10-letter words containing o, c, e, l
- clean wool — wool that has been scoured to remove wax
- clearstory — clerestory
- clerestory — a row of windows in the upper part of the wall of a church that divides the nave from the aisle, set above the aisle roof
- cleromancy — a divination involving dice-throwing or lot-casting
- clingstone — a fruit, such as certain peaches, in which the flesh tends to adhere to the stone
- clinkstone — a variety of phonolite that makes a metallic sound when struck
- clinometer — an instrument used in surveying for measuring an angle of inclination
- cliometric — Of or pertaining to cliometrics.
- clitorises — the erectile organ of the vulva, homologous to the penis of the male.
- 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.
- clobbering — Present participle of clobber.
- 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
- clodhopper — a clumsy person; lout
- clofibrate — a medication used in the treatment of heart disease
- clog dance — a dance in which clogs are worn to beat out the rhythm
- clogginess — The state or quality of being cloggy.
- cloistered — If you have a cloistered way of life, you live quietly and are not involved in the normal busy life of the world around you.
- cloisterer — a person who lives in a cloister
- cloistress — a nun
- clomiphene — a drug that stimulates the production of egg cells in the ovary: used to treat infertility in women
- clonazepam — a medication used to treat conditions that involve seizures
- clonotypes — Plural form of clonotype.
- close call — a narrow escape from danger
- close down — to cease or cause to cease operations
- close shot — closeup (def 2).
- close with — to engage in battle with an enemy
- 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.
- closed set — a set that includes all the values obtained by application of a given operation to its members
- closed-end — of or pertaining to an investment company issuing a fixed number of shares which are traded on an exchange
- closedness — The property of being closed.
- closedowns — Plural form of closedown.
- closestool — Alternative form of close-stool.
- 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
- cloth-like — resembling cloth
- clothespin — A clothespin is the same as a clothes peg.
- clottiness — the condition of being clotty
- cloud base — the apparent lower surface of a cloud or cloud layer.
- cloud nine — a condition of great joy or bliss; euphoric state
- cloud over — If the sky clouds over, it becomes covered with clouds.
- cloud peak — a mountain in N central Wyoming: highest peak in the Bighorn Mountains. 13,175 feet (4018 meters).
- cloudberry — a creeping Eurasian herbaceous rosaceous plant, Rubus chamaemorus, with white flowers and orange berry-like fruits (drupelets)
- cloudiness — full of or overcast by clouds: a cloudy sky.
- cloudscape — a picturesque formation of clouds
- clove pink — carnation (sense 1)
- clover key — feature key