10-letter words containing c, a, r, n, t
- catamarans — Plural form of catamaran.
- catarrhine — (of apes and Old World monkeys) having the nostrils set close together and opening to the front of the face
- catenarian — the downward curve formed by chain or cord being fixed at two points
- catenaries — Plural form of catenary.
- catnappers — Plural form of catnapper.
- catskinner — an operator of a vehicle or machine with caterpillar treads.
- cattle run — a barnyard or fenced area adjacent to a barn used as a limited grazing area or exercise lot for cattle.
- cautionary — A cautionary story or a cautionary note to a story is one that is intended to give a warning to people.
- cautioners — Plural form of cautioner.
- cavortings — sexual frolics
- celebrants — Plural form of celebrant.
- centauress — A female centaur; a she-centaur.
- centaurian — resembling or of the nature of a centaur
- centauries — Plural form of centaury.
- centigrade — Centigrade is a scale for measuring temperature, in which water freezes at 0 degrees and boils at 100 degrees. It is represented by the symbol °C.
- centigrams — Plural form of centigram.
- centralise — to draw to or gather about a center.
- centralism — Centralism is a way of governing a country, or organizing something such as industry, education, or politics, which involves having one central group of people who give instructions to everyone else.
- centralist — Centralist organizations govern a country or organize things using one central group of people who control and instruct everyone else.
- centrality — the state or condition of being central
- centralize — To centralize a country, state, or organization means to create a system in which one central group of people gives instructions to regional groups.
- centration — The tendency to focus on one aspect of a situation and neglect others.
- centroidal — of or relating to a centroid
- certainity — Misspelling of certainty.
- certaynely — Archaic spelling of certainly.
- cfortran.h — (library) A transparent, machine independent interface between C and Fortran routines and global data, developed by Burkhard Burow at CERN. It provides macros which allow the C preprocessor to translate a simple description of a C (Fortran) routine or global data into a Fortran (C) interface. Version 2.6 runs on VAX/VMS/Ultrix, DECstation, Silicon Graphics, IBM RS/6000, Sun, Cray, Apollo, HP9000, LynxOS, f2c, NAG f90. cfortran.h was reviewed in RS/Magazine November 1992 and a user's experiences with cfortran.h are described in the Jan 93 issue of Computers in Physics.
- chadderton — a town in NW England, in Oldham unitary authority, in Greater Manchester. Pop: 33 001 (2001)
- chambertin — a dry red burgundy wine produced in Gevrey-Chambertin in E France
- chardonnet — (Louis Marie) Hilaire Bernigaud (ilɛr bɛrniɡo), Comte de. 1839–1924, French chemist and industrialist who produced rayon, the first artificial fibre
- charlatans — Plural form of charlatan.
- charleston — The Charleston is a lively dance that was popular in the 1920s.
- chartering — a document, issued by a sovereign or state, outlining the conditions under which a corporation, colony, city, or other corporate body is organized, and defining its rights and privileges.
- chattering — rapid and continuous talk
- chatterton — Thomas. 1752–70, British poet; author of spurious medieval verse and prose: he committed suicide at the age of 17
- cheapernet — (networking) (Or "thinnet") A colloquial term for thin-wire Ethernet (10base2) that uses RG58 coaxial cable instead of the full-spec "Yellow Cable".
- chevrotain — any small timid ruminant artiodactyl mammal of the genera Tragulus and Hyemoschus, of S and SE Asia: family Tragulidae. They resemble rodents, and the males have long tusklike upper canines
- chin strap — a strap attached to a hat for passing under the chin of the wearer.
- chin-strap — a strap attached to a hat for passing under the chin of the wearer.
- china tree — chinaberry (sense 1)
- chinstraps — Plural form of chinstrap.
- chitarrone — a large lute with a double neck in common use during the baroque period, esp in Italy
- chlorinate — to combine or treat (a substance) with chlorine
- chromatins — Plural form of chromatin.
- chrononaut — (science fiction, dated) A time-traveller.
- cineration — The reducing of anything to ashes by combustion; cinefaction.
- cistercian — a member of a Christian order of monks and nuns founded in 1098, which follows an especially strict form of the Benedictine rule
- citronalis — lemon verbena.
- citronella — a tropical Asian grass, Cymbopogon (or Andropogon) nardus, with bluish-green lemon-scented leaves
- 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.
- co-partner — a partner or associate, as in a business.