10-letter words containing a, t, c, o
- covalently — the number of electron pairs that an atom can share with other atoms.
- covariates — Plural form of covariate.
- covenantal — an agreement, usually formal, between two or more persons to do or not do something specified.
- covenanted — an agreement, usually formal, between two or more persons to do or not do something specified.
- covenantee — the person to whom the promise in a covenant is made
- 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.
- cowboy hat — a wide-brimmed hat as worn by cowboys
- 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
- crack root — (security, jargon) To defeat the security system of a Unix machine and gain root privileges thereby. The sort of thing a cracker wants to do.
- craniotomy — any surgical incision into the skull, esp to expose the brain for neurosurgery
- crapshoots — Plural form of crapshoot.
- crash boat — a small, fast boat used in rescue operations, especially for airplane crashes.
- creational — Of, or pertaining to creation.
- cremations — Plural form of cremation.
- crematoria — a crematory.
- cretaceous — consisting of or resembling chalk
- cribration — the action of sifting, esp (in pharmacy) to separate finer particles of a drug from coarser particles
- crispation — the act of curling or state of being curled
- croissants — Plural form of croissant.
- 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 talk — interference in one channel from another or others
- crosshatch — to shade or hatch (forms, figures, etc) with two or more sets of parallel lines that cross one another
- crossmatch — (pathology) To test that the blood of a donor and recipient are compatible.
- 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.
- cruciation — (obsolete) torture; torment.
- 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
- crystallo- — crystal
- ctenophora — the phylum comprising the comb jellies.
- 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.
- cumulation — the act of cumulating; accumulation.
- cunctation — delay
- cunctatory — prone to delaying
- cup of tea — a favorite or well-suited thing, activity, etc.
- curatorial — Curatorial means relating to curators and their work.
- custodians — Plural form of custodian.
- custom car — a car that is built to the buyer's own specifications
- customable — subject to customs
- 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-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.