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10-letter words containing r, c, o, l

  • cleromancy — a divination involving dice-throwing or lot-casting
  • climograph — A chart that summarizes the climate of a place by superimposing a line graph representing average monthly temperature on a bar chart representing average monthly precipitation.
  • clinograph — (in mining, construction, etc.) an instrument that records the deviation of boreholes or the like from the vertical.
  • clinometer — an instrument used in surveying for measuring an angle of inclination
  • cliometric — Of or pertaining to cliometrics.
  • clipboards — Plural form of clipboard.
  • clistocarp — cleistothecium.
  • 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.
  • cloak-room — a room in which outer garments, hats, umbrellas, etc., may be left temporarily, as in a club, restaurant, etc.; checkroom.
  • cloakmaker — Someone who makes cloaks.
  • cloakrooms — Plural form of cloakroom.
  • clobbering — Present participle of clobber.
  • clock card — a card used by employees to register their time of arrival at, and time of departure from, their workplace
  • 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.
  • clock-hour — a full 60-minute period, as of class instruction or therapeutic consultation. Compare hour (def 11).
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • clostridia — Plural form of clostridium.
  • cloth ears — a deaf person
  • cloth yard — a medieval unit of measure for cloth, fixed at 37 inches by Edward VI of England: also used as a length for longbow arrows
  • cloud over — If the sky clouds over, it becomes covered with clouds.
  • cloud rack — a group of moving clouds
  • cloudberry — a creeping Eurasian herbaceous rosaceous plant, Rubus chamaemorus, with white flowers and orange berry-like fruits (drupelets)
  • cloudburst — A cloudburst is a sudden, very heavy fall of rain.
  • clover key — feature key
  • cloverleaf — A cloverleaf is an arrangement of curved roads, resembling a four-leaf clover, that joins two main roads.
  • clypeiform — having a rounded shield shape
  • co-orbital — noting or pertaining to two or more celestial bodies that share or almost share an orbit.
  • co-ordinal — belonging to the same order.
  • coagulator — a substance that produces or aids coagulation.
  • coal miner — A coal miner is a person whose job is mining coal.
  • coalheaver — One who feeds coal into a furnace.
  • coalmaster — the owner of a colliery
  • cochlearia — Plural form of cochlearium.
  • cockalorum — a self-important little man
  • cockleburr — Alternative form of cocklebur.
  • cockleburs — Plural form of cocklebur.
  • cocksurely — In a cocksure manner.
  • 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."
  • coercively — serving or tending to coerce.
  • coherently — logically connected; consistent: a coherent argument.
  • colchester — a town in E England, in NE Essex; university (1964). Pop: 104 390 (2001)
  • cold color — a paint fixed to glass or to a ceramic object without firing.
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