10-letter words containing s, i, t, r
- calcsinter — travertine.
- calibrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of calibrate.
- cameralist — any of the mercantilist economists or public servants in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries who held that the economic power of a nation can be enhanced by increasing its monetary wealth, as by the accumulation of bullion.
- camorrista — a member of a camorra
- camp shirt — a short-sleeved shirt or blouse with a notched collar and usually two breast pockets.
- cannisters — Plural form of cannister.
- cant strip — an inclined or beveled strip of wood, for changing the pitch of a roof slope or for rounding out the angle between a flat roof and an adjoining parapet.
- capacitors — Plural form of capacitor.
- capistrate — (zoology, rare) hooded; cowled.
- caravanist — a group of travelers, as merchants or pilgrims, journeying together for safety in passing through deserts, hostile territory, etc.
- careerists — Plural form of careerist.
- carmustine — a toxic nitrosurea, C 5 H 9 Cl 2 N 3 O 2 , used in the treatment of a wide range of tumors.
- carnations — Plural form of carnation.
- carthusian — a member of an austere monastic order founded by Saint Bruno in 1084 near Grenoble, France
- cartilages — Plural form of cartilage.
- 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.
- cartridges — Plural form of cartridge.
- 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.
- 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.
- castrating — Present participle of castrate.
- castration — to remove the testes of; emasculate; geld.
- castratism — The practice of prepubescently castrating male humans as to preserve their alto or soprano voices.
- castratrix — (chiefly, used in philosophy, or, psychoanalysis) A female who castrates (either literally or metaphorically).
- 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
- catenaries — Plural form of catenary.
- cathartics — Plural form of cathartic.
- catoptrics — the branch of optics concerned with reflection, esp the formation of images by mirrors
- catskinner — an operator of a vehicle or machine with caterpillar treads.
- catwhisker — a sharply pointed, flexible wire used to make contact with a specific point on a semiconductor or a crystal detector
- cauterised — Simple past tense and past participle of cauterise.
- cauterizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cauterize.
- cautioners — Plural form of cautioner.
- cavortings — sexual frolics
- celeritous — (rare) Swift, speedy, fast.
- cemeteries — Plural form of cemetery.
- centauries — Plural form of centaury.
- centigrams — Plural form of centigram.
- centistere — one 100th of a stere.
- centralise — to draw to or gather about a center.
- centralism — Centralism is a way of governing a country, or organizing something such as industry, education, or politics, which involves having one central group of people who give instructions to everyone else.
- centralist — Centralist organizations govern a country or organize things using one central group of people who control and instruct everyone else.
- 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.
- centurions — Plural form of centurion.
- ceramicist — a person who makes ceramics.
- ceratopsid — a dinosaur belonging to the family Ceratopsidae, characterized by their parrot-like beaks, horns and neck frills