10-letter words containing a, n, t, r, o
- cautionary — A cautionary story or a cautionary note to a story is one that is intended to give a warning to people.
- cautioners — Plural form of cautioner.
- cavortings — sexual frolics
- centration — The tendency to focus on one aspect of a situation and neglect others.
- centroidal — of or relating to a centroid
- cfortran.h — (library) A transparent, machine independent interface between C and Fortran routines and global data, developed by Burkhard Burow at CERN. It provides macros which allow the C preprocessor to translate a simple description of a C (Fortran) routine or global data into a Fortran (C) interface. Version 2.6 runs on VAX/VMS/Ultrix, DECstation, Silicon Graphics, IBM RS/6000, Sun, Cray, Apollo, HP9000, LynxOS, f2c, NAG f90. cfortran.h was reviewed in RS/Magazine November 1992 and a user's experiences with cfortran.h are described in the Jan 93 issue of Computers in Physics.
- chadderton — a town in NW England, in Oldham unitary authority, in Greater Manchester. Pop: 33 001 (2001)
- chardonnet — (Louis Marie) Hilaire Bernigaud (ilɛr bɛrniɡo), Comte de. 1839–1924, French chemist and industrialist who produced rayon, the first artificial fibre
- charleston — The Charleston is a lively dance that was popular in the 1920s.
- chatterton — Thomas. 1752–70, British poet; author of spurious medieval verse and prose: he committed suicide at the age of 17
- chevrotain — any small timid ruminant artiodactyl mammal of the genera Tragulus and Hyemoschus, of S and SE Asia: family Tragulidae. They resemble rodents, and the males have long tusklike upper canines
- chitarrone — a large lute with a double neck in common use during the baroque period, esp in Italy
- chlorinate — to combine or treat (a substance) with chlorine
- chromatins — Plural form of chromatin.
- chrononaut — (science fiction, dated) A time-traveller.
- cineration — The reducing of anything to ashes by combustion; cinefaction.
- citronalis — lemon verbena.
- citronella — a tropical Asian grass, Cymbopogon (or Andropogon) nardus, with bluish-green lemon-scented leaves
- co-partner — a partner or associate, as in a business.
- coathanger — Alternative spelling of coat hanger.
- cocreation — Joint creation.
- cogenerate — To generate two forms of energy simultaneously.
- coloration — The coloration of an animal or a plant is the colours and patterns on it.
- combinator — (computer science) A lambda expression which has no free variables in it.
- commentary — A commentary is a description of an event that is broadcast on radio or television while the event is taking place.
- compearant — a person who appears in court
- con artist — A con artist is someone who tricks other people into giving them their money or property.
- concertina — A concertina is a musical instrument consisting of two end pieces with stiff paper or cloth that folds up between them. You play the concertina by pressing the buttons on the end pieces while moving them together and apart.
- concordant — being in agreement: harmonious
- concordats — Plural form of concordat.
- 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.
- conformant — In accordance with a set of specifications.
- confrontal — a confrontation
- congregant — Congregants are members of a congregation.
- congregate — When people congregate, they gather together and form a group.
- conjurator — a person who, through oath, is bound to others, esp a member of a group plotting a conspiracy
- connatural — having a similar nature or origin
- consecrate — When a building, place, or object is consecrated, it is officially declared to be holy. When a person is consecrated, they are officially declared to be a bishop.
- consectary — a consequence or conclusion
- conservant — having the quality of conserving or preserving
- conservate — (dated, transitive) To conserve.
- consortial — a combination of financial institutions, capitalists, etc., for carrying into effect some financial operation requiring large resources of capital.
- conspirant — planning a crime or harmful act in secret
- constrains — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of constrain.
- constraint — A constraint is something that limits or controls what you can do.
- contadoran — a member nation of the Contadora Group: action taken by the Contadorans.
- containers — Plural form of container.
- contraband — Contraband refers to goods that are taken into or out of a country illegally.
- contrabass — a member of any of various families of musical instruments that is lower in pitch than the bass
- contracept — to prevent the conception of (offspring).