10-letter words containing c, l, t
- coastlands — Plural form of coastland.
- coastlines — Plural form of coastline.
- coat-tails — Coat-tails are the two long pieces at the back of a tailcoat.
- cocatalyst — a substance that acts in tandem with another as a catalyst
- coccoliths — Plural form of coccolith.
- 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 front — the boundary line between a warm air mass and the cold air pushing it from beneath and behind as it moves
- cold light — light emitted at low temperatures from a source that is not incandescent, such as fluorescence, phosphorescence, bioluminescence, or triboluminescence
- cold start — the reloading of a program or operating system
- 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-patch — to apply a cold patch to.
- cold-store — to store in cold storage.
- 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)
- colemanite — a colourless or white glassy mineral consisting of hydrated calcium borate in monoclinic crystalline form. It occurs with and is a source of borax. Formula: Ca2B6O11.5H2O
- coleoptera — the largest order in the animal kingdom; the beetles
- coleoptile — a protective sheath around the plumule in grasses
- colestipol — a drug that reduces the concentration of cholesterol in the blood: used, together with dietary restriction of cholesterol, to treat selected patients with hypercholesterolaemia and so prevent atherosclerosis
- collar rot — a disease of plants, characterized by cankers that girdle the stem, caused by any of several fungi, as Alternaria solani.
- collarette — a woman's fur or lace collar
- collarstud — a stud that is used to attach a removable collar to a shirt
- collatable — able to be collated
- collateral — Collateral is money or property which is used as a guarantee that someone will repay a loan.
- collations — Plural form of collation.
- collect up — If you collect up things, you bring them all together, usually when you have finished using them.
- collecters — Plural form of collecter.
- collecting — A collecting tin or box is one that is used to collect money for charity.
- collection — A collection of things is a group of similar things that you have deliberately acquired, usually over a period of time.
- collective — Collective actions, situations, or feelings involve or are shared by every member of a group of people.
- collectors — Plural form of collector.
- collegiate — Collegiate means belonging or relating to a college or to college students.
- colligated — Simple past tense and past participle of colligate.
- collimated — Simple past tense and past participle of collimate.
- collimates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of collimate.
- collimator — a small telescope attached to a larger optical instrument as an aid in fixing its line of sight
- colliquant — capable of liquefaction or dissolution
- colliquate — to melt or cause to melt
- colloblast — one of the cells covered with sticky granules on the tentacles of a ctenophore, which aid in capturing prey.