10-letter words containing i, a, t, r, c
- carthusian — a member of an austere monastic order founded by Saint Bruno in 1084 near Grenoble, France
- cartilages — Plural form of cartilage.
- cartonnier — an ornamental box for papers, usually for placing on a desk.
- cartooning — a sketch or drawing, usually humorous, as in a newspaper or periodical, symbolizing, satirizing, or caricaturing some action, subject, or person of popular interest.
- cartoonish — like a cartoon, esp in being one-dimensional, brightly coloured, or exaggerated
- cartoonist — A cartoonist is a person whose job is to draw cartoons for newspapers and magazines.
- cartophile — a cartophilist
- cartophily — the hobby of collecting cigarette cards
- cartridges — Plural form of cartridge.
- cartwright — a person who makes carts
- cash ratio — the ratio of cash on hand to total deposits that by law or custom commercial banks must maintain
- castigator — to criticize or reprimand severely.
- castor oil — Castor oil is a thick yellow oil that is obtained from the seeds of the castor oil plant. It has a very unpleasant taste and in former times was used as a medicine.
- castrating — Present participle of castrate.
- castration — to remove the testes of; emasculate; geld.
- castratism — The practice of prepubescently castrating male humans as to preserve their alto or soprano voices.
- castratrix — (chiefly, used in philosophy, or, psychoanalysis) A female who castrates (either literally or metaphorically).
- cat litter — absorbent material, often in a granular form, that is used to line a receptacle in which a domestic cat can urinate and defecate indoors
- cat-harpin — any of a number of short ropes or rods for gathering in shrouds near their tops.
- cataphoric — the use of a word or phrase to refer to a following word or group of words, as the use of the phrase as follows.
- catarrhine — (of apes and Old World monkeys) having the nostrils set close together and opening to the front of the face
- catch fire — to ignite
- catechizer — One who catechizes.
- categorial — of or relating to a category
- categories — any general or comprehensive division; a class.
- categorise — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- categorist — a person who categorizes or inserts items in a list
- categorize — If you categorize people or things, you divide them into sets or you say which set they belong to.
- catenarian — the downward curve formed by chain or cord being fixed at two points
- catenaries — Plural form of catenary.
- cathartics — Plural form of cathartic.
- catoptrics — the branch of optics concerned with reflection, esp the formation of images by mirrors
- catskinner — an operator of a vehicle or machine with caterpillar treads.
- catwhisker — a sharply pointed, flexible wire used to make contact with a specific point on a semiconductor or a crystal detector
- cauterised — Simple past tense and past participle of cauterise.
- cauterized — Simple past tense and past participle of cauterize.
- cauterizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cauterize.
- cautionary — A cautionary story or a cautionary note to a story is one that is intended to give a warning to people.
- cautioners — Plural form of cautioner.
- cavortings — sexual frolics
- cedar city — a town in SW Utah.
- cemeterial — of or relating to a cemetery or to burial.
- centaurian — resembling or of the nature of a centaur
- centauries — Plural form of centaury.
- centigrade — Centigrade is a scale for measuring temperature, in which water freezes at 0 degrees and boils at 100 degrees. It is represented by the symbol °C.
- centigrams — Plural form of centigram.
- centralise — to draw to or gather about a center.
- centralism — Centralism is a way of governing a country, or organizing something such as industry, education, or politics, which involves having one central group of people who give instructions to everyone else.
- centralist — Centralist organizations govern a country or organize things using one central group of people who control and instruct everyone else.
- centrality — the state or condition of being central