10-letter words containing l, e, c, o
- cloverleaf — A cloverleaf is an arrangement of curved roads, resembling a four-leaf clover, that joins two main roads.
- cloze test — test of the ability to understand text
- club-house — a building or room occupied by a club.
- clubfooted — Having a clubfoot.
- clubhouses — Plural form of clubhouse.
- clypeiform — having a rounded shield shape
- co-channel — denoting or relating to a radio transmission that is on the same frequency channel as another
- coagulable — that can be coagulated
- coagulases — Plural form of coagulase.
- 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
- coal field — an area containing significant coal deposits.
- coal miner — A coal miner is a person whose job is mining coal.
- coalescent — to grow together or into one body: The two lakes coalesced into one.
- coalescing — Present participle of coalesce.
- coalfields — Plural form of coalfield.
- coalheaver — One who feeds coal into a furnace.
- coalmaster — the owner of a colliery
- coastlines — Plural form of coastline.
- cobweblike — Resembling or characteristic of a cobweb.
- cochlearia — Plural form of cochlearium.
- 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."
- 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
- coeliotomy — (surgery) A surgical procedure for making an incision in the abdominal wall to gain access into the abdominal cavity. Performed either as exploratory surgery, or as the first step in an abdominal operation.
- coelomatic — of or relating to a coelom
- coeloscope — celoscope.
- coequality — The condition of being coequal.
- coercively — serving or tending to coerce.
- coffinlike — Resembling a coffin.
- cognisable — Alternative form of cognizable.
- cognizable — perceptible
- coherently — logically connected; consistent: a coherent argument.
- cohesively — characterized by or causing cohesion: a cohesive agent.
- 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.
- colatitude — the complement of the celestial latitude
- colchester — a town in E England, in NE Essex; university (1964). Pop: 104 390 (2001)
- colchicine — a pale-yellow crystalline alkaloid extracted from seeds or corms of the autumn crocus. It is used in the treatment of gout and to create polyploid plants by inhibiting chromosome separation during meiosis. Formula: C22H25NO6
- cold cream — an emulsion of water and fat used cosmetically for softening and cleansing the skin
- cold frame — A cold frame is a wooden frame with a glass top in which you grow small plants to protect them from cold weather.
- cold steel — the use of bayonets, knives, etc, in combat