10-letter words containing c, a, t, e, r, p
- grapholect — an established and standardized written language
- heat cramp — a cramp or muscular spasm caused by loss of water and salt following prolonged exertion in hot weather.
- hectograph — a process for making copies of a letter, memorandum, etc., from a prepared gelatin surface to which the original writing has been transferred.
- heptachlor — a highly toxic, light-tan, waxy solid, C 10 H 5 Cl 7 , used as an insecticide: its manufacture and use are restricted in the U.S.
- heptachord — a musical scale of seven notes.
- hermatypic — reef-building coral.
- hyperacute — sharp or severe in effect; intense: acute sorrow; an acute pain.
- hyperbatic — relating to a hyperbaton
- impartance — Impartation.
- importance — the quality or state of being important; consequence; significance.
- imprecated — Simple past tense and past participle of imprecate.
- imprecates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of imprecate.
- interspace — a space between things.
- j particle — an early name for the J/psi particle.
- keep track — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- kleptocrat — a government official who is a thief or exploiter.
- laeotropic — oriented or coiled in a leftward direction, as a left-spiraling snail shell.
- macrophyte — a plant, especially a marine plant, large enough to be visible to the naked eye.
- market cap — A market cap is the total market value of all the shares in a company.
- meatpacker — a person or company involved in the wholesale meat trade
- mecopteran — mecopterous.
- mercaptide — a metallic salt of a mercaptan.
- metacarpal — of or relating to the metacarpus.
- metacarpus — the part of a hand or forelimb, especially of its bony structure, included between the wrist, or carpus, and the fingers, or phalanges.
- metaphoric — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
- north cape — a point of land on an island at the N tip of Norway: the northernmost point of Europe.
- operculate — having an operculum.
- oyster cap — an edible, brownish-gray to white mushroom, Pleurotus ostreatus, that grows in clusters on fallen trees and their stumps.
- pacesetter — a person, group, or organization that is the most progressive or successful and serves as a model to be imitated.
- pachymeter — an instrument for measuring thickness
- packthread — a strong thread or twine for sewing or tying up packages.
- palearctic — Zoogeography. belonging or pertaining to a geographical division comprising Europe, Africa north of the tropic of Cancer, the northern part of the Arabian Peninsula, and Asia north of the Himalayas.
- pancreatic — of or affecting the pancreas
- pancreatin — Biochemistry. a substance containing the pancreatic enzymes, trypsin, amylase, and lipase.
- pancreato- — pancreas
- paraenetic — of or relating to moral and ethical instruction or paraenesis
- parametric — Mathematics. a constant or variable term in a function that determines the specific form of the function but not its general nature, as a in f (x) = ax, where a determines only the slope of the line described by f (x). one of the independent variables in a set of parametric equations.
- parcel net — a large bag made of netting attached inside (the boot or trunk of) a car and used to store loose items, such as groceries, sports equipment, or parcels, etc
- parcel out — an object, article, container, or quantity of something wrapped or packed up; small package; bundle.
- part-score — a contract to make less than the number of tricks required for game: to bid a part-score of three diamonds.
- participle — an adjective or complement to certain auxiliaries that is regularly derived from the verb in many languages and refers to participation in the action or state of the verb; a verbal form used as an adjective. It does not specify person or number in English, but may have a subject or object, show tense, etc., as burning, in a burning candle, or devoted in his devoted friend.
- pasticheur — a person who makes, composes, or concocts a pastiche.
- patch reef — an isolated coral growth forming a small platform in a lagoon, barrier reef, or atoll.
- patna rice — a variety of long-grain rice, used for savoury dishes
- patriciate — the patrician class.
- pe teacher — a teacher of Physical Education
- pearl city — a city on S Oahu, in central Hawaii.
- pectoralis — either of two muscles on each side of the upper and anterior part of the thorax, the action of the larger (pectoralis major) assisting in drawing the shoulder forward and rotating the arm inward, and the action of the smaller (pectoralis minor) assisting in drawing the shoulder downward and forward.
- pediatrics — the branch of medicine concerned with the development, care, and diseases of babies and children.
- penetrance — the frequency, expressed as a percentage, with which a particular gene produces its effect in a group of organisms. Compare expressivity (def 2).