10-letter words containing a, t, c, o
- racked out — a framework of bars, wires, or pegs on which articles are arranged or deposited: a clothes rack; a luggage rack.
- raconteurs — Plural form of raconteur.
- raconteuse — a woman who is skilled in relating stories and anecdotes interestingly.
- radication — the act or process of taking root
- radiolytic — the dissociation of molecules by ionizing radiation.
- radiotoxic — causing radiation sickness.
- re-contact — the act or state of touching; a touching or meeting, as of two things or people.
- re-enactor — a person who re-enacts something
- reaccustom — to familiarize by custom or use; habituate: to accustom oneself to cold weather.
- reactional — a reverse movement or tendency; an action in a reverse direction or manner.
- reallocate — to set apart for a particular purpose; assign or allot: to allocate funds for new projects.
- recitation — an act of reciting.
- recitativo — recitative2 .
- recontract — an agreement between two or more parties for the doing or not doing of something specified.
- recreation — the act of creating anew.
- recreatory — refreshment by means of some pastime, agreeable exercise, or the like.
- recusation — the act of recusing a judge
- redecorate — to furnish or adorn with something ornamental or becoming; embellish: to decorate walls with murals.
- reforecast — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- refraction — Physics. the change of direction of a ray of light, sound, heat, or the like, in passing obliquely from one medium into another in which its wave velocity is different.
- refractory — hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient: a refractory child.
- relocation — to move (a building, company, etc.) to a different location: plans to relocate the firm to Houston.
- replicator — Any construct that acts to produce copies of itself; this could be a living organism, an idea (see meme), a program (see quine, worm, wabbit, fork bomb, and virus), a pattern in a cellular automaton (see life), or (speculatively) a robot or nanobot. It is even claimed by some that Unix and C are the symbiotic halves of an extremely successful replicator; see Unix conspiracy.
- retraction — the act of retracting or the state of being retracted.
- revocation — the act of revoking; annulment.
- revocatory — revoking or tending to revoke; containing or expressing a revocation
- rheostatic — an adjustable resistor so constructed that its resistance may be changed without opening the circuit in which it is connected, thereby controlling the current in the circuit.
- rhetorical — used for, belonging to, or concerned with mere style or effect.
- rhinotheca — the covering of the upper part of the beak in birds
- rhotacized — to change (a sound) to an (r); subject to rhotacism.
- rio cuarto — a city in central Argentina.
- rock plant — a plant found among rocks or in rock gardens.
- rom. cath. — Roman Catholic
- root canal — Also called pulp canal. the root portion of the pulp cavity.
- root cause — origin
- rotorcraft — a rotary-wing aircraft.
- routemarch — march in which a unit retains its column formation but individuals are allowed to break step.
- royalistic — relating to a royalist
- rusticator — to go to the country.
- sacerdotal — of priests; priestly.
- sacramento — a state in the W United States, on the Pacific coast. 158,693 sq. mi. (411,015 sq. km). Capital: Sacramento. Abbreviation: CA (for use with zip code), Cal., Calif.
- sacrosanct — extremely sacred or inviolable: a sacrosanct chamber in the temple.
- samothrace — a Greek island in the NE Aegean.
- sanctimony — pretended, affected, or hypocritical religious devotion, righteousness, etc.
- sanctioned — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
- sauce boat — a low, boat-shaped container for serving sauce or gravy, typically having a handle at one end and a long, wide lip at the other end.
- saw doctor — a sawmill specialist who sharpens and services saw blades
- scatophagy — the act of eating dung or excrement
- scatoscopy — examination of the feces for diagnostic purposes.
- scholastic — of or relating to schools, scholars, or education: scholastic attainments.