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10-letter words containing c, o

  • aerostatic — of or relating to aerostatics.
  • aerotactic — of movement towards or away from oxygen
  • aerotropic — of or relating to the growth of plants towards or away from oxygen
  • aetiologic — Of or pertaining to an aetiology.
  • affections — feelings of fondness, esteem
  • affliction — An affliction is something which causes physical or mental suffering.
  • affordance — A potential action that is made possible by a given object or environment; especially, one that is made easily discoverable.
  • aficionada — a female aficionado
  • aficionado — If someone is an aficionado of something, they like it and know a lot about it.
  • afro-chain — (in the Caribbean) a large chain necklace with a central pendant: usually worn with a dashiki by men
  • afro-cuban — of or relating to a type of jazz influenced by Cuban variants of African rhythms
  • aftershock — Aftershocks are smaller earthquakes which occur after a large earthquake.
  • agathocles — 361–289 b.c, tyrant of Syracuse 317–289.
  • agonistics — The range of activities associated with aggressive encounters between members of the same species, including threat, attack, appeasement, or retreat.
  • agricultor — (archaic) An agriculturist; a farmer.
  • agronomics — the branch of economics dealing with the distribution, management, and productivity of land
  • agrypnotic — inducing, relating to, or characterized by insomnia
  • ahorseback — on horseback
  • aiken code — (data)   An alternative form of the Binary Coded Decimal (BCD) system for encoding numbers. Where BCD encodes each decimal digit in normal binary, Aiken code uses the encoding shown below. This is supposed to be less prone to corruption. The following table shows the encoding of each decimal digit, D, in BCD and Aiken code: D BCD Aiken 0 0000 0000 1 0001 0001 2 0010 0010 3 0011 0011 4 0100 0100 5 0101 1011 (inverted 4) 6 0110 1100 (inverted 3) 7 0111 1101 (inverted 2) 8 1000 1110 (inverted 1) 9 1001 1111 (inverted 0) The Aiken code was probably designed by Howard Aiken in the 1940s or 1950s for use in data transmission. Compare: Gray code.
  • air pocket — a localized region of low air density or a descending air current, causing an aircraft to suffer an abrupt decrease in height
  • air police — members of an air force assigned to carry on police duties
  • air-cooled — An air-cooled engine is prevented from getting too hot when it is running by cool air that passes over it, rather than being cooled by a liquid.
  • akaryocyte — A cell that has no nucleus.
  • alacritous — cheerful readiness, promptness, or willingness: We accepted the invitation with alacrity.
  • alarmclock — Misspelling of alarm clock.
  • alaska cod — a cod, Gadus macrocephalus.
  • alcoholate — any of a class of compounds, analogous to hydrates, containing chemically combined alcohol, as chloral alcoholate, C 4 Cl 3 H 7 O 2 .
  • alcoholics — Plural form of alcoholic.
  • alcoholise — Alternative spelling of alcoholize.
  • alcoholism — People who suffer from alcoholism cannot stop drinking large quantities of alcohol.
  • alcoholize — to turn into alcoholic drink, as by fermenting or mixing with alcohol
  • alcoranist — a person who believes in an absolutely literal interpretation of the Koran.
  • ale conner — a local official appointed to examine the measure and quality of ale, beer, and bread
  • algolagnic — Of or relating to algolagnia.
  • all-comers — You use all-comers to refer to everyone who wants to take part in an activity, especially a competition.
  • alliaceous — of or relating to Allium, a genus of plants that have a strong onion or garlic smell and often have bulbs: family Alliaceae. The genus occurs in the N hemisphere and includes onion, garlic, leek, chive, and shallot
  • allocating — to set apart for a particular purpose; assign or allot: to allocate funds for new projects.
  • allocation — An allocation is an amount of something, especially money, that is given to a particular person or used for a particular purpose.
  • allocative — the act of allocating; apportionment.
  • allochthon — a geological formation not formed in the region where found and moved to its present location by tectonic forces. Compare autochthon (def 3).
  • allocution — a formal or authoritative speech or address, esp one that advises, informs, or exhorts
  • allogeneic — being genetically different, while belonging to the same species
  • allometric — Of or pertaining to allometry.
  • allopathic — of, relating to, or used in allopathy
  • allopatric — (of biological speciation or species) taking place or existing in areas that are geographically separated from one another
  • allophonic — any of the members of a class of speech sounds that, taken together, are commonly felt to be a phoneme, as the t- sounds of toe, stow, tree, hatpin, catcall, cats, catnip, button, metal, city; a speech sound constituting one of the phonetic manifestations or variants of a particular phoneme.
  • allostatic — Relating to allostasis.
  • allosteric — of, relating to, or designating a function of an enzyme in which the structure and activity of the enzyme are modified by the binding of a metabolic molecule
  • allotropic — of or characterized by allotropy
  • allowanced — Simple past tense and past participle of allowance.
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