10-letter words containing a, t, c, o
- cutthroats — Plural form of cutthroat.
- cyanometer — an instrument used for measuring the blueness of the sky
- cyanopathy — (medicine) A disease in which the surface of the body turns blue, usually arising from a malformation of the heart, which causes an imperfect arterialization of the blood.
- cyanophyta — a phylum, or subkingdom, in the kingdom Monera, comprising the blue-green algae.
- cyanophyte — a former name for a cyanobacterium
- cyanotypes — Plural form of cyanotype.
- cyathiform — shaped like a drinking glass or cup, with a wider upper section
- cyclomatic — (mathematics) Used to describe the number of edges that must be removed from a graph to ensure that no graph cycle remains; equal to the number of edges, minus the number of nodes plus one.
- cystocarps — Plural form of cystocarp.
- cystograms — Plural form of cystogram.
- cytoclasis — destruction of cells.
- cytopathic — of or relating to cytopathy
- cytoplasms — Plural form of cytoplasm.
- cytoplasts — Plural form of cytoplast.
- cytostasis — arrest of cellular growth and division.
- cytostatic — having the capability to inhibit cell growth
- datacode i — (language) An early system used on the Datatron 200 series.
- dead stock — farm equipment
- deallocate — to set apart for a particular purpose; assign or allot: to allocate funds for new projects.
- death code — A routine whose job is to set everything in the computer - registers, memory, flags - to zero, including that portion of memory where it is running; its last act is to stomp on its own "store zero" instruction. Death code isn't very useful, but writing it is an interesting hacking challenge on architectures where the instruction set makes it possible, such as the PDP-8 or the Data General Nova. Perhaps the ultimate death code is on the TI 990 series, where all registers are actually in RAM, and the instruction "store immediate 0" has the opcode 0. The program counter will immediately wrap around core as many times as it can until a user hits HALT. Any empty memory location is death code. Worse, the manufacturer recommended use of this instruction in startup code (which would be in ROM and therefore survive).
- decalogist — a person who interprets and expounds on the Ten Commandments
- decastylos — a decastyle building, as a classical temple.
- decathlons — Plural form of decathlon.
- decimation — to destroy a great number or proportion of: The population was decimated by a plague.
- declarator — an action seeking to have some right, status, etc, judicially ascertained
- declinator — a piece of apparatus that establishes the measure of a plane's deviation from the prime vertical or the meridian
- decollated — Simple past tense and past participle of decollate.
- decollates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decollate.
- decollator — (computing) a machine that decollates (separates) the parts of multipart computer printout and discards the carbon paper.
- decolorant — able to decolour or bleach
- decolorate — to change or fade in colour
- decontract — (ambitransitive) To expand from a contracted state.
- decorating — the painting or wallpapering of a room, house, etc
- decoration — The decoration of a room is its furniture, wallpaper, and ornaments.
- decorative — Something that is decorative is intended to look pretty or attractive.
- decorators — Plural form of decorator.
- decreation — Destruction.
- decstation — (computer) A range of RISC based workstations manufactured by DEC.
- dedecorate — (obsolete, transitive) To bring to shame; to disgrace.
- dedication — A dedication is a message which is written at the beginning of a book, or a short announcement which is sometimes made before a play or piece of music is performed, as a sign of affection or respect for someone.
- dedicatory — of or as a dedication
- defalcator — A defaulter or embezzler.
- defecation — to void excrement from the bowels through the anus; have a bowel movement.
- deforciant — a person who wrongfully withholds something from someone by force
- demarcator — to determine or mark off the boundaries or limits of: to demarcate a piece of property.
- demicanton — either of the two parts of certain Swiss cantons
- democratic — A democratic country, government, or political system is governed by representatives who are elected by the people.
- deprecator — to express earnest disapproval of.
- desecrator — to divest of sacred or hallowed character or office.
- desiccator — any apparatus for drying milk, fruit, etc