10-letter words containing a, l, c, r, t
- citronella — a tropical Asian grass, Cymbopogon (or Andropogon) nardus, with bluish-green lemon-scented leaves
- 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 court — a tennis court with a playing surface topped by a layer of crushed shale, brick, or stone
- 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.
- clistocarp — cleistothecium.
- 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
- clostridia — Plural form of clostridium.
- cloth ears — a deaf person
- cloth yard — a medieval unit of measure for cloth, fixed at 37 inches by Edward VI of England: also used as a length for longbow arrows
- clubmaster — the manager of a gentlemen's club
- co-orbital — noting or pertaining to two or more celestial bodies that share or almost share an orbit.
- coagulator — a substance that produces or aids coagulation.
- coalmaster — the owner of a colliery
- codetalker — A military communications specialist using codes based on an obscure language.
- cold start — the reloading of a program or operating system
- 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
- collar rot — a disease of plants, characterized by cankers that girdle the stem, caused by any of several fungi, as Alternaria solani.
- collarette — a woman's fur or lace collar
- collarstud — a stud that is used to attach a removable collar to a shirt
- collateral — Collateral is money or property which is used as a guarantee that someone will repay a loan.
- collimator — a small telescope attached to a larger optical instrument as an aid in fixing its line of sight
- coloration — The coloration of an animal or a plant is the colours and patterns on it.
- coloratura — Coloratura is very complicated and difficult music for a solo singer, especially in opera.
- 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
- colourcast — a colour television broadcast
- colourfast — A fabric that is colourfast has a colour that will not get paler when the fabric is washed or worn.
- colportage — the work of a colporteur.
- compilator — a compiler
- condylarth — any of the primitive ungulate mammals of the extinct order Condylarthra, from the Paleocene and Eocene epochs, having a slender body, low-crowned teeth, and five-toed feet, each toe ending in a small hoof.
- confrontal — a confrontation
- connatural — having a similar nature or origin
- consortial — a combination of financial institutions, capitalists, etc., for carrying into effect some financial operation requiring large resources of capital.
- contraflow — A contraflow is a situation in which vehicles travelling on a main road in one direction have to use lanes that are normally used by traffic travelling in the opposite direction, because the road is being repaired.
- contraltos — Plural form of contralto.
- contraplex — relating to the transmission of two messages in opposite directions simultaneously
- contrarily — in a perverse or obstinate manner
- copulatory — to engage in sexual intercourse.
- coral tree — any of various thorny, tropical trees of the leguminous genus Erythrina, having bright red flowers and reddish shiny seeds
- coralroots — Plural form of coralroot.