10-letter words containing a, l, k
- clankingly — With a clanking sound.
- clap skate — a type of speed skate with a blade attached at the heel by a hinge, allowing the full length of the blade to remain on the ice for a longer time and increasing skating speed.
- clark cell — a cell having a mercury cathode surrounded by a paste of mercuric sulphate and a zinc anode in a saturated solution of zinc sulphate. Formerly used as a standard, its emf is 1.4345 volts
- clark fork — river flowing from W Mont. northwest into Pend Oreille Lake in N Ida.: c. 300 mi (483 km)
- clarksburg — a city in N West Virginia, on the Monongahela River.
- clarksdale — a city in NW Mississippi.
- class book — a book published by members of a school or college class, containing pictures of students and teachers, an account of student activities, etc.
- class mark — a value within a class interval, esp its midpoint or the nearest integral value, used to represent the interval for computational convenience
- class rank — a student's rank among others of the same year based on a numeric grade point average
- cleanskins — Plural form of cleanskin.
- click bait — Click bait is something on a website that encourages people to click on a link.
- click-wrap — a license agreement that appears as an icon during the setup of a software program or online service and must be clicked on to agree to its terms.
- cloak fern — a type of fern, genus Notholaena, found in dry, rocky areas of temperate and tropical America, often used as an ornamental.
- cloak-room — a room in which outer garments, hats, umbrellas, etc., may be left temporarily, as in a club, restaurant, etc.; checkroom.
- cloakmaker — Someone who makes cloaks.
- cloakrooms — Plural form of cloakroom.
- clock card — a card used by employees to register their time of arrival at, and time of departure from, their workplace
- clock face — the dial of an analogue clock, marked with divisions representing units of time
- clock jack — jack1 (def 19).
- 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.
- clockmaker — a person who makes or mends clocks, watches, etc
- cloud peak — a mountain in N central Wyoming: highest peak in the Bighorn Mountains. 13,175 feet (4018 meters).
- cloud rack — a group of moving clouds
- club steak — a small steak that is cut from the short loin of beef and contains no part of the tenderloin
- coal-black — of a very dark black
- cockabully — any of several small freshwater fish of New Zealand
- cockalorum — a self-important little man
- cockatiels — Plural form of cockatiel.
- cockleboat — cockboat.
- codetalker — A military communications specialist using codes based on an obscure language.
- codewalker — (programming, tool) A program component that analyses other programs. Compilers have codewalkers in their front ends; so do cross-reference generators and some database front ends. Other utility programs that try to do too much with source code may turn into codewalkers. As in "This new 'vgrind' feature would require a codewalker to implement."
- coral pink — a light to medium yellowish-pink color.
- cornflakes — a breakfast cereal made from toasted maize, eaten with milk, sugar, etc
- cornstalks — Plural form of cornstalk.
- cracklings — Plural form of crackling.
- cradlewalk — a garden walkway covered by arched trees
- craigfluke — a common name for the grey sole fish Glyptocephalus cynoglossus
- craterlike — Resembling a crater or some aspect of one.
- creakingly — With a creaking sound.
- cross talk — interference in one channel from another or others
- crosswalks — Plural form of crosswalk.
- cycle rack — a series of metal frameworks standing on the ground for holding bicycles upright
- daggerlike — resembling a dagger in shape or form
- dark cloud — grey clouds threatening rain
- dark slide — Also called draw slide. a black plastic, metal, or fabric sheet that is inserted into a film holder to protect the film from light.
- dark-field — of or relating to the illumination of an object by which it is seen, through a microscope, as bright against a dark background.
- deadlocked — If a dispute or series of negotiations is deadlocked, no agreement can be reached because neither side will give in at all. You can also say that the people involved are deadlocked.
- deal-maker — A deal-maker is someone in business or politics who makes deals.
- dealmakers — Plural form of dealmaker.
- dealmaking — The making of commercial, financial or political deals.