10-letter words containing a, c, t, o, n
- capitation — a tax levied on the basis of a fixed amount per head
- capitolian — of or relating to the Capitoline
- capitoline — of or relating to the Capitoline or the temple of Jupiter
- captioning — Present participle of caption.
- carbon tax — A carbon tax is a tax on the burning of fuels such as coal, gas, and oil. Its aim is to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere.
- carbonated — Carbonated drinks are drinks that contain small bubbles of carbon dioxide.
- carbonates — a salt or ester of carbonic acid.
- carbonette — a ball of compressed coal dust used as fuel
- carnations — Plural form of carnation.
- carotenoid — any of a group of red or yellow pigments, including carotenes, found in plants and certain animal tissues
- carrington — Dora, known as Carrington. 1893–1932, British painter, engraver, and letter writer; a member of the Bloomsbury Group
- carrollton — city in NE Tex.: suburb of Dallas: pop. 110,000
- cartomancy — the telling of fortunes with playing cards
- cartoneros — Plural form of cartonero.
- cartonnage — The papyrus used to wrap mummies in ancient Egypt.
- cartonnier — an ornamental box for papers, usually for placing on a desk.
- cartooning — a sketch or drawing, usually humorous, as in a newspaper or periodical, symbolizing, satirizing, or caricaturing some action, subject, or person of popular interest.
- cartoonish — like a cartoon, esp in being one-dimensional, brightly coloured, or exaggerated
- cartoonist — A cartoonist is a person whose job is to draw cartoons for newspapers and magazines.
- case notes — the notes taken by a doctor, lawyer, or social worker about a case they are working on
- cashpoints — Plural form of cashpoint.
- cassations — Plural form of cassation.
- cast stone — a building component, such as a block or lintel, made from cast concrete with a facing that resembles natural stone
- castration — to remove the testes of; emasculate; geld.
- cat around — to search promiscuously for sexual partners; be promiscuous
- cataloging — Make a systematic list of (items of the same type).
- catalonian — sb from Catalonia
- catamounts — Plural form of catamount.
- cataphonic — catacoustic or of or relating to cataphonics
- catenaccio — an extremely defensive style of play
- catenation — the act or process of catenating.
- catholicon — a remedy for all ills; panacea
- causations — Plural form of causation.
- 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.
- cautioning — Present participle of caution.
- cavilation — Alternative spelling of cavillation.
- cavitation — the formation of vapour- or gas-filled cavities in a flowing liquid when tensile stress is superimposed on the ambient pressure
- cavortings — sexual frolics
- celadonite — a hydrous silicate of iron and potassium; an iron-rich soft mica.
- centration — The tendency to focus on one aspect of a situation and neglect others.
- centroidal — of or relating to a centroid
- cessations — Plural form of cessation.
- cestoidean — one of the Cestoda, a class of tapeworm
- ceylon tea — a tea from Ceylon (now Sri Lanka)
- 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 shot — cannon shot comprising two balls or half balls joined by a chain, much used formerly, esp in naval warfare to destroy rigging
- chalkstone — tophus
- chardonnet — (Louis Marie) Hilaire Bernigaud (ilɛr bɛrniɡo), Comte de. 1839–1924, French chemist and industrialist who produced rayon, the first artificial fibre