10-letter words containing a, o, c
- auto court — motel.
- autochrome — a material once used for color photography, consisting of a photographic emulsion applied over a multicolored screen of minute starch grains dyed red, green, and blue-violet.
- autochthon — one of the earliest known inhabitants of any country; aboriginal
- autoclaved — Simple past tense and past participle of autoclave.
- autoclaves — Plural form of autoclave.
- autocratic — An autocratic person or organization has complete power and makes decisions without asking anyone else's advice.
- autodidact — a person who is self-taught
- autoecious — (of parasites, esp the rust fungi) completing the entire life cycle on a single species of host
- autoerotic — producing sexual excitement or pleasure without association with another person or external stimulation.
- automatics — Plural form of automatic.
- autonoetic — Of or relating to autonoesis.
- autonomics — the study of self-regulating systems for process control
- autophobic — Of or pertaining to autophobia.
- autoscopic — of or relating to an out-of-body experience
- autotropic — Growing in a straight line.
- auxocardia — enlargement of the heart, as by hypertrophy or dilatation.
- auxochrome — a group of atoms that can be attached to a chromogen to convert it into a dye
- avaricious — An avaricious person is very greedy for money or possessions.
- avenaceous — belonging to or of the nature of oats or oat grasses
- avocations — Plural form of avocation.
- avoidances — Plural form of avoidance.
- avouchable — able to be avouched
- avouchment — The act of avouching.
- axinomancy — prediction of the future using the head of an axe or hatchet
- axiomatics — the study of axioms
- axoplasmic — of or relating to the axoplasm
- ayers rock — a conspicuous red monadnock in central Australia, in the SW Northern Territory: tourist attraction. 1143 feet (348 meters) high.
- baby coach — a baby carriage.
- bachelor's — a person who has been awarded a bachelor's degree.
- back bacon — lean bacon from the back of a pig's loin
- back cover — the back part of the cover of a book or magazine
- back float — a floating position on one's back with arms extended out to the sides and face upward.
- back focus — the distance between the back surface of a lens and the focal plane when the lens is focused at infinity.
- back forty — remote, usually uncultivated acreage on a large piece of land, as on a farm or ranch.
- back order — an order to be filled when stock is renewed
- back quote — (character) "`" ASCII code 96. Common names: left quote; left single quote; open quote; ITU-T: grave accent; grave. Rare: backprime; INTERCAL: backspark; unapostrophe; birk; blugle; back tick; back glitch; push; ITU-T: opening single quotation mark; quasiquote. Back quote is used in Unix shells to invoke command substitution.
- back score — a line at each end of the rink parallel to and equidistant from the foot score and the sweeping score.
- back story — background information provided, often in narrative form, to give help in understanding something, as the behavior of a character in a film
- back tooth — a tooth in the back of your jaw
- back vowel — a vowel whose sound is produced in the back of the mouth or the throat
- back-cloth — backdrop (def 1).
- back-order — to treat as a back order: We have to back-order your sofa until the new fabric arrives.
- backblocks — bush or remote farming area far distant from city amenities
- backboards — Plural form of backboard.
- backcloths — Plural form of backcloth.
- backcombed — Simple past tense and past participle of backcomb.
- backcourts — Plural form of backcourt.
- backend-to — in a reversed position; backward.
- backgammon — Backgammon is a game for two people, played on a board marked with long triangles. Each player has 15 wooden or plastic discs. The players throw dice and move the discs around the board.
- background — Your background is the kind of family you come from and the kind of education you have had. It can also refer to such things as your social and racial origins, your financial status, or the type of work experience that you have.