10-letter words containing c, l, t
- clinkstone — a variety of phonolite that makes a metallic sound when struck
- clinometer — an instrument used in surveying for measuring an angle of inclination
- clinostats — Plural form of clinostat.
- cliometric — Of or pertaining to cliometrics.
- clip joint — a place, such as a nightclub or restaurant, in which customers are overcharged
- clisthenes — Cleisthenes
- clistocarp — cleistothecium.
- 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.
- clostridia — Plural form of clostridium.
- 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 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
- cloth-like — resembling cloth
- clothbound — (of a book) bound in stiff boards covered in cloth
- clothespin — A clothespin is the same as a clothes peg.
- clottiness — the condition of being clotty
- cloudburst — A cloudburst is a sudden, very heavy fall of rain.
- cloze test — test of the ability to understand text
- club steak — a small steak that is cut from the short loin of beef and contains no part of the tenderloin
- club wheat — a wheat, Triticum compactum, characterized by compact, club-shaped spikes, used for making pastry flour and the like.
- clubfooted — Having a clubfoot.
- clubmaster — the manager of a gentlemen's club
- cluster 86 — (language) A distributed object-oriented language by L. Shang <[email protected]> of Nanjing University, ca. 1986. A cluster is a metatype. There are versions for MS-DOS and Unix.
- clustering — cluster
- clutch bag — clutch1 (def 15).
- cluttering — A speech disorder characterized by fast, jerky, or irregular speech, which often sounds like stuttering.
- cnidoblast — any of the cells of a coelenterate that contain nematocysts
- co-orbital — noting or pertaining to two or more celestial bodies that share or almost share an orbit.
- coach bolt — a large round-headed bolt used esp to secure wood to masonry
- coagulants — Plural form of coagulant.
- coagulated — Subject to coagulation.
- coagulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of coagulate.
- coagulator — a substance that produces or aids coagulation.
- 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.
- coalitions — Plural form of coalition.
- coalmaster — the owner of a colliery
- coastlands — Plural form of coastland.