10-letter words containing c, l, a, r
- 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.
- clockmaker — a person who makes or mends clocks, watches, etc
- clofibrate — a medication used in the treatment of heart disease
- clostridia — Plural form of clostridium.
- cloth ears — a deaf person
- cloth yard — a medieval unit of measure for cloth, fixed at 37 inches by Edward VI of England: also used as a length for longbow arrows
- cloud rack — a group of moving clouds
- cloverleaf — A cloverleaf is an arrangement of curved roads, resembling a four-leaf clover, that joins two main roads.
- club chair — a large, heavily upholstered armchair, usually with a low back
- club grass — cattail.
- clubmaster — the manager of a gentlemen's club
- co-orbital — noting or pertaining to two or more celestial bodies that share or almost share an orbit.
- co-ordinal — belonging to the same order.
- coagulator — a substance that produces or aids coagulation.
- coal miner — A coal miner is a person whose job is mining coal.
- coalheaver — One who feeds coal into a furnace.
- coalmaster — the owner of a colliery
- cochlearia — Plural form of cochlearium.
- cockalorum — a self-important little man
- codetalker — A military communications specialist using codes based on an obscure language.
- codewalker — (programming, tool) A program component that analyses other programs. Compilers have codewalkers in their front ends; so do cross-reference generators and some database front ends. Other utility programs that try to do too much with source code may turn into codewalkers. As in "This new 'vgrind' feature would require a codewalker to implement."
- cold cream — an emulsion of water and fat used cosmetically for softening and cleansing the skin
- cold frame — A cold frame is a wooden frame with a glass top in which you grow small plants to protect them from cold weather.
- cold start — the reloading of a program or operating system
- cold-drawn — (of metal wire, bars, etc) having been drawn unheated through a die to reduce dimensions, toughen, and improve surface finish
- cold-water — designating a room, apartment, etc. that is not provided with hot water or, sometimes, a bathroom
- coldstream — a town in SE Scotland, in Scottish Borders on the English border: the Coldstream Guards were formed here (1660). Pop: 1813 (2001)
- coleoptera — the largest order in the animal kingdom; the beetles
- coleorhiza — a protective sheath around the radicle in grasses
- coll' arco — (of performance with a stringed instrument) with the bow.
- collagraph — An artistic print made through the printmaking process of collagraphy.
- collapsars — Plural form of collapsar.
- collar rot — a disease of plants, characterized by cankers that girdle the stem, caused by any of several fungi, as Alternaria solani.
- collarbone — Your collarbones are the two long bones which run from throat to your shoulders.
- collarette — a woman's fur or lace collar
- collarless — A collarless shirt or jacket has no collar.
- collarstud — a stud that is used to attach a removable collar to a shirt
- collateral — Collateral is money or property which is used as a guarantee that someone will repay a loan.
- collimator — a small telescope attached to a larger optical instrument as an aid in fixing its line of sight
- coloradoan — a state in the W United States. 104,247 sq. mi. (270,000 sq. km). Capital: Denver. Abbreviation: CO (for use with zip code), Col., Colo.
- coloration — The coloration of an animal or a plant is the colours and patterns on it.
- coloratura — Coloratura is very complicated and difficult music for a solo singer, especially in opera.
- colorature — (music) An elaborate melody, particularly in vocal music and especially in operatic singing of the 18th and 19th centuries, with runs, trills, leaps, etc.
- colorectal — of or relating to the colon and rectum
- colour bar — discrimination against people of a different race, esp as practised by White people against Black people
- colourable — capable of being coloured
- colourcast — a colour television broadcast
- colourfast — A fabric that is colourfast has a colour that will not get paler when the fabric is washed or worn.
- colourwash — a coloured distemper
- colportage — the work of a colporteur.