10-letter words containing r, e, c, a, l
- clathrates — Plural form of clathrate.
- clattering — to make a loud, rattling sound, as that produced by hard objects striking rapidly one against the other: The shutters clattered in the wind.
- clavierist — a person who plays the clavier
- clawhammer — denoting a style of plucking the strings of a banjo in which the hand forms a clawlike shape
- clay eater — (in the South Atlantic States) a term used to refer to a poor, uneducated person from a rural area.
- clean room — an environment, typically used in manufacturing or scientific research, in which environmental contaminants are kept to an absolute minimum
- clear away — When you clear things away or clear away, you put away the things that you have been using, especially for eating or cooking.
- clear-eyed — discerning; perceptive
- clear-fell — to cut down all of the trees in (a wood, part of a wood, or throughout an area of land)
- clearances — Plural form of clearance.
- clearfield — a town in N Utah.
- clearstory — clerestory
- clearwater — city in WC Fla., on the Gulf of Mexico: suburb of St. Petersburg: pop. 109,000
- clearwings — Plural form of clearwing.
- clepsydras — Plural form of clepsydra.
- clergiable — (of a criminal charge) able to be contested in a clerical rather than a secular court
- clerically — In a clerical manner; as a cleric.
- cleromancy — a divination involving dice-throwing or lot-casting
- climateric — (obsolete) climatic.
- clip frame — a picture frame that is held together by clips attaching the glass to the backing
- 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.
- 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
- clofibrate — a medication used in the treatment of heart disease
- cloth ears — a deaf person
- cloverleaf — A cloverleaf is an arrangement of curved roads, resembling a four-leaf clover, that joins two main roads.
- clubmaster — the manager of a gentlemen's club
- 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.
- 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."
- 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-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)
- coleoptera — the largest order in the animal kingdom; the beetles
- coleorhiza — a protective sheath around the radicle in grasses
- collarbone — Your collarbones are the two long bones which run from throat to your shoulders.
- collarette — a woman's fur or lace collar
- collarless — A collarless shirt or jacket has no collar.
- collateral — Collateral is money or property which is used as a guarantee that someone will repay a loan.
- 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
- colourable — capable of being coloured
- colportage — the work of a colporteur.
- columellar — (biology, anatomy) Of or pertaining to a columella.
- commercial — Commercial means involving or relating to the buying and selling of goods.