10-letter words containing a, r, c, t
- coastguard — A coastguard is an official who watches the sea near a coast in order to get help for sailors when they need it and to stop illegal activities.
- coastwards — in the direction of the coast
- coat dress — a lightweight button-through garment that can be worn either as a dress or as a coat
- coatbridge — an industrial town in central Scotland, in North Lanarkshire. Pop: 41 170 (2001)
- coathanger — Alternative spelling of coat hanger.
- coatsworth — Elizabeth, 1893–1986, U.S. writer, especially of children's books.
- coauthored — one of two or more joint authors.
- cockatrice — a legendary monster, part snake and part cock, that could kill with a glance
- cockteaser — a girl or woman who purposely excites or arouses a male sexually but then refuses to have intercourse.
- cocreation — Joint creation.
- codetalker — A military communications specialist using codes based on an obscure language.
- cofavorite — a joint favourite
- cogenerate — To generate two forms of energy simultaneously.
- coimbatore — an industrial city in SW India, in W Tamil Nadu. Pop: 923 085 (2001)
- cold start — the reloading of a program or operating system
- cold-water — designating a room, apartment, etc. that is not provided with hot water or, sometimes, a bathroom
- coldstream — a town in SE Scotland, in Scottish Borders on the English border: the Coldstream Guards were formed here (1660). Pop: 1813 (2001)
- coleoptera — the largest order in the animal kingdom; the beetles
- collar rot — a disease of plants, characterized by cankers that girdle the stem, caused by any of several fungi, as Alternaria solani.
- collarette — a woman's fur or lace collar
- collarstud — a stud that is used to attach a removable collar to a shirt
- collateral — Collateral is money or property which is used as a guarantee that someone will repay a loan.
- collimator — a small telescope attached to a larger optical instrument as an aid in fixing its line of sight
- coloration — The coloration of an animal or a plant is the colours and patterns on it.
- coloratura — Coloratura is very complicated and difficult music for a solo singer, especially in opera.
- colorature — (music) An elaborate melody, particularly in vocal music and especially in operatic singing of the 18th and 19th centuries, with runs, trills, leaps, etc.
- colorectal — of or relating to the colon and rectum
- colourcast — a colour television broadcast
- colourfast — A fabric that is colourfast has a colour that will not get paler when the fabric is washed or worn.
- colportage — the work of a colporteur.
- combat car — a small armoured car
- combinator — (computer science) A lambda expression which has no free variables in it.
- comiserate — Obsolete spelling of commiserate.
- commentary — A commentary is a description of an event that is broadcast on radio or television while the event is taking place.
- commutator — a device used to reverse the direction of flow of an electric current
- compactors — Plural form of compactor.
- compacture — an act of joining or bringing into proximity
- comparator — any instrument used to measure a property of a system by comparing it with a standard system
- compatriot — Your compatriots are people from your own country.
- compearant — a person who appears in court
- compilator — a compiler
- compotator — a person who drinks or tipples with another.
- computator — a person who computes or calculates
- 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