10-letter words containing n, a, o, t
- cotransfer — a simultaneous transfer of multiple genes
- cottontail — A cottontail is a type of rabbit commonly found in North America.
- counteract — To counteract something means to reduce its effect by doing something that produces an opposite effect.
- counterair — (military) Attacking the air force of an opposing power.
- counterman — a man who works on a lunch counter or behind the counter of a cafe
- counterwar — War waged in response to another war.
- countryman — Your countrymen are people from your own country.
- courantyne — a river in N South America, rising in S Guyana and flowing north to the Atlantic, forming the boundary between Guyana and Surinam. Length: 765 km (475 miles)
- court hand — a style of handwriting formerly used in English law courts
- courtesans — Plural form of courtesan.
- covalently — the number of electron pairs that an atom can share with other atoms.
- covenantal — an agreement, usually formal, between two or more persons to do or not do something specified.
- covenanted — an agreement, usually formal, between two or more persons to do or not do something specified.
- covenantee — the person to whom the promise in a covenant is made
- covenanter — a person upholding the National Covenant of 1638 or the Solemn League and Covenant of 1643 between Scotland and England to establish and defend Presbyterianism
- covenantor — a party who makes a promise and who is to perform the obligation expressed in a covenant
- coventrate — To devastate by heavy bombing.
- craniotomy — any surgical incision into the skull, esp to expose the brain for neurosurgery
- creational — Of, or pertaining to creation.
- cremations — Plural form of cremation.
- cribration — the action of sifting, esp (in pharmacy) to separate finer particles of a drug from coarser particles
- crispation — the act of curling or state of being curled
- croissants — Plural form of croissant.
- crown wart — a disease of alfalfa and clover, characterized by galls around the base of the stem, caused by several fungi of the genus Urophlyctis.
- cruciation — (obsolete) torture; torment.
- crustation — the action of forming a crust
- ctenophora — the phylum comprising the comb jellies.
- cumulation — the act of cumulating; accumulation.
- cunctation — delay
- cunctatory — prone to delaying
- custodians — Plural form of custodian.
- cyanometer — an instrument used for measuring the blueness of the sky
- cyanopathy — (medicine) A disease in which the surface of the body turns blue, usually arising from a malformation of the heart, which causes an imperfect arterialization of the blood.
- cyanophyta — a phylum, or subkingdom, in the kingdom Monera, comprising the blue-green algae.
- cyanophyte — a former name for a cyanobacterium
- cyanotypes — Plural form of cyanotype.
- damnations — Plural form of damnation.
- dantrolene — a toxic orange powder, C 14 H 10 N 4 O 5 , used to control muscle spasms, as in the treatment of local trauma, multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, or other neurological disorders.
- darlington — an industrial town in NE England in Darlington unitary authority, S Durham: developed mainly with the opening of the Stockton-Darlington railway (1825). Pop: 86 082 (2001)
- data point — a single fact or piece of information; a datum: Other data points, such as crime statistics, are available from the state government.
- datamation — the processing of data by computers
- datapoints — Plural form of datapoint.
- davenports — Plural form of davenport.
- dead point — dead center
- deaeration — the act of extracting a gas from a liquid
- dealbation — the process of bleaching or making white
- decathlons — Plural form of decathlon.
- decimation — to destroy a great number or proportion of: The population was decimated by a plague.
- declinator — a piece of apparatus that establishes the measure of a plane's deviation from the prime vertical or the meridian
- decolorant — able to decolour or bleach