10-letter words containing d, a, t, c, o
- cantonized — canton (def 7).
- carbolated — containing carbolic acid
- carbonated — Carbonated drinks are drinks that contain small bubbles of carbon dioxide.
- cardiotomy — (surgery) The procedure of making an incision in the heart.
- carotenoid — any of a group of red or yellow pigments, including carotenes, found in plants and certain animal tissues
- castleford — a town in N England, in Wakefield unitary authority, West Yorkshire on the River Aire. Pop: 37 525 (2001)
- cat around — to search promiscuously for sexual partners; be promiscuous
- catalogued — a list or record, as of items for sale or courses at a university, systematically arranged and often including descriptive material: a stamp catalog.
- catch cold — to become ill with a cold
- catch-cord — a cord or wire located near a selvage, used to form a loop or deflect the filling yarn not intended to be woven permanently in with the regular selvage.
- catchwords — Plural form of catchword.
- category d — (of a prisoner) regarded as sufficiently trustworthy to be kept under open prison conditions
- catostomid — (zoology) Any member of the Catostomidae.
- cattle dog — a catalogue
- celadonite — a hydrous silicate of iron and potassium; an iron-rich soft mica.
- centroidal — of or relating to a centroid
- ceratopsid — a dinosaur belonging to the family Ceratopsidae, characterized by their parrot-like beaks, horns and neck frills
- cestoidean — one of the Cestoda, a class of tapeworm
- chadderton — a town in NW England, in Oldham unitary authority, in Greater Manchester. Pop: 33 001 (2001)
- chardonnet — (Louis Marie) Hilaire Bernigaud (ilɛr bɛrniɡo), Comte de. 1839–1924, French chemist and industrialist who produced rayon, the first artificial fibre
- chloridate — to expose to or prepare with a chloride
- chromatids — Plural form of chromatid.
- chromatoid — Resembling chromatin.
- clostridia — Plural form of clostridium.
- 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
- cnidoblast — any of the cells of a coelenterate that contain nematocysts
- coadjacent — something that is adjacent to another thing in experience or thought
- coadjutant — cooperating
- coadjutors — Plural form of coadjutor.
- coadjuvant — Cooperating.
- coagulated — Subject to coagulation.
- coal depot — a place at which coal may be deposited, stored, etc
- coarctated — Simple past tense and past participle of coarctate.
- coastguard — A coastguard is an official who watches the sea near a coast in order to get help for sailors when they need it and to stop illegal activities.
- coastlands — Plural form of coastland.
- coastwards — in the direction of the coast
- coat dress — a lightweight button-through garment that can be worn either as a dress or as a coat
- coatbridge — an industrial town in central Scotland, in North Lanarkshire. Pop: 41 170 (2001)
- coated pit — a clathrin-lined depression in the outer surface of a cell membrane, formed of receptors and their specific ligands, that becomes a coated vesicle upon endocytosis.
- coatimundi — The ring-tailed coati, Nasua nasua, a south American carnivore.
- coauthored — one of two or more joint authors.
- cocked hat — A cocked hat is a hat with three corners that used to be worn with some uniforms.
- codetalker — A military communications specialist using codes based on an obscure language.
- codominant — (of genes) having both alleles expressed equally in the phenotype of the organism
- colatitude — the complement of the celestial latitude
- cold start — the reloading of a program or operating system
- 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-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)