10-letter words containing a, r, c, e, o
- cotransfer — a simultaneous transfer of multiple genes
- counteract — To counteract something means to reduce its effect by doing something that produces an opposite effect.
- counterair — (military) Attacking the air force of an opposing power.
- counterman — a man who works on a lunch counter or behind the counter of a cafe
- counterwar — War waged in response to another war.
- courageous — Someone who is courageous shows courage.
- courantyne — a river in N South America, rising in S Guyana and flowing north to the Atlantic, forming the boundary between Guyana and Surinam. Length: 765 km (475 miles)
- coursemate — One who is taking the same academic course.
- courseware — computer software designed to be used in an educational course
- court case — a legal action
- courtesans — Plural form of courtesan.
- covariance — a measure of the association between two random variables, equal to the expected value of the product of the deviations from the mean of the two variables, and estimated by the sum of products of deviations from the sample mean for associated values of the two variables, divided by the number of sample points. Written as Cov (X, Y)
- covariates — Plural form of covariate.
- covenanter — a person upholding the National Covenant of 1638 or the Solemn League and Covenant of 1643 between Scotland and England to establish and defend Presbyterianism
- covenantor — a party who makes a promise and who is to perform the obligation expressed in a covenant
- coventrate — To devastate by heavy bombing.
- cover band — a band that makes or performs cover versions of songs
- coveralled — wearing coveralls
- cowardness — Synonym of cowardice.
- cowcatcher — a metal frame on the front of a locomotive to clear the track of animals or other obstructions
- cowfeteria — a calf feeder with multiple teats
- crab louse — a parasitic louse, Pthirus (or Phthirus) pubis, that infests the pubic region in humans
- crackhouse — a place where cocaine in the form of crack is bought, sold, and smoked.
- cradlesong — a lullaby
- crazy bone — funny bone
- cream soda — a carbonated soft drink flavoured with vanilla
- creational — Of, or pertaining to creation.
- cremations — Plural form of cremation.
- crematoria — a crematory.
- cretaceous — consisting of or resembling chalk
- crinoidean — of or relating to the Crinoidea, an order of echinoderms
- crop-eared — having the ears or hair cut short
- cross rate — A cross rate is an exchange rate of two currencies expressed in a third different currency, such as the exchange rate between the euro and the yuan expressed in yen.
- cross-fade — to fade in (one sound or picture source) as another is being faded out
- crossbeams — Plural form of crossbeam.
- crossfader — (music) A device consisting of two volume controls which control separate records, allowing the DJ to change the source of the sound between the records.
- croustades — Plural form of croustade.
- crownbeard — any of various American composite plants constituting the genus Verbesina, having clustered, usually yellow flower heads.
- ctenophora — the phylum comprising the comb jellies.
- curvaceous — If someone describes a woman as curvaceous, they think she is attractive because of the curves of her body.
- cyanometer — an instrument used for measuring the blueness of the sky
- dampcourse — a horizontal layer of impervious material in a brick wall, fairly close to the ground, to stop moisture rising
- dance form — the binary form used in most of the movements of the 18th-century suite.
- dancefloor — Alternative form of dance floor.
- deaconries — Plural form of deaconry.
- decaborane — (inorganic compound) The stable borane B10H14.
- decahedron — a solid figure having ten plane faces
- decamerous — having ten sections or partitions
- decanormal — (of a solution) containing ten equivalent weights of solute per liter of solution.
- decinormal — having one tenth of the strength of a standard solution