10-letter words containing a, l, n, c
- claymation — the techniques of animation applied to clay models
- claystones — argillite.
- clean room — an environment, typically used in manufacturing or scientific research, in which environmental contaminants are kept to an absolute minimum
- clean wool — wool that has been scoured to remove wax
- clean-tech — using clean technology
- cleanskins — Plural form of cleanskin.
- clearances — Plural form of clearance.
- clearwings — Plural form of clearwing.
- cleggmania — the brief surge in popularity for the leader of the Liberal Democrat party, Nick Clegg, after a series of live televised debates preceding the 2010 British general election
- clemenceau — Georges Eugène Benjamin (ʒɔrʒ œʒɛn bɛ̃ʒamɛ̃). 1841–1929, French statesman; prime minister of France (1906–09; 1917–20); negotiated the Treaty of Versailles (1919)
- cleromancy — a divination involving dice-throwing or lot-casting
- cliff-hang — to wait eagerly for the outcome of a suspenseful situation or contest.
- clinically — pertaining to a clinic.
- clinicians — Plural form of clinician.
- clinograph — (in mining, construction, etc.) an instrument that records the deviation of boreholes or the like from the vertical.
- clinomania — An excessive desire to remain in bed.
- clinostats — Plural form of clinostat.
- cloak fern — a type of fern, genus Notholaena, found in dry, rocky areas of temperate and tropical America, often used as an ornamental.
- clog dance — a dance in which clogs are worn to beat out the rhythm
- clonazepam — a medication used to treat conditions that involve seizures
- cluny lace — a strong heavy silk and cotton bobbin lace made at Cluny or elsewhere
- cnidoblast — any of the cells of a coelenterate that contain nematocysts
- co-channel — denoting or relating to a radio transmission that is on the same frequency channel as another
- co-ordinal — belonging to the same order.
- coagulants — Plural form of coagulant.
- coal basin — a part of the earth's surface consisting of coal strata that slope down to a common centre
- coal miner — A coal miner is a person whose job is mining coal.
- coalescent — to grow together or into one body: The two lakes coalesced into one.
- coalescing — Present participle of coalesce.
- coalitions — Plural form of coalition.
- coastlands — Plural form of coastland.
- coastlines — Plural form of coastline.
- coelacanth — a primitive marine bony fish of the genus Latimeria (subclass Crossopterygii), having fleshy limblike pectoral fins and occurring off the coast of E Africa: thought to be extinct until a living specimen was discovered in 1938
- cognisable — Alternative form of cognizable.
- cognizable — perceptible
- cognizably — In a cognizable manner.
- cognominal — Of or relating to a cognomen.
- colcannons — Plural form of colcannon.
- cold-drawn — (of metal wire, bars, etc) having been drawn unheated through a die to reduce dimensions, toughen, and improve surface finish
- colemanite — a colourless or white glassy mineral consisting of hydrated calcium borate in monoclinic crystalline form. It occurs with and is a source of borax. Formula: Ca2B6O11.5H2O
- collapsing — Present participle of collapse.
- collapsion — (archaic) collapse.
- collarbone — Your collarbones are the two long bones which run from throat to your shoulders.
- collations — Plural form of collation.
- collegians — Plural form of collegian.
- colliquant — capable of liquefaction or dissolution
- collonades — Plural form of collonade.
- collophane — a massive, cryptocrystalline variety of apatite that is the principal component of phosphate rock and fossil bone.
- colocating — Present participle of colocate.
- colocation — Alternative spelling of collocation.