10-letter words containing c, h, t, o
- death code — A routine whose job is to set everything in the computer - registers, memory, flags - to zero, including that portion of memory where it is running; its last act is to stomp on its own "store zero" instruction. Death code isn't very useful, but writing it is an interesting hacking challenge on architectures where the instruction set makes it possible, such as the PDP-8 or the Data General Nova. Perhaps the ultimate death code is on the TI 990 series, where all registers are actually in RAM, and the instruction "store immediate 0" has the opcode 0. The program counter will immediately wrap around core as many times as it can until a user hits HALT. Any empty memory location is death code. Worse, the manufacturer recommended use of this instruction in startup code (which would be in ROM and therefore survive).
- decathlons — Plural form of decathlon.
- dhobi itch — a fungal disease of the skin: a type of ringworm chiefly affecting the groin
- dichotomic — division into two parts, kinds, etc.; subdivision into halves or pairs.
- dichromate — any salt or ester of dichromic acid. Dichromate salts contain the ion Cr2O72–
- dictaphone — a tape recorder designed for recording dictation and later reproducing it for typing
- dictograph — a telephonic instrument for secretly monitoring or recording conversations by means of a small, sensitive, and often concealed microphone
- diorthotic — involving or relating to the revision of a literary text
- dishcloths — Plural form of dishcloth.
- distichous — Botany. arranged alternately in two vertical rows on opposite sides of an axis, as leaves.
- ditch-moss — elodea.
- ditrochean — consisting of two trochees
- docentship — privatdocent.
- doctorfish — a surgeonfish, especially Acanthurus chirurgus, of the West Indies, having a bluish body and black tail.
- doctorship — a person licensed to practice medicine, as a physician, surgeon, dentist, or veterinarian.
- dog clutch — a clutch in which projections of one of the engaging parts fit into recesses of the other.
- dogcatcher — a person employed by a municipal pound, humane society, or the like, to find and impound stray or homeless dogs, cats, etc.
- dogwatches — Plural form of dogwatch.
- dorchester — a town in S Dorsetshire, in S England, on the Frome River: named Casterbridge in Thomas Hardy's novels.
- drop cloth — a sheet of cloth, paper, plastic, or the like laid over furniture and floors for protection while a room is being painted or laid over shrubbery while the exterior of a house is being painted.
- dropcloths — Plural form of dropcloth.
- dutch bond — a brickwork bond in which the vertical joints of the stretchers in any course are in line with the centers of the first stretchers above and below.
- dutch doll — a jointed wooden doll
- dutch door — a door consisting of two units horizontally divided so that each half can be opened or closed separately.
- dutch gold — an alloy of copper and zinc in the form of thin sheets, used as an imitation of gold leaf.
- dutch oven — a heavily constructed kettle with a close-fitting lid, used for pot roasts, stews, etc.
- dutchwoman — a female native or inhabitant of the Netherlands; a woman of Dutch ancestry.
- dystrophic — Medicine/Medical. pertaining to or caused by dystrophy.
- each other — Although some insist that each other be used only in reference to two (The two candidates respected each other) and one another in reference to three or more (The three nations threaten one another), in standard practice they are interchangeable. Each other is not restricted to two, nor is one another restricted to three or more. The possessive of each other is each other's; the possessive of one another is one another's.
- ecchymotic — a discoloration due to extravasation of blood, as in a bruise.
- echo plate — (in sound recording or broadcasting) an electromechanical device for producing echo and reverberation effects
- echolocate — To locate by means of echolocation.
- ectomorphs — Plural form of ectomorph.
- ectomorphy — having a thin body build, roughly characterized by the relative prominence of structures developed from the embryonic ectoderm (contrasted with endomorphic, mesomorphic).
- ectophytes — Plural form of ectophyte.
- ectotherms — Plural form of ectotherm.
- ectothermy — (biology) The condition of being ectothermic or warm-blooded; the ability to maintain the body's temperature.
- eightscore — one hundred and sixty
- endolithic — Within rock.
- endophytic — Of or relating to an endophyte.
- endothecia — Plural form of endothecium.
- enomotarch — (historical, Ancient Greece) The commander of an enomoty.
- enphytotic — (of plant diseases) causing a constant amount of damage each year
- entophytic — relating to an entophyte
- erythrocin — (medicine) synonym of erythromycin.
- escharotic — Capable of producing an eschar.
- escoveitch — (West Indies) escabeche.
- escutcheon — A shield or emblem bearing a coat of arms.
- ethnologic — Ethnological.
- ethnoscape — A transnational distribution of correlated people.