specific ligands, that becomes a coated vesicle upon endocytosis.
- cochampion — a joint champion
- codswallop — If you describe something that someone has just said as codswallop, you mean that you think it is nonsense.
- cold-patch — to apply a cold patch to.
- coleoptera — the largest order in the animal kingdom; the beetles
- collagraph — An artistic print made through the printmaking process of collagraphy.
- collapsars — Plural form of collapsar.
- collapsing — Present participle of collapse.
- collapsion — (archaic) collapse.
- collophane — a massive, cryptocrystalline variety of apatite that is the principal component of phosphate rock and fossil bone.
- colportage — the work of a colporteur.
- comeupance — Alternative form of comeuppance.
- compactify — to make or become compact
- compacting — Present participle of compact.
- compaction — a compacting or being compacted; compression