10-letter words containing l, e, a, t
- clausewitz — Karl von (karl fɔn). 1780–1831, Prussian general, noted for his works on military strategy, esp Vom Kriege (1833)
- clavierist — a person who plays the clavier
- clay eater — (in the South Atlantic States) a term used to refer to a poor, uneducated person from a rural area.
- clay stone — argillite.
- claystones — argillite.
- clean-tech — using clean technology
- clearstory — clerestory
- clearwater — city in WC Fla., on the Gulf of Mexico: suburb of St. Petersburg: pop. 109,000
- clematises — Plural form of clematis.
- climateric — (obsolete) climatic.
- climatised — to acclimate to a new environment.
- climatized — to acclimate to a new environment.
- 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.
- clofibrate — a medication used in the treatment of heart disease
- cloth beam — a roller, located at the front of a loom, on which woven material is wound after it leaves the breast beam.
- cloth ears — a deaf person
- club steak — a small steak that is cut from the short loin of beef and contains no part of the tenderloin
- club wheat — a wheat, Triticum compactum, characterized by compact, club-shaped spikes, used for making pastry flour and the like.
- clubmaster — the manager of a gentlemen's club
- coagulated — Subject to coagulation.
- coagulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of coagulate.
- coal chute — an inclined channel or vertical passage down which coal may be dropped
- coal depot — a place at which coal may be deposited, stored, etc
- coalescent — to grow together or into one body: The two lakes coalesced into one.
- coalmaster — the owner of a colliery
- coastlines — Plural form of coastline.
- cockatiels — Plural form of cockatiel.
- cockleboat — cockboat.
- codetalker — A military communications specialist using codes based on an obscure language.
- coelacanth — a primitive marine bony fish of the genus Latimeria (subclass Crossopterygii), having fleshy limblike pectoral fins and occurring off the coast of E Africa: thought to be extinct until a living specimen was discovered in 1938
- coelomatic — of or relating to a coelom
- coequality — The condition of being coequal.
- colatitude — the complement of the celestial latitude
- cold sweat — If you are in a cold sweat, you are sweating and feel cold, usually because you are very afraid or nervous.
- 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)
- colemanite — a colourless or white glassy mineral consisting of hydrated calcium borate in monoclinic crystalline form. It occurs with and is a source of borax. Formula: Ca2B6O11.5H2O
- coleoptera — the largest order in the animal kingdom; the beetles
- collarette — a woman's fur or lace collar
- collatable — able to be collated
- collateral — Collateral is money or property which is used as a guarantee that someone will repay a loan.
- collegiate — Collegiate means belonging or relating to a college or to college students.
- colligated — Simple past tense and past participle of colligate.
- collimated — Simple past tense and past participle of collimate.
- collimates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of collimate.
- colliquate — to melt or cause to melt
- collocated — to set or place together, especially side by side.
- collocates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of collocate.
- colorature — (music) An elaborate melody, particularly in vocal music and especially in operatic singing of the 18th and 19th centuries, with runs, trills, leaps, etc.
- colorectal — of or relating to the colon and rectum