10-letter words containing c, e, t, o, l
- clapometer — a device that measures applause
- clay stone — argillite.
- claystones — argillite.
- clearstory — clerestory
- clerestory — a row of windows in the upper part of the wall of a church that divides the nave from the aisle, set above the aisle roof
- clingstone — a fruit, such as certain peaches, in which the flesh tends to adhere to the stone
- clinkstone — a variety of phonolite that makes a metallic sound when struck
- clinometer — an instrument used in surveying for measuring an angle of inclination
- cliometric — Of or pertaining to cliometrics.
- clitorises — the erectile organ of the vulva, homologous to the penis of the male.
- 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
- cloistered — If you have a cloistered way of life, you live quietly and are not involved in the normal busy life of the world around you.
- cloisterer — a person who lives in a cloister
- cloistress — a nun
- clonotypes — Plural form of clonotype.
- close shot — closeup (def 2).
- close with — to engage in battle with an enemy
- close-knit — A close-knit group of people are closely linked, do things together, and take an interest in each other.
- closed set — a set that includes all the values obtained by application of a given operation to its members
- closestool — Alternative form of close-stool.
- 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
- cloth-like — resembling cloth
- clothespin — A clothespin is the same as a clothes peg.
- clottiness — the condition of being clotty
- cloze test — test of the ability to understand text
- clubfooted — Having a clubfoot.
- 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
- coastlines — Plural form of coastline.
- cockatiels — Plural form of cockatiel.
- cockleboat — cockboat.
- 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
- coeliotomy — (surgery) A surgical procedure for making an incision in the abdominal wall to gain access into the abdominal cavity. Performed either as exploratory surgery, or as the first step in an abdominal operation.
- coelomatic — of or relating to a coelom
- coequality — The condition of being coequal.
- coherently — logically connected; consistent: a coherent argument.
- cokebottle — (character, humour) /kohk'bot-l/ Any unusual character, particularly one you can't type because it isn't on your keyboard. MIT people used to complain about the "control-meta-cokebottle" commands at SAIL, and SAIL people complained about the "altmode-altmode-cokebottle" commands at MIT. After the demise of the space-cadet keyboard, "cokebottle" was used less, but was often used to describe weird or non-intuitive keystrokes. The OSF/Motif window manager, "mwm" keystroke for switching to the default keybindings and behaviour is control-meta-bang. Since exclamation mark might be thought to look like a Coke bottle, Motif hackers referred to this keystroke as "cokebottle". See also quadruple bucky.
- colatitude — the complement of the celestial latitude
- colchester — a town in E England, in NE Essex; university (1964). Pop: 104 390 (2001)
- cold steel — the use of bayonets, knives, etc, in combat
- cold store — A cold store is a building or room which is artificially cooled so that food can be preserved in it.
- cold sweat — If you are in a cold sweat, you are sweating and feel cold, usually because you are very afraid or nervous.
- cold-store — to store in cold storage.