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10-letter words containing c, a, o, e, t

  • cismontane — on this (the writer's or speaker's) side of the mountains, esp the Alps
  • cistaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Cistaceae, a family of shrubby or herbaceous plants that includes the rockroses
  • citronella — a tropical Asian grass, Cymbopogon (or Andropogon) nardus, with bluish-green lemon-scented leaves
  • clapometer — a device that measures applause
  • clay stone — argillite.
  • claystones — argillite.
  • clearstory — clerestory
  • clock rate — (processor, benchmark)   The fundamental rate in cycles per second at which a computer performs its most basic operations such as adding two numbers or transfering a value from one register to another. The clock rate of a computer is normally determined by the frequency of a crystal. The original IBM PC, circa 1981, had a clock rate of 4.77 MHz (almost five million cycles/second). As of 1995, Intel's Pentium chip runs at 100 MHz (100 million cycles/second). The clock rate of a computer is only useful for providing comparisons between computer chips in the same processor family. An IBM PC with an Intel 486 CPU running at 50 MHz will be about twice as fast as one with the same CPU, memory and display running at 25 MHz. However, there are many other factors to consider when comparing different computers. Clock rate should not be used when comparing different computers or different processor families. Rather, some benchmark should be used. Clock rate can be very misleading, since the amount of work different computer chips can do in one cycle varies. For example, RISC CPUs tend to have simpler instructions than CISC CPUs (but higher clock rates) and pipelined processors execute more than one instruction per cycle.
  • clofibrate — a medication used in the treatment of heart disease
  • cloth beam — a roller, located at the front of a loom, on which woven material is wound after it leaves the breast beam.
  • cloth ears — a deaf person
  • co-operate — If you co-operate with someone, you work with them or help them for a particular purpose. You can also say that two people co-operate.
  • co-partner — a partner or associate, as in a business.
  • co-payment — payment required of an insured person for that portion of medical expenses not paid by the insurance company; specif., a fixed fee required for each prescription, visit to a doctor, etc.
  • coacervate — either of two liquid phases that may separate from a hydrophilic sol, each containing a different concentration of a dispersed solid
  • coactivate — To cause, or to undergo coactivation.
  • coadjacent — something that is adjacent to another thing in experience or thought
  • coagulated — Subject to coagulation.
  • coagulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of coagulate.
  • coal chute — an inclined channel or vertical passage down which coal may be dropped
  • coal depot — a place at which coal may be deposited, stored, etc
  • coalescent — to grow together or into one body: The two lakes coalesced into one.
  • coalmaster — the owner of a colliery
  • coarctated — Simple past tense and past participle of coarctate.
  • coasterize — to ruin (a CD), esp while attempting to burn music, etc on to it, thus rendering it useful only as a drinks coaster
  • coastlines — Plural form of coastline.
  • coat check — The coat check at a public building such as a theater or club is the place where customers can leave their coats, usually for a small fee.
  • coat dress — a lightweight button-through garment that can be worn either as a dress or as a coat
  • coatbridge — an industrial town in central Scotland, in North Lanarkshire. Pop: 41 170 (2001)
  • coated pit — a clathrin-lined depression in the outer surface of a cell membrane, formed of receptors and their specific ligands, that becomes a coated vesicle upon endocytosis.
  • coathanger — Alternative spelling of coat hanger.
  • coauthored — one of two or more joint authors.
  • cockatiels — Plural form of cockatiel.
  • cockatrice — a legendary monster, part snake and part cock, that could kill with a glance
  • cocked hat — A cocked hat is a hat with three corners that used to be worn with some uniforms.
  • cockleboat — cockboat.
  • cockteaser — a girl or woman who purposely excites or arouses a male sexually but then refuses to have intercourse.
  • cocreation — Joint creation.
  • codetalker — A military communications specialist using codes based on an obscure language.
  • coelacanth — a primitive marine bony fish of the genus Latimeria (subclass Crossopterygii), having fleshy limblike pectoral fins and occurring off the coast of E Africa: thought to be extinct until a living specimen was discovered in 1938
  • coelomatic — of or relating to a coelom
  • coequality — The condition of being coequal.
  • coetaneous — of the same age or period
  • cofavorite — a joint favourite
  • cogenerate — To generate two forms of energy simultaneously.
  • cogitative — capable of thinking
  • cohabitate — cohabit.
  • coimbatore — an industrial city in SW India, in W Tamil Nadu. Pop: 923 085 (2001)
  • colatitude — the complement of the celestial latitude
  • cold sweat — If you are in a cold sweat, you are sweating and feel cold, usually because you are very afraid or nervous.
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