10-letter words containing a, t, c, o
- jelly coat — an ovum-produced glycoprotein that causes adhesion of sperm to the ovum; fertilizin.
- job action — any means, as a work slowdown, of organized protest or pressure by employees to win some goal or gain from their employers.
- jockstraps — Plural form of jockstrap.
- jocularity — the state or quality of being jocular.
- john cabot — John (Giovanni Caboto) c1450–98? Italian navigator in the service of England: discoverer of North American mainland 1497.
- judication — the act of judging
- judicatory — of or relating to judgment or the administration of justice; judiciary: judicatory power.
- junctional — an act of joining; combining.
- kaolinitic — Of or relating to kaolinite.
- karyotypic — Of or pertaining to karyotypes.
- kick about — to strike with the foot or feet: to kick the ball; to kick someone in the shins.
- kleptocrat — a government official who is a thief or exploiter.
- klootchman — a North American Indian woman
- knob latch — a latch having a spring bolt controlled by a knob on one or both sides.
- knockabout — Nautical. any of various fore-and-aft-rigged sailing vessels having a single jib bent to a stay from the stemhead, no bowsprit being used: usually rigged as a sloop.
- laccoliths — Plural form of laccolith.
- laceration — the result of lacerating; a rough, jagged tear.
- lacrimator — a chemical substance that causes the shedding of tears, as tear gas.
- lactogenic — stimulating lactation.
- lactometer — an instrument for determining the specific gravity of milk.
- lactoscope — an optical device for determining the amount of cream in milk.
- lactosuria — the presence of lactose in the urine
- laeotropic — oriented or coiled in a leftward direction, as a left-spiraling snail shell.
- lanceolate — shaped like the head of a lance.
- latch hook — a handheld tool similar to a latch needle, used for drawing loops of yarn through canvas or similar material to make rugs and the like.
- latch onto — a device for holding a door, gate, or the like, closed, consisting basically of a bar falling or sliding into a catch, groove, hole, etc.
- latecomers — Plural form of latecomer.
- latticinio — an opaque, white glass first produced in Venice during the Renaissance, often used in thread form to decorate clear glass pieces.
- launceston — a city on N Tasmania.
- law courts — a body which adjudicates legal disputes and attempts to administer justice in accordance with the law
- lectionary — a book or a list of lections for reading in a divine service.
- leucoblast — an immature leukocyte.
- leucopathy — (dated) albinism.
- leucoplast — a colorless plastid in the cells of roots, storage organs, and underground stems, serving as a point around which starch forms.
- lithoclast — an instrument used to break up bladder stones
- lithomancy — Divination with the use of precious or semi-precious stones, gemstones, or normal stones by either interpreting the light they reflect (crystallomancy), or how they fall (sortilege).
- local time — the time based on the meridian through a specific place, as a city, in contrast to that of the time zone within which the place is located; the time in a specific place as compared to that of another place to the east or west.
- localities — Plural form of locality.
- locational — a place of settlement, activity, or residence: This town is a good location for a young doctor.
- lockmaster — one in charge of a canal lock
- loculament — (botany) The cell of a pericarp in which the seed is lodged.
- logic gate — gate1 (def 16b).
- logicality — according to or agreeing with the principles of logic: a logical inference.
- logistical — of or relating to logistics.
- long-coats — dress-like garments formerly worn by a baby
- lord acton — Lord (John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron) 1834–1902, English historian.
- lorication — the act of covering with a protective coating
- lose caste — to lose social status or position
- lose track — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- lost cause — a cause that has been defeated or whose defeat is inevitable.