10-letter words containing a, d, i, c, t
- backdating — Present participle of backdate.
- backlisted — Simple past tense and past participle of backlist.
- bandicoots — Plural form of bandicoot.
- bifurcated — divided into two branches.
- bird-watch — to identify wild birds and observe their actions and habits in their natural habitat as a recreation.
- black diet — deprivation of all food and water as a punishment, often leading to death.
- blastodisc — the blastula that forms as a flattened sphere on top of the yolk in the yolk-laden eggs of birds and reptiles.
- bradytelic — of or relating to evolution at a rate slower than the standard for a given group of plants or animals.
- breadstick — bread baked in a long thin crisp stick
- brecciated — Petrology. to form as breccia.
- calibrated — marked with units
- candidated — a person who seeks an office, honor, etc.: a candidate for governor.
- candidates — Plural form of candidate.
- cantonized — canton (def 7).
- captivated — Simple past tense and past participle of captivate.
- card trick — an illusory feat performed with playing cards
- cardiotomy — (surgery) The procedure of making an incision in the heart.
- carotenoid — any of a group of red or yellow pigments, including carotenes, found in plants and certain animal tissues
- cartelized — Simple past tense and past participle of cartelize.
- cartridges — Plural form of cartridge.
- cash audit — an audit confined to cash transactions for a prescribed period, for the purpose of determining the amount of cash on hand or on deposit in a bank.
- cast aside — If you cast aside someone or something, you get rid of them because they are no longer necessary or useful to you.
- castigated — Simple past tense and past participle of castigate.
- catechised — Simple past tense and past participle of catechise.
- catechized — Simple past tense and past participle of catechize.
- catostomid — (zoology) Any member of the Catostomidae.
- cauterised — Simple past tense and past participle of cauterise.
- cauterized — Simple past tense and past participle of cauterize.
- cedar city — a town in SW Utah.
- celadonite — a hydrous silicate of iron and potassium; an iron-rich soft mica.
- centigrade — Centigrade is a scale for measuring temperature, in which water freezes at 0 degrees and boils at 100 degrees. It is represented by the symbol °C.
- 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
- cestoidean — one of the Cestoda, a class of tapeworm
- child seat — a type of child restraint consisting of a seat with safety features
- child star — a child who attains celebrity status
- chloridate — to expose to or prepare with a chloride
- chromatids — Plural form of chromatid.
- chromatoid — Resembling chromatin.
- cicatrized — Simple past tense and past participle of cicatrize.
- cingulated — Having a cingulum.
- circulated — to move in a circle or circuit; move or pass through a circuit back to the starting point: Blood circulates throughout the body.
- cladistics — a method of grouping animals that makes use of lines of descent rather than structural similarities
- claudicant — (medicine) limping.
- climatised — to acclimate to a new environment.
- climatized — to acclimate to a new environment.
- clostridia — Plural form of clostridium.
- cnidoblast — any of the cells of a coelenterate that contain nematocysts
- coatbridge — an industrial town in central Scotland, in North Lanarkshire. Pop: 41 170 (2001)
- coated pit — a clathrin-lined depression in the outer surface of a cell membrane, formed of receptors and their specific ligands, that becomes a coated vesicle upon endocytosis.