10-letter words containing c, a, l, r
- clapometer — a device that measures applause
- clapperboy — a boy who operates a clapper
- clappering — the sound made by using a clapper
- clarabella — an eight-foot flute stop on an organ
- clarabelle — a female given name.
- clarenceux — the second King-of-Arms in England
- claret cup — an iced drink made of claret, brandy, lemon, sugar, and sometimes sherry, Curaçao, etc
- clarifying — to make (an idea, statement, etc.) clear or intelligible; to free from ambiguity.
- clark cell — a cell having a mercury cathode surrounded by a paste of mercuric sulphate and a zinc anode in a saturated solution of zinc sulphate. Formerly used as a standard, its emf is 1.4345 volts
- clark fork — river flowing from W Mont. northwest into Pend Oreille Lake in N Ida.: c. 300 mi (483 km)
- clarksburg — a city in N West Virginia, on the Monongahela River.
- clarksdale — a city in NW Mississippi.
- class mark — a value within a class interval, esp its midpoint or the nearest integral value, used to represent the interval for computational convenience
- class rank — a student's rank among others of the same year based on a numeric grade point average
- classifier — a person or thing that classifies.
- classrooms — Plural form of classroom.
- clathrates — Plural form of clathrate.
- clattering — to make a loud, rattling sound, as that produced by hard objects striking rapidly one against the other: The shutters clattered in the wind.
- clavichord — A clavichord is a musical instrument rather like a small piano. When you press the keys, small pieces of metal come up and hit the strings. Clavichords were especially popular during the eighteenth century.
- clavicular — a bone of the pectoral arch.
- clavierist — a person who plays the clavier
- clawhammer — denoting a style of plucking the strings of a banjo in which the hand forms a clawlike shape
- clay court — a tennis court with a playing surface topped by a layer of crushed shale, brick, or stone
- clay eater — (in the South Atlantic States) a term used to refer to a poor, uneducated person from a rural area.
- clay flour — dried and pulverized clay.
- clean room — an environment, typically used in manufacturing or scientific research, in which environmental contaminants are kept to an absolute minimum
- clear away — When you clear things away or clear away, you put away the things that you have been using, especially for eating or cooking.
- clear-eyed — discerning; perceptive
- clear-fell — to cut down all of the trees in (a wood, part of a wood, or throughout an area of land)
- clearances — Plural form of clearance.
- clearfield — a town in N Utah.
- clearstory — clerestory
- clearwater — city in WC Fla., on the Gulf of Mexico: suburb of St. Petersburg: pop. 109,000
- clearwings — Plural form of clearwing.
- clepsydras — Plural form of clepsydra.
- clergiable — (of a criminal charge) able to be contested in a clerical rather than a secular court
- clerically — In a clerical manner; as a cleric.
- cleromancy — a divination involving dice-throwing or lot-casting
- click-wrap — a license agreement that appears as an icon during the setup of a software program or online service and must be clicked on to agree to its terms.
- climateric — (obsolete) climatic.
- climograph — A chart that summarizes the climate of a place by superimposing a line graph representing average monthly temperature on a bar chart representing average monthly precipitation.
- clinograph — (in mining, construction, etc.) an instrument that records the deviation of boreholes or the like from the vertical.
- clip frame — a picture frame that is held together by clips attaching the glass to the backing
- clipboards — Plural form of clipboard.
- clistocarp — cleistothecium.
- cloak fern — a type of fern, genus Notholaena, found in dry, rocky areas of temperate and tropical America, often used as an ornamental.
- cloak-room — a room in which outer garments, hats, umbrellas, etc., may be left temporarily, as in a club, restaurant, etc.; checkroom.
- cloakmaker — Someone who makes cloaks.
- cloakrooms — Plural form of cloakroom.
- clock card — a card used by employees to register their time of arrival at, and time of departure from, their workplace