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10-letter words containing a, l, o, c

  • clay flour — dried and pulverized clay.
  • clay stone — argillite.
  • 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
  • clearstory — clerestory
  • cleromancy — a divination involving dice-throwing or lot-casting
  • climograph — A chart that summarizes the climate of a place by superimposing a line graph representing average monthly temperature on a bar chart representing average monthly precipitation.
  • 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.
  • clipboards — Plural form of clipboard.
  • clistocarp — cleistothecium.
  • 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
  • clofibrate — a medication used in the treatment of heart disease
  • clog dance — a dance in which clogs are worn to beat out the rhythm
  • clonazepam — a medication used to treat conditions that involve seizures
  • close call — a narrow escape from danger
  • clostridia — Plural form of clostridium.
  • cloth beam — a roller, located at the front of a loom, on which woven material is wound after it leaves the breast beam.
  • 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
  • cloud base — the apparent lower surface of a cloud or cloud layer.
  • 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
  • cloudscape — a picturesque formation of clouds
  • cloverleaf — A cloverleaf is an arrangement of curved roads, resembling a four-leaf clover, that joins two main roads.
  • 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-orbital — noting or pertaining to two or more celestial bodies that share or almost share an orbit.
  • co-ordinal — belonging to the same order.
  • coach bolt — a large round-headed bolt used esp to secure wood to masonry
  • coachloads — Plural form of coachload.
  • coagulable — that can be coagulated
  • coagulants — Plural form of coagulant.
  • coagulases — Plural form of coagulase.
  • coagulated — Subject to coagulation.
  • coagulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of coagulate.
  • coagulator — a substance that produces or aids coagulation.
  • coal basin — a part of the earth's surface consisting of coal strata that slope down to a common centre
  • coal chute — an inclined channel or vertical passage down which coal may be dropped
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