10-letter words containing r, o, t, s, c
- cabriolets — Plural form of cabriolet.
- cagliostro — Count Alessandro di (alesˈsandro di), original name Giuseppe Balsamo. 1743–95, Italian adventurer and magician, who was imprisoned for life by the Inquisition for his association with freemasonry
- camorrista — a member of a camorra
- cantor set — the set obtained from the closed interval from 0 to 1 by removing the middle third from the interval, then the middle third from each of the two remaining sets, and continuing the process indefinitely.
- capacitors — Plural form of capacitor.
- car stereo — a stereo built into the dashboard of an automobile
- carbonates — a salt or ester of carbonic acid.
- carnations — Plural form of carnation.
- carpostome — the opening in the cystocarp of certain red algae through which the spores are discharged.
- cart horse — A cart horse is a large, powerful horse that is used to pull carts or farm machinery.
- carthorses — Plural form of carthorse.
- cartograms — Plural form of cartogram.
- cartoneros — Plural form of cartonero.
- cartoonish — like a cartoon, esp in being one-dimensional, brightly coloured, or exaggerated
- cartoonist — A cartoonist is a person whose job is to draw cartoons for newspapers and magazines.
- cartouches — Plural form of cartouche.
- cash ratio — the ratio of cash on hand to total deposits that by law or custom commercial banks must maintain
- castigator — to criticize or reprimand severely.
- castleford — a town in N England, in Wakefield unitary authority, West Yorkshire on the River Aire. Pop: 37 525 (2001)
- castor oil — Castor oil is a thick yellow oil that is obtained from the seeds of the castor oil plant. It has a very unpleasant taste and in former times was used as a medicine.
- castration — to remove the testes of; emasculate; geld.
- castrators — to remove the testes of; emasculate; geld.
- castratory — of or relating to castration
- catalogers — Plural form of cataloger.
- catchwords — Plural form of catchword.
- categories — any general or comprehensive division; a class.
- categorise — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- categorist — a person who categorizes or inserts items in a list
- catoptrics — the branch of optics concerned with reflection, esp the formation of images by mirrors
- cautioners — Plural form of cautioner.
- cavortings — sexual frolics
- celeritous — (rare) Swift, speedy, fast.
- centermost — Alternative form of centremost.
- centremost — Closest to the centre.
- centrioles — Plural form of centriole.
- centronics — (company, hardware, printer) A company in Hudson N.H., USA, best known for designing the parallel interface for printers with the same name, found on many microcomputers.
- centrosome — a small body in a cell where microtubules are produced. In animal cells it surrounds the centriole
- centurions — Plural form of centurion.
- ceratopsid — a dinosaur belonging to the family Ceratopsidae, characterized by their parrot-like beaks, horns and neck frills
- ceratosaur — a carnivorous, swift-running North American theropod dinosaur of the genus Ceratosaurus and closely related genera, of the Jurassic Period, having a large skull with a short horn between the nostrils and a bony knob in front of each eye, and reaching a length of 20 feet (6.1 meter).
- charleston — The Charleston is a lively dance that was popular in the 1920s.
- charlottes — Plural form of charlotte.
- charthouse — the compartment on a ship or boat where charts are kept
- chernovtsy — a city in Ukraine on the Prut River: formerly under Polish, Austro-Hungarian, and Romanian rule; part of the Soviet Union (1947–91). Pop: 237 000 (2005 est)
- chervonets — (formerly) a Soviet monetary unit and gold coin worth ten roubles
- chesterton — G(ilbert) K(eith). 1874–1936, English essayist, novelist, poet, and critic
- choirstall — one of the benches for the choir of a church, cathedral, etc
- chondrites — Plural form of chondrite.
- chondritis — a swelling and tenderness of cartilage
- choreutics — a system that analyzes form in movement, developed by Rudolf von Laban (1879–1958), Hungarian choreographer and dance theorist.