10-letter words containing a, c, r, o
- casseroles — Plural form of casserole.
- castigator — to criticize or reprimand severely.
- castleford — a town in N England, in Wakefield unitary authority, West Yorkshire on the River Aire. Pop: 37 525 (2001)
- castor oil — Castor oil is a thick yellow oil that is obtained from the seeds of the castor oil plant. It has a very unpleasant taste and in former times was used as a medicine.
- castration — to remove the testes of; emasculate; geld.
- castrators — to remove the testes of; emasculate; geld.
- castratory — of or relating to castration
- cat around — to search promiscuously for sexual partners; be promiscuous
- catalogers — Plural form of cataloger.
- cataloguer — One who catalogues.
- cataphoric — the use of a word or phrase to refer to a following word or group of words, as the use of the phrase as follows.
- catch crop — a quick-growing crop planted between two regular crops grown in consecutive seasons, or between two rows of regular crops in the same season
- catch-cord — a cord or wire located near a selvage, used to form a loop or deflect the filling yarn not intended to be woven permanently in with the regular selvage.
- catchwords — Plural form of catchword.
- categorial — of or relating to a category
- categories — any general or comprehensive division; a class.
- categorise — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- categorist — a person who categorizes or inserts items in a list
- categorize — If you categorize people or things, you divide them into sets or you say which set they belong to.
- category 3 — (hardware) (Cat 3, or "voice grade") An American Standards Institute standard for UTP cables. Used, e.g., for 100BaseVG network cabling.
- category 5 — The term Category 5 refers to Ethernet cabling that allows data transfers up to 100 Megabits per second.
- category a — (of a prisoner) regarded as highly dangerous and therefore requiring constant observation and maximum security
- category d — (of a prisoner) regarded as sufficiently trustworthy to be kept under open prison conditions
- catoptrics — the branch of optics concerned with reflection, esp the formation of images by mirrors
- cauliflory — the production of flowers on the trunk, branches, etc, of a woody plant, as opposed to the ends of the twigs
- cautionary — A cautionary story or a cautionary note to a story is one that is intended to give a warning to people.
- cautioners — Plural form of cautioner.
- cavortings — sexual frolics
- cedar robe — Dialect. a cedar chest or cedar-lined wardrobe.
- cefadroxil — A broad-spectrum cephalosporin antibiotic.
- celebrator — to observe (a day) or commemorate (an event) with ceremonies or festivities: to celebrate Christmas; to celebrate the success of a new play.
- censorware — (computing) Software or hardware used to filter content on the Internet or block Internet access or restrict the running of applications or computer usage. Content filtering software, or a component in an operating system or console used to disable reception of media on the basis of content believed to be objectionable.
- centration — The tendency to focus on one aspect of a situation and neglect others.
- centroidal — of or relating to a centroid
- ceratopsid — a dinosaur belonging to the family Ceratopsidae, characterized by their parrot-like beaks, horns and neck frills
- ceratosaur — a carnivorous, swift-running North American theropod dinosaur of the genus Ceratosaurus and closely related genera, of the Jurassic Period, having a large skull with a short horn between the nostrils and a bony knob in front of each eye, and reaching a length of 20 feet (6.1 meter).
- ceremonial — Something that is ceremonial relates to a ceremony or is used in a ceremony.
- ceroferary — Candleholder (especially for a large, church candle).
- cerography — the art of engraving on a waxed plate on which a printing surface is created by electrotyping
- certiorari — an order of a superior court directing that a record of proceedings in a lower court be sent up for review
- cessionary — a person to whom something is transferred; assignee; grantee
- cfortran.h — (library) A transparent, machine independent interface between C and Fortran routines and global data, developed by Burkhard Burow at CERN. It provides macros which allow the C preprocessor to translate a simple description of a C (Fortran) routine or global data into a Fortran (C) interface. Version 2.6 runs on VAX/VMS/Ultrix, DECstation, Silicon Graphics, IBM RS/6000, Sun, Cray, Apollo, HP9000, LynxOS, f2c, NAG f90. cfortran.h was reviewed in RS/Magazine November 1992 and a user's experiences with cfortran.h are described in the Jan 93 issue of Computers in Physics.
- chadderton — a town in NW England, in Oldham unitary authority, in Greater Manchester. Pop: 33 001 (2001)
- chain-work — any decorative product, handiwork, etc., in which parts are looped or woven together, like the links of a chain.
- chairborne — having an administrative or desk job rather than a more active one
- chairbound — unable to walk; dependent on a wheelchair for mobility
- chairwoman — The chairwoman of a meeting, committee, or organization is the woman in charge of it.
- chairwomen — Plural form of chairwoman.
- chalkboard — A chalkboard is a dark-coloured board that you can write on with chalk. Chalkboards are often used by teachers in the classroom.
- chamberpot — a vessel for urine, used in bedrooms