10-letter words containing c, l, e, r
- civil year — calendar year
- civilizers — Plural form of civilizer.
- cladoceran — any minute freshwater crustacean of the order Cladocera, which includes the water fleas
- clairseach — an ancient Irish and Scottish harp.
- clambering — of or relating to plants that creep or climb like vines, but without benefit of tendrils.
- clamdigger — One who digs for clams.
- clapometer — a device that measures applause
- clapperboy — a boy who operates a clapper
- clappering — the sound made by using a clapper
- clarabella — an eight-foot flute stop on an organ
- clarabelle — a female given name.
- clarenceux — the second King-of-Arms in England
- claret cup — an iced drink made of claret, brandy, lemon, sugar, and sometimes sherry, Curaçao, etc
- clark cell — a cell having a mercury cathode surrounded by a paste of mercuric sulphate and a zinc anode in a saturated solution of zinc sulphate. Formerly used as a standard, its emf is 1.4345 volts
- clarksdale — a city in NW Mississippi.
- classifier — a person or thing that classifies.
- clathrates — Plural form of clathrate.
- clattering — to make a loud, rattling sound, as that produced by hard objects striking rapidly one against the other: The shutters clattered in the wind.
- clavierist — a person who plays the clavier
- clawhammer — denoting a style of plucking the strings of a banjo in which the hand forms a clawlike shape
- clay eater — (in the South Atlantic States) a term used to refer to a poor, uneducated person from a rural area.
- clean room — an environment, typically used in manufacturing or scientific research, in which environmental contaminants are kept to an absolute minimum
- clear away — When you clear things away or clear away, you put away the things that you have been using, especially for eating or cooking.
- clear-eyed — discerning; perceptive
- clear-fell — to cut down all of the trees in (a wood, part of a wood, or throughout an area of land)
- clearances — Plural form of clearance.
- clearfield — a town in N Utah.
- clearstory — clerestory
- clearwater — city in WC Fla., on the Gulf of Mexico: suburb of St. Petersburg: pop. 109,000
- clearwings — Plural form of clearwing.
- clepsydras — Plural form of clepsydra.
- 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
- clergiable — (of a criminal charge) able to be contested in a clerical rather than a secular court
- clerically — In a clerical manner; as a cleric.
- clerk-like — acting in a scholarly manner
- cleromancy — a divination involving dice-throwing or lot-casting
- cleverness — mentally bright; having sharp or quick intelligence; able.
- climateric — (obsolete) climatic.
- clinometer — an instrument used in surveying for measuring an angle of inclination
- cliometric — Of or pertaining to cliometrics.
- clip frame — a picture frame that is held together by clips attaching the glass to the backing
- clitorises — the erectile organ of the vulva, homologous to the penis of the male.
- cloak fern — a type of fern, genus Notholaena, found in dry, rocky areas of temperate and tropical America, often used as an ornamental.
- cloakmaker — Someone who makes cloaks.
- clobbering — Present participle of clobber.
- 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
- clodhopper — a clumsy person; lout
- 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.