10-letter words containing a, u, t, o, c
- continuant — a speech sound, such as (l), (r), (f), or (s), in which the closure of the vocal tract is incomplete, allowing the continuous passage of the breath
- continuate — continuous
- conventual — of, belonging to, or characteristic of a convent
- convulsant — producing convulsions
- copulating — Present participle of copulate.
- copulation — sexual intercourse.
- copulative — serving to join or unite
- copulatory — to engage in sexual intercourse.
- corrugated — Corrugated metal or cardboard has been folded into a series of small parallel folds to make it stronger.
- corrugates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of corrugate.
- corrugator — a muscle whose contraction causes wrinkling of the brow
- corruscate — Dated form of coruscate.
- coruscated — Simple past tense and past participle of coruscate.
- cosmonauts — Plural form of cosmonaut.
- cotylosaur — any of various members of the extinct order of primitive and massive reptiles known as Cotylosauria, which lived between the Carboniferous and Triassic ages
- counteract — To counteract something means to reduce its effect by doing something that produces an opposite effect.
- counterair — (military) Attacking the air force of an opposing power.
- counterman — a man who works on a lunch counter or behind the counter of a cafe
- counterwar — War waged in response to another war.
- countryman — Your countrymen are people from your own country.
- courantyne — a river in N South America, rising in S Guyana and flowing north to the Atlantic, forming the boundary between Guyana and Surinam. Length: 765 km (475 miles)
- coursemate — One who is taking the same academic course.
- court card — (in a pack of playing cards) a king, queen, or jack of any suit
- court case — a legal action
- court hand — a style of handwriting formerly used in English law courts
- courtcraft — the artifices and intrigues of a royal court
- courtesans — Plural form of courtesan.
- courtyards — Plural form of courtyard.
- cretaceous — consisting of or resembling chalk
- croustades — Plural form of croustade.
- cruciation — (obsolete) torture; torment.
- crustation — the action of forming a crust
- 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.
- cutthroats — Plural form of cutthroat.
- diacoustic — relating to refracted sounds
- documental — Also, documental [dok-yuh-men-tl] /ˌdɒk yəˈmɛn tl/ (Show IPA). pertaining to, consisting of, or derived from documents: a documentary history of France.
- double act — Two comedians or entertainers who perform together are referred to as a double act. Their performance can also be called a double act.
- dracontium — (pharmacy, obsolete) The roots and rhizomes of skunk cabbage, Symplocarpus foetidus.
- duplicator — a machine for making duplicates, as a mimeograph.
- dutchwoman — a female native or inhabitant of the Netherlands; a woman of Dutch ancestry.