10-letter words containing c, a, t, s
- axiomatics — the study of axioms
- bacchantes — Plural form of bacchant.
- back shaft — a spindle carrying back gears.
- back shift — a group of workers who work a shift from late afternoon to midnight in an industry or occupation where a day shift or a night shift is also worked
- back staff — an obsolete instrument for determining the altitude of the sun by facing away from the sun, sighting upon the horizon, adjusting a cursor until its shadow falls upon the sight through which the horizon appears, and measuring the resulting arc.
- back story — background information provided, often in narrative form, to give help in understanding something, as the behavior of a character in a film
- backbiters — Plural form of backbiter.
- backcloths — Plural form of backcloth.
- backcourts — Plural form of backcourt.
- backlights — Plural form of backlight.
- backlisted — Simple past tense and past participle of backlist.
- backplates — Plural form of backplate.
- backseater — A navigator who accompanies the pilot of an aircraft.
- backsights — Plural form of backsight.
- backstairs — a secondary staircase in a house, esp one originally for the use of servants
- backstitch — a strong sewing stitch made by starting the next stitch at the middle or beginning of the preceding one
- backstreet — a street in a town remote from the main roads
- backstroke — Backstroke is a swimming stroke that you do lying on your back.
- backtracks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backtrack.
- backwaters — Plural form of backwater.
- ballistics — Ballistics is the study of the movement of objects that are shot or thrown through the air, such as bullets fired from a gun.
- baltic sea — a sea in N Europe, connected with the North Sea by the Skagerrak, Kattegat, and Öresund; shallow, with low salinity and small tides
- bandicoots — Plural form of bandicoot.
- bariatrics — the study of obesity and its treatment
- baroswitch — a switch actuated by barometric pressure.
- basic rate — the standard or lowest level on a scale of money payable, esp in taxation
- basic salt — a salt formed by the partial neutralization of a base.
- basilectal — (linguistics) of, or relating to a basilect.
- basilicata — a region of S Italy, between the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Gulf of Taranto. Capital: Potenza. Pop: 596 821 (2003 est). Area: 9985 sq km (3855 sq miles)
- basketcase — Alternative form of basket case.
- batchmates — Plural form of batchmate.
- bathyscaph — a submersible vessel having a flotation compartment with an observation capsule underneath, capable of reaching ocean depths of over 10 000 metres (about 5000 fathoms)
- beast epic — a long verse narrative in which the misadventures of animals satirize human foibles and follies.
- beech mast — the edible nuts of the beech, especially when lying on the ground.
- bench seat — a seat for more than one person
- beta stock — any of the second rank of active securities on the Stock Exchange, of which there are about 500. Continuous display of prices by market makers is required but not immediate publication of transactions
- bioclastic — (of deposits, esp limestones) derived from shell fragments or similar organic remains
- bioplastic — plastic suitable for use as a biomaterial.
- biostatics — the branch of biology that deals with the structure of organisms in relation to their function
- bitch-slap — to strike (someone) with one's open hand
- black list — a list of persons under suspicion, disfavor, censure, etc.: His record as an anarchist put him on the government's blacklist.
- black rust — a stage in any of several diseases of cereals and grasses caused by rust fungi in which black masses of spores appear on the stems or leaves
- black site — a secret facility used by a country's military as a prison and interrogation centre, whose existence is denied by the government
- black spot — If you describe a place, time, or part of a situation as a black spot, you mean that it is particularly bad or likely to cause problems.
- black stem — a disease of plants, characterized by blackened stems and defoliation, caused by any of several fungi, as Ascochyta imperfecta or Mycosphaerella lethalis.
- blackshirt — (in Europe) a member of a fascist organization, esp a member of the Italian Fascist party before and during World War II
- blacksmith — A blacksmith is a person whose job is making things by hand out of metal that has been heated to a high temperature.
- blackstone — Sir William. 1723–80, English jurist noted particularly for his Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765–69), which had a profound influence on jurisprudence in the US
- blackstrap — a kind of port wine
- blast cell — any undifferentiated or immature cell.