10-letter words containing c, r, o, t
- courtierly — of a courtier
- courtliest — Superlative form of courtly.
- courtrooms — Plural form of courtroom.
- courtships — Plural form of courtship.
- courtyards — Plural form of courtyard.
- couturiere — a female dressmaker or dress designer
- couturiers — Plural form of couturier.
- couverture — Chocolate made with extra cocoa butter to give a high gloss, used for covering sweets and cakes.
- covariates — Plural form of covariate.
- covenanter — a person upholding the National Covenant of 1638 or the Solemn League and Covenant of 1643 between Scotland and England to establish and defend Presbyterianism
- covenantor — a party who makes a promise and who is to perform the obligation expressed in a covenant
- coventrate — To devastate by heavy bombing.
- cover note — a certificate issued by an insurance company stating that a policy is operative: used as a temporary measure between the commencement of cover and the issue of the policy
- cover text — a text that conceals an encoded message.
- covermount — A covermount is a small gift attached to the front cover of a magazine.
- covertness — concealed; secret; disguised.
- covertures — Plural form of coverture.
- cowcatcher — a metal frame on the front of a locomotive to clear the track of animals or other obstructions
- cowfeteria — a calf feeder with multiple teats
- crack root — (security, jargon) To defeat the security system of a Unix machine and gain root privileges thereby. The sort of thing a cracker wants to do.
- craniotomy — any surgical incision into the skull, esp to expose the brain for neurosurgery
- crapshoots — Plural form of crapshoot.
- crash boat — a small, fast boat used in rescue operations, especially for airplane crashes.
- creational — Of, or pertaining to creation.
- cremations — Plural form of cremation.
- crematoria — a crematory.
- cretaceous — consisting of or resembling chalk
- cribration — the action of sifting, esp (in pharmacy) to separate finer particles of a drug from coarser particles
- crinolette — a steel framework worn under the skirt to distend its rear section, fashionable in the mid-18th century
- crispation — the act of curling or state of being curled
- cristiform — crest-shaped
- criterions — Plural form of criterion.
- crocheting — Present participle of crochet.
- croissants — Plural form of croissant.
- crookedest — Superlative form of crooked.
- crookesite — a rare mineral, selenide of copper, thallium, and silver, (Cu, Tl, Ag) 2 Se, occurring in steel-gray, compact masses.
- cropduster — an aeroplane used to spray crops with fertilizer or insecticide
- croquettes — Plural form of croquette.
- cross rate — A cross rate is an exchange rate of two currencies expressed in a third different currency, such as the exchange rate between the euro and the yuan expressed in yen.
- cross talk — interference in one channel from another or others
- cross-foot — Accounting. to total figures horizontally across columns instead of vertically.
- cross-post — a message posted to two or more message boards or electronic mailing lists at the same time: Cross-posts are often greeted with hostility.
- cross-town — going across or following a route across a town
- cross-vote — to vote against one's own party
- crossbirth — any abnormal labour in which the child is positioned across the uterus
- crosscourt — (in racket games) directed to the diagonally opposite side of the court.
- crosshatch — to shade or hatch (forms, figures, etc) with two or more sets of parallel lines that cross one another
- crosslight — a light source which illuminates a subject from a perpendicular angle to another light
- crossmatch — (pathology) To test that the blood of a donor and recipient are compatible.
- crosspatch — a peevish bad-tempered person