10-letter words containing a, c, r, o, t
- cortically — Anatomy. of, pertaining to, resembling, or consisting of cortex.
- corticated — having a cortex.
- coruscated — Simple past tense and past participle of coruscate.
- corybantic — frenzied; agitated; unrestrained.
- cosmocrats — Plural form of cosmocrat.
- cosmolatry — the worship of the cosmos
- cospectral — (mathematics) isospectral.
- cost-share — to share the cost of: to cost-share a joint venture.
- costa rica — a republic in Central America: gained independence from Spain in 1821; mostly mountainous and volcanic, with extensive forests. Official language: Spanish. Official religion: Roman Catholic. Currency: colón. Capital: San José. Pop: 4 695 942 (2013 est). Area: 50 900 sq km (19 652 sq miles)
- costarring — Present participle of costar.
- cotehardie — (in the Middle Ages) a close-fitting outer garment with long sleeves, hip-length for men and full-length for women, often laced or buttoned down the front or back.
- coterminal — having the same border or covering the same area.
- cotransfer — a simultaneous transfer of multiple genes
- cotylosaur — any of various members of the extinct order of primitive and massive reptiles known as Cotylosauria, which lived between the Carboniferous and Triassic ages
- counteract — To counteract something means to reduce its effect by doing something that produces an opposite effect.
- counterair — (military) Attacking the air force of an opposing power.
- counterman — a man who works on a lunch counter or behind the counter of a cafe
- counterwar — War waged in response to another war.
- countryman — Your countrymen are people from your own country.
- courantyne — a river in N South America, rising in S Guyana and flowing north to the Atlantic, forming the boundary between Guyana and Surinam. Length: 765 km (475 miles)
- coursemate — One who is taking the same academic course.
- court card — (in a pack of playing cards) a king, queen, or jack of any suit
- court case — a legal action
- court hand — a style of handwriting formerly used in English law courts
- courtcraft — the artifices and intrigues of a royal court
- courtesans — Plural form of courtesan.
- courtyards — Plural form of courtyard.
- covariates — Plural form of covariate.
- covenanter — a person upholding the National Covenant of 1638 or the Solemn League and Covenant of 1643 between Scotland and England to establish and defend Presbyterianism
- covenantor — a party who makes a promise and who is to perform the obligation expressed in a covenant
- coventrate — To devastate by heavy bombing.
- cowcatcher — a metal frame on the front of a locomotive to clear the track of animals or other obstructions
- cowfeteria — a calf feeder with multiple teats
- crack root — (security, jargon) To defeat the security system of a Unix machine and gain root privileges thereby. The sort of thing a cracker wants to do.
- craniotomy — any surgical incision into the skull, esp to expose the brain for neurosurgery
- crapshoots — Plural form of crapshoot.
- crash boat — a small, fast boat used in rescue operations, especially for airplane crashes.
- creational — Of, or pertaining to creation.
- cremations — Plural form of cremation.
- crematoria — a crematory.
- cretaceous — consisting of or resembling chalk
- cribration — the action of sifting, esp (in pharmacy) to separate finer particles of a drug from coarser particles
- crispation — the act of curling or state of being curled
- croissants — Plural form of croissant.
- cross rate — A cross rate is an exchange rate of two currencies expressed in a third different currency, such as the exchange rate between the euro and the yuan expressed in yen.
- cross talk — interference in one channel from another or others
- crosshatch — to shade or hatch (forms, figures, etc) with two or more sets of parallel lines that cross one another
- crossmatch — (pathology) To test that the blood of a donor and recipient are compatible.
- crosspatch — a peevish bad-tempered person
- crotalaria — a genus of plants and shrubs of the Fabaceae family with pods in which the seeds rattle