10-letter words containing a, r, c, t
- carrington — Dora, known as Carrington. 1893–1932, British painter, engraver, and letter writer; a member of the Bloomsbury Group
- carrollton — city in NE Tex.: suburb of Dallas: pop. 110,000
- carrot fly — a dipterous insect, Psila rosae, that is a serious pest of carrots. The larvae tunnel into the root to feed
- carrot-top — a person with red hair
- cart horse — A cart horse is a large, powerful horse that is used to pull carts or farm machinery.
- cart track — a rough track or road in a rural area
- cartelized — Simple past tense and past participle of cartelize.
- carthamine — a yellow or red dye obtained from safflower
- carthorses — Plural form of carthorse.
- carthusian — a member of an austere monastic order founded by Saint Bruno in 1084 near Grenoble, France
- cartilages — Plural form of cartilage.
- cartograms — Plural form of cartogram.
- cartograph — the production of maps, including construction of projections, design, compilation, drafting, and reproduction.
- cartomancy — the telling of fortunes with playing cards
- cartoneros — Plural form of cartonero.
- cartonnage — The papyrus used to wrap mummies in ancient Egypt.
- cartonnier — an ornamental box for papers, usually for placing on a desk.
- cartooning — a sketch or drawing, usually humorous, as in a newspaper or periodical, symbolizing, satirizing, or caricaturing some action, subject, or person of popular interest.
- cartoonish — like a cartoon, esp in being one-dimensional, brightly coloured, or exaggerated
- cartoonist — A cartoonist is a person whose job is to draw cartoons for newspapers and magazines.
- cartophile — a cartophilist
- cartophily — the hobby of collecting cigarette cards
- cartouches — Plural form of cartouche.
- cartridges — Plural form of cartridge.
- cartwheels — Plural form of cartwheel.
- cartwright — a person who makes carts
- cash ratio — the ratio of cash on hand to total deposits that by law or custom commercial banks must maintain
- cash terms — the terms of a business transaction that is conducted in ready money
- caste mark — a mark on the skin that shows which caste a Hindu belongs to, esp a dot painted on the forehead
- castigator — to criticize or reprimand severely.
- castleford — a town in N England, in Wakefield unitary authority, West Yorkshire on the River Aire. Pop: 37 525 (2001)
- castmember — A member of a theatrical cast.
- castor oil — Castor oil is a thick yellow oil that is obtained from the seeds of the castor oil plant. It has a very unpleasant taste and in former times was used as a medicine.
- castrating — Present participle of castrate.
- castration — to remove the testes of; emasculate; geld.
- castratism — The practice of prepubescently castrating male humans as to preserve their alto or soprano voices.
- castrators — to remove the testes of; emasculate; geld.
- castratory — of or relating to castration
- castratrix — (chiefly, used in philosophy, or, psychoanalysis) A female who castrates (either literally or metaphorically).
- cat around — to search promiscuously for sexual partners; be promiscuous
- cat litter — absorbent material, often in a granular form, that is used to line a receptacle in which a domestic cat can urinate and defecate indoors
- cat-harpin — any of a number of short ropes or rods for gathering in shrouds near their tops.
- catalogers — Plural form of cataloger.
- cataloguer — One who catalogues.
- catamarans — Plural form of catamaran.
- cataphoric — the use of a word or phrase to refer to a following word or group of words, as the use of the phrase as follows.
- cataphract — a defensive armour, often made of link mail, used for the entire body
- cataracted — a descent of water over a steep surface; a waterfall, especially one of considerable size.
- catarrhine — (of apes and Old World monkeys) having the nostrils set close together and opening to the front of the face
- catch crop — a quick-growing crop planted between two regular crops grown in consecutive seasons, or between two rows of regular crops in the same season