10-letter words containing a, c, t, s, n, o
- catamounts — Plural form of catamount.
- causations — Plural form of causation.
- cautioners — Plural form of cautioner.
- cavortings — sexual frolics
- cessations — Plural form of cessation.
- cestoidean — one of the Cestoda, a class of tapeworm
- 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
- charleston — The Charleston is a lively dance that was popular in the 1920s.
- chemonasty — the nastic movement of a plant in response to a chemical stimulus
- chromatins — Plural form of chromatin.
- cismontane — on this (the writer's or speaker's) side of the mountains, esp the Alps
- citronalis — lemon verbena.
- clay stone — argillite.
- claystones — argillite.
- clinostats — Plural form of clinostat.
- cnidoblast — any of the cells of a coelenterate that contain nematocysts
- coagulants — Plural form of coagulant.
- coalescent — to grow together or into one body: The two lakes coalesced into one.
- coalitions — Plural form of coalition.
- coastlands — Plural form of coastland.
- coastlines — Plural form of coastline.
- coetaneous — of the same age or period
- collations — Plural form of collation.
- combatants — a nation engaged in active fighting with enemy forces.
- communitas — the sense of sharing and intimacy that develops among persons who experience liminality as a group.
- compensate — To compensate someone for money or things that they have lost means to pay them money or give them something to replace that money or those things.
- complaints — A statement that a situation is unsatisfactory or unacceptable.
- con artist — A con artist is someone who tricks other people into giving them their money or property.
- con maesta — majestically (used as a musical direction).
- conclavist — either of two persons who attend upon a cardinal at a conclave, one usually being an ecclesiastical secretary and the other a personal servant.
- concordats — Plural form of concordat.
- condensate — a substance formed by condensation, such as a liquid from a vapour
- confessant — a person who makes a confession
- confidants — a close friend or associate to whom secrets are confided or with whom private matters and problems are discussed.
- confiscate — If you confiscate something from someone, you take it away from them, usually as a punishment.
- conjugates — Plural form of conjugate.
- connascent — born, produced, or growing simultaneously
- connations — Plural form of connation.
- connotates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of connotate.
- 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
- consentual — involving or carried out by mutual consent: a consentual divorce.
- conservant — having the quality of conserving or preserving
- conservate — (dated, transitive) To conserve.
- consistant — Misspelling of consistent.
- consociate — to enter into or bring into friendly association
- consonants — Phonetics. (in English articulation) a speech sound produced by occluding with or without releasing (p, b; t, d; k, g), diverting (m, n, ng), or obstructing (f, v; s, z, etc.) the flow of air from the lungs (opposed to vowel). (in a syllable) any sound other than the sound of greatest sonority in the syllable, as b, r, and g in brig (opposed to sonant). Compare vowel (def 1b). (in linguistic function) a concept empirically determined as a phonological element in structural contrast with vowel, as the b of be, the w of we, the y, s, and t of yeast, etc.
- consortial — a combination of financial institutions, capitalists, etc., for carrying into effect some financial operation requiring large resources of capital.
- conspirant — planning a crime or harmful act in secret