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10-letter words containing k, l, e

  • city clerk — a city official who maintains public records and vital statistics, issues licenses, etc.
  • clap skate — a type of speed skate with a blade attached at the heel by a hinge, allowing the full length of the blade to remain on the ice for a longer time and increasing skating speed.
  • clark cell — a cell having a mercury cathode surrounded by a paste of mercuric sulphate and a zinc anode in a saturated solution of zinc sulphate. Formerly used as a standard, its emf is 1.4345 volts
  • clarksdale — a city in NW Mississippi.
  • cleanskins — Plural form of cleanskin.
  • clerk-like — acting in a scholarly manner
  • clinkstone — a variety of phonolite that makes a metallic sound when struck
  • cloak fern — a type of fern, genus Notholaena, found in dry, rocky areas of temperate and tropical America, often used as an ornamental.
  • cloakmaker — Someone who makes cloaks.
  • clock face — the dial of an analogue clock, marked with divisions representing units of time
  • clock rate — (processor, benchmark)   The fundamental rate in cycles per second at which a computer performs its most basic operations such as adding two numbers or transfering a value from one register to another. The clock rate of a computer is normally determined by the frequency of a crystal. The original IBM PC, circa 1981, had a clock rate of 4.77 MHz (almost five million cycles/second). As of 1995, Intel's Pentium chip runs at 100 MHz (100 million cycles/second). The clock rate of a computer is only useful for providing comparisons between computer chips in the same processor family. An IBM PC with an Intel 486 CPU running at 50 MHz will be about twice as fast as one with the same CPU, memory and display running at 25 MHz. However, there are many other factors to consider when comparing different computers. Clock rate should not be used when comparing different computers or different processor families. Rather, some benchmark should be used. Clock rate can be very misleading, since the amount of work different computer chips can do in one cycle varies. For example, RISC CPUs tend to have simpler instructions than CISC CPUs (but higher clock rates) and pipelined processors execute more than one instruction per cycle.
  • clockmaker — a person who makes or mends clocks, watches, etc
  • close work — work that involves focusing your eyes on a nearby object, such as a book or computer screen, for a prolonged period of time
  • close-knit — A close-knit group of people are closely linked, do things together, and take an interest in each other.
  • cloth-like — resembling cloth
  • cloud peak — a mountain in N central Wyoming: highest peak in the Bighorn Mountains. 13,175 feet (4018 meters).
  • clove pink — carnation (sense 1)
  • clover key — feature key
  • club steak — a small steak that is cut from the short loin of beef and contains no part of the tenderloin
  • clump-like — resembling a clump
  • cobweblike — Resembling or characteristic of a cobweb.
  • cockatiels — Plural form of cockatiel.
  • cockeyedly — in a cockeyed manner
  • cockleboat — cockboat.
  • cockleburr — Alternative form of cocklebur.
  • cockleburs — Plural form of cocklebur.
  • cocksurely — In a cocksure manner.
  • cockwomble — (UK,slang,derogatory) A foolish or obnoxious person.
  • codetalker — A military communications specialist using codes based on an obscure language.
  • codewalker — (programming, tool)   A program component that analyses other programs. Compilers have codewalkers in their front ends; so do cross-reference generators and some database front ends. Other utility programs that try to do too much with source code may turn into codewalkers. As in "This new 'vgrind' feature would require a codewalker to implement."
  • coffinlike — Resembling a coffin.
  • cokebottle — (character, humour)   /kohk'bot-l/ Any unusual character, particularly one you can't type because it isn't on your keyboard. MIT people used to complain about the "control-meta-cokebottle" commands at SAIL, and SAIL people complained about the "altmode-altmode-cokebottle" commands at MIT. After the demise of the space-cadet keyboard, "cokebottle" was used less, but was often used to describe weird or non-intuitive keystrokes. The OSF/Motif window manager, "mwm" keystroke for switching to the default keybindings and behaviour is control-meta-bang. Since exclamation mark might be thought to look like a Coke bottle, Motif hackers referred to this keystroke as "cokebottle". See also quadruple bucky.
  • coldcocked — to knock (someone) unconscious, as with the fist.
  • cook inlet — an inlet of the Pacific on the coast of S Alaska: part of the Gulf of Alaska
  • cookeville — a town in central Tennessee.
  • cookieless — Without cookies (the food).
  • corncockle — a European caryophyllaceous plant, Agrostemma githago, that has reddish-purple flowers and grows in cornfields and by roadsides
  • cornflakes — a breakfast cereal made from toasted maize, eaten with milk, sugar, etc
  • corpselike — Resembling a corpse.
  • cow killer — a large velvet ant (Dasymutilla occidentalis) of the S and E U.S.: the wingless female has a powerful sting
  • cradlewalk — a garden walkway covered by arched trees
  • craigfluke — a common name for the grey sole fish Glyptocephalus cynoglossus
  • craterlike — Resembling a crater or some aspect of one.
  • creakingly — With a creaking sound.
  • crewelwork — embroidery done with crewel
  • cuckoldize — to make (a married man) into a cuckold
  • cycle rack — a series of metal frameworks standing on the ground for holding bicycles upright
  • daggerlike — resembling a dagger in shape or form
  • dark slide — Also called draw slide. a black plastic, metal, or fabric sheet that is inserted into a film holder to protect the film from light.
  • dark-field — of or relating to the illumination of an object by which it is seen, through a microscope, as bright against a dark background.
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