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10-letter words containing a, t, c, o

  • chlorinate — to combine or treat (a substance) with chlorine
  • choanocyte — any of the flagellated cells in sponges that maintain a flow of water through the body. A collar of protoplasm surrounds the base of the flagellum
  • chocolates — Plural form of chocolate.
  • chocolatey — a preparation of the seeds of cacao, roasted, husked, and ground, often sweetened and flavored, as with vanilla.
  • choirstall — one of the benches for the choir of a church, cathedral, etc
  • chromatics — the science of colour
  • chromatids — Plural form of chromatid.
  • chromatins — Plural form of chromatin.
  • chromatism — chromatic aberration
  • chromatoid — Resembling chromatin.
  • chromatype — a procedure in photography that uses photographic paper that is made reactive to light by the use of a salt of chromium
  • chrononaut — (science fiction, dated) A time-traveller.
  • ciguatoxin — a toxin found in seafood
  • cineration — The reducing of anything to ashes by combustion; cinefaction.
  • circulator — a person who moves from place to place.
  • cismontane — on this (the writer's or speaker's) side of the mountains, esp the Alps
  • cistaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Cistaceae, a family of shrubby or herbaceous plants that includes the rockroses
  • citalopram — an antidepressant drug, C 20 H 22 BrFN 20 , of the SSRI class, that acts by prolonging the action of serotonin in the brain.
  • citational — pertaining to citation
  • citronalis — lemon verbena.
  • citronella — a tropical Asian grass, Cymbopogon (or Andropogon) nardus, with bluish-green lemon-scented leaves
  • clactonian — one of the Lower Palaeolithic cultures found in England, characterized by the use of chopper tools
  • clapometer — a device that measures applause
  • clay court — a tennis court with a playing surface topped by a layer of crushed shale, brick, or stone
  • clay stone — argillite.
  • claymation — the techniques of animation applied to clay models
  • claystones — argillite.
  • clearstory — clerestory
  • clinostats — Plural form of clinostat.
  • clistocarp — cleistothecium.
  • clock rate — (processor, benchmark)   The fundamental rate in cycles per second at which a computer performs its most basic operations such as adding two numbers or transfering a value from one register to another. The clock rate of a computer is normally determined by the frequency of a crystal. The original IBM PC, circa 1981, had a clock rate of 4.77 MHz (almost five million cycles/second). As of 1995, Intel's Pentium chip runs at 100 MHz (100 million cycles/second). The clock rate of a computer is only useful for providing comparisons between computer chips in the same processor family. An IBM PC with an Intel 486 CPU running at 50 MHz will be about twice as fast as one with the same CPU, memory and display running at 25 MHz. However, there are many other factors to consider when comparing different computers. Clock rate should not be used when comparing different computers or different processor families. Rather, some benchmark should be used. Clock rate can be very misleading, since the amount of work different computer chips can do in one cycle varies. For example, RISC CPUs tend to have simpler instructions than CISC CPUs (but higher clock rates) and pipelined processors execute more than one instruction per cycle.
  • clofibrate — a medication used in the treatment of heart disease
  • clostridia — Plural form of clostridium.
  • cloth beam — a roller, located at the front of a loom, on which woven material is wound after it leaves the breast beam.
  • cloth ears — a deaf person
  • cloth yard — a medieval unit of measure for cloth, fixed at 37 inches by Edward VI of England: also used as a length for longbow arrows
  • cnidoblast — any of the cells of a coelenterate that contain nematocysts
  • co-captain — a joint captain
  • co-operate — If you co-operate with someone, you work with them or help them for a particular purpose. You can also say that two people co-operate.
  • co-orbital — noting or pertaining to two or more celestial bodies that share or almost share an orbit.
  • co-partner — a partner or associate, as in a business.
  • co-payment — payment required of an insured person for that portion of medical expenses not paid by the insurance company; specif., a fixed fee required for each prescription, visit to a doctor, etc.
  • coacervate — either of two liquid phases that may separate from a hydrophilic sol, each containing a different concentration of a dispersed solid
  • coach bolt — a large round-headed bolt used esp to secure wood to masonry
  • coach trip — any tour, journey, or voyage made by bus
  • coactivate — To cause, or to undergo coactivation.
  • coactivity — acting together.
  • coadjacent — something that is adjacent to another thing in experience or thought
  • coadjutant — cooperating
  • coadjutors — Plural form of coadjutor.
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