10-letter words containing c, o, s, t, e
- chemotaxis — the movement of a microorganism or cell in response to a chemical stimulus
- chernovtsy — a city in Ukraine on the Prut River: formerly under Polish, Austro-Hungarian, and Romanian rule; part of the Soviet Union (1947–91). Pop: 237 000 (2005 est)
- chervonets — (formerly) a Soviet monetary unit and gold coin worth ten roubles
- chest cold — a cold mainly affecting the chest
- chesterton — G(ilbert) K(eith). 1874–1936, English essayist, novelist, poet, and critic
- chockstone — a stone securely jammed in a crack. It may vary in size from a pebble to a large boulder
- chocolates — Plural form of chocolate.
- cholecysts — Plural form of cholecyst.
- chondrites — Plural form of chondrite.
- choreutics — a system that analyzes form in movement, developed by Rudolf von Laban (1879–1958), Hungarian choreographer and dance theorist.
- choristers — Plural form of chorister.
- christophe — Henri (ɑ̃ri). 1767–1820, Haitian revolutionary leader; king of Haiti (1811–20)
- chrysolite — a yellowish-green gem derived chiefly from varieties of olivine
- chrysotile — a green, grey, or white fibrous mineral, a variety of serpentine, that is an important source of commercial asbestos. Formula: Mg3Si2O5(OH)4
- cismontane — on this (the writer's or speaker's) side of the mountains, esp the Alps
- cispontine — on the near side of the bridge
- cistaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Cistaceae, a family of shrubby or herbaceous plants that includes the rockroses
- clay stone — argillite.
- claystones — argillite.
- clearstory — clerestory
- 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
- clingstone — a fruit, such as certain peaches, in which the flesh tends to adhere to the stone
- clinkstone — a variety of phonolite that makes a metallic sound when struck
- clitorises — the erectile organ of the vulva, homologous to the penis of the male.
- 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.
- cloth ears — a deaf person
- clothespin — A clothespin is the same as a clothes peg.
- clottiness — the condition of being clotty
- cloze test — test of the ability to understand text
- coagulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of coagulate.
- coalescent — to grow together or into one body: The two lakes coalesced into one.
- coalmaster — the owner of a colliery
- coasterize — to ruin (a CD), esp while attempting to burn music, etc on to it, thus rendering it useful only as a drinks coaster
- coastlines — Plural form of coastline.
- coat dress — a lightweight button-through garment that can be worn either as a dress or as a coat
- cobwebsite — (jargon, web) A website that hasn't been updated for a long time. A dead web page.
- cockatiels — Plural form of cockatiel.
- cockteaser — a girl or woman who purposely excites or arouses a male sexually but then refuses to have intercourse.
- codeswitch — Alternative form of code-switch.
- coenocytes — Plural form of coenocyte.
- coenosteum — the calcareous skeleton of a hydrocoral or a coral colony
- coetaneous — of the same age or period