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10-letter words containing a, c, t, e, r

  • city break — a short holiday spent in a city
  • clapometer — a device that measures applause
  • claret cup — an iced drink made of claret, brandy, lemon, sugar, and sometimes sherry, Curaçao, etc
  • clathrates — Plural form of clathrate.
  • clattering — to make a loud, rattling sound, as that produced by hard objects striking rapidly one against the other: The shutters clattered in the wind.
  • clavierist — a person who plays the clavier
  • clay eater — (in the South Atlantic States) a term used to refer to a poor, uneducated person from a rural area.
  • clearstory — clerestory
  • clearwater — city in WC Fla., on the Gulf of Mexico: suburb of St. Petersburg: pop. 109,000
  • climateric — (obsolete) climatic.
  • clock rate — (processor, benchmark)   The fundamental rate in cycles per second at which a computer performs its most basic operations such as adding two numbers or transfering a value from one register to another. The clock rate of a computer is normally determined by the frequency of a crystal. The original IBM PC, circa 1981, had a clock rate of 4.77 MHz (almost five million cycles/second). As of 1995, Intel's Pentium chip runs at 100 MHz (100 million cycles/second). The clock rate of a computer is only useful for providing comparisons between computer chips in the same processor family. An IBM PC with an Intel 486 CPU running at 50 MHz will be about twice as fast as one with the same CPU, memory and display running at 25 MHz. However, there are many other factors to consider when comparing different computers. Clock rate should not be used when comparing different computers or different processor families. Rather, some benchmark should be used. Clock rate can be very misleading, since the amount of work different computer chips can do in one cycle varies. For example, RISC CPUs tend to have simpler instructions than CISC CPUs (but higher clock rates) and pipelined processors execute more than one instruction per cycle.
  • clofibrate — a medication used in the treatment of heart disease
  • cloth ears — a deaf person
  • clubmaster — the manager of a gentlemen's club
  • 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.
  • coacervate — either of two liquid phases that may separate from a hydrophilic sol, each containing a different concentration of a dispersed solid
  • coalmaster — the owner of a colliery
  • coarctated — Simple past tense and past participle of coarctate.
  • coasterize — to ruin (a CD), esp while attempting to burn music, etc on to it, thus rendering it useful only as a drinks coaster
  • coat dress — a lightweight button-through garment that can be worn either as a dress or as a coat
  • coatbridge — an industrial town in central Scotland, in North Lanarkshire. Pop: 41 170 (2001)
  • coathanger — Alternative spelling of coat hanger.
  • coauthored — one of two or more joint authors.
  • cockatrice — a legendary monster, part snake and part cock, that could kill with a glance
  • cockteaser — a girl or woman who purposely excites or arouses a male sexually but then refuses to have intercourse.
  • cocreation — Joint creation.
  • codetalker — A military communications specialist using codes based on an obscure language.
  • cofavorite — a joint favourite
  • cogenerate — To generate two forms of energy simultaneously.
  • coimbatore — an industrial city in SW India, in W Tamil Nadu. Pop: 923 085 (2001)
  • cold-water — designating a room, apartment, etc. that is not provided with hot water or, sometimes, a bathroom
  • coldstream — a town in SE Scotland, in Scottish Borders on the English border: the Coldstream Guards were formed here (1660). Pop: 1813 (2001)
  • coleoptera — the largest order in the animal kingdom; the beetles
  • collarette — a woman's fur or lace collar
  • collateral — Collateral is money or property which is used as a guarantee that someone will repay a loan.
  • colorature — (music) An elaborate melody, particularly in vocal music and especially in operatic singing of the 18th and 19th centuries, with runs, trills, leaps, etc.
  • colorectal — of or relating to the colon and rectum
  • colportage — the work of a colporteur.
  • comiserate — Obsolete spelling of commiserate.
  • commentary — A commentary is a description of an event that is broadcast on radio or television while the event is taking place.
  • compacture — an act of joining or bringing into proximity
  • compearant — a person who appears in court
  • concertina — A concertina is a musical instrument consisting of two end pieces with stiff paper or cloth that folds up between them. You play the concertina by pressing the buttons on the end pieces while moving them together and apart.
  • congregant — Congregants are members of a congregation.
  • congregate — When people congregate, they gather together and form a group.
  • consecrate — When a building, place, or object is consecrated, it is officially declared to be holy. When a person is consecrated, they are officially declared to be a bishop.
  • consectary — a consequence or conclusion
  • conservant — having the quality of conserving or preserving
  • conservate — (dated, transitive) To conserve.
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