10-letter words containing a, r, c, t
- crosspatch — a peevish bad-tempered person
- crotalaria — a genus of plants and shrubs of the Fabaceae family with pods in which the seeds rattle
- croustades — Plural form of croustade.
- crown wart — a disease of alfalfa and clover, characterized by galls around the base of the stem, caused by several fungi of the genus Urophlyctis.
- cruciality — involving an extremely important decision or result; decisive; critical: a crucial experiment.
- cruciating — Present participle of cruciate.
- cruciation — (obsolete) torture; torment.
- crude tank — A crude tank is a large vessel for crude oil.
- crustacean — A crustacean is an animal with a hard shell and several pairs of legs, which usually lives in water. Crabs, lobsters, and shrimps are crustaceans.
- crustation — the action of forming a crust
- cryostasis — the deep-freezing of human bodies or other organisms at death; cryonics.
- cryostatic — of or relating to a cryostat
- cryptogams — Plural form of cryptogam.
- cryptogamy — the state of being a cryptogam
- cryptogram — a secret symbol
- crystalise — Alternative spelling of from=non-Oxford British spelling.
- crystalize — (rare) alternative spelling of crystallize.
- crystallo- — crystal
- ct scanner — computerized tomography scanner: an X-ray machine that can produce stereographic images
- ctenophora — the phylum comprising the comb jellies.
- cub master — a man who organizes a pack of cub scouts
- cucurbital — of or relating to the genus Cucurbitaceae
- cultivator — A cultivator is a tool or machine which is used to break up the earth or to remove weeds, for example in a garden or field.
- culturable — able to be cultivated or cultured
- culturally — of or relating to culture or cultivation.
- culvertage — the forfeiture of a person's property, thereby reducing him to the status of a villain
- cunctatory — prone to delaying
- curability — capable of being cured.
- curateship — the office or position of a curate
- curatorial — Curatorial means relating to curators and their work.
- curettages — Plural form of curettage.
- curtailing — Present participle of curtail.
- curtain-up — the moment when the curtain is raised and a play or similar show begins
- curtaining — Present participle of curtain.
- curtilages — Plural form of curtilage.
- curtmantle — ("Henry the Saint") 973–1024, king of Germany 1002–24 and emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1014–24.
- curvatures — Plural form of curvature.
- custom car — a car that is built to the buyer's own specifications
- cut across — If an issue or problem cuts across the division between two or more groups of people, it affects or matters to people in all the groups.
- cut square — a stamp cut from the envelope on which it has been printed so as to leave a square margin.
- cut-throat — If you describe a situation as cut-throat, you mean that the people or companies involved all want success and do not care if they harm each other in getting it.
- cutis vera — cutis.
- cutter bar — Also called sickle bar. (in a mower, binder, or combine) a bar with triangular guards along which a knife or blade runs.
- cutthroats — Plural form of cutthroat.
- cutty sark — a three-masted merchant clipper built in Dumbarton, Scotland in 1869, now kept as a museum ship at Greenwich, London; badly damaged by a fire in 2007; restored then reopened in 2012
- cyanometer — an instrument used for measuring the blueness of the sky
- cyathiform — shaped like a drinking glass or cup, with a wider upper section
- cybercasts — Plural form of cybercast.
- cyma recta — a cyma whose concave part projects beyond the convex part.
- cystinuria — a condition in which excessive levels of cystine are present in the urine