11-letter words containing t, c
- climatology — the study of climate
- clingstones — Plural form of clingstone.
- clinometers — Plural form of clinometer.
- clinometric — (of crystals) having oblique angles between one or all axes.
- cliometrics — the study of economic history using statistics and computer analysis
- clock in at — If something such as a CD or film clocks in at a particular amount of time, it is that amount of time long.
- clock tower — A clock tower is a tall, narrow building with a clock at the top.
- clock watch — a watch that strikes the hours. Compare repeater (def 3).
- clock-timer — timer (def 4).
- cloistering — Present participle of cloister.
- clorazepate — a benzodiazepine, C 16 H 13 ClN 2 O 4 , used in the treatment of chronic anxiety states and as an adjunct in the treatment of alcohol withdrawal.
- close quote — (used by a speaker to indicate the end of a quotation.)
- close to/on — Close to a particular amount or distance means slightly less than that amount or distance. In British English, you can also say close on a particular amount or distance.
- close up/to — If you look at something close up or close to, you look at it when you are very near to it.
- close-stool — a wooden stool containing a covered chamber pot
- closed term — (theory) A term with no free variables.
- closefisted — stingy
- clostridial — any of several rod-shaped, spore-forming, anaerobic bacteria of the genus Clostridium, found in soil and in the intestinal tract of humans and animals.
- clostridium — any anaerobic typically rod-shaped bacterium of the genus Clostridium, occurring mainly in soil, but also in the intestines of humans and animals: family Bacillaceae. The genus includes the species causing botulism and tetanus
- cloth-eared — deaf
- clothes peg — A clothes peg is a small device which you use to fasten clothes to a washing line.
- clothes-peg — a clothespin.
- clothes-pin — a device, such as a forked piece of wood or plastic, for fastening articles to a clothesline.
- clothesless — Without clothes.
- clothesline — A clothesline is a thin rope on which you hang washing so that it can dry.
- clothespins — Plural form of clothespin.
- clothespole — a pole for supporting a clothesline
- clotrimazol — Alternative form of clotrimazole.
- cloudbursts — Plural form of cloudburst.
- clove hitch — a knot or hitch used for securing a rope to a spar, post, or larger rope
- cloven foot — a foot divided by a cleft, as in the ox, deer, and sheep
- clown white — white facial makeup used by performers, as clowns.
- club-footed — a congenitally deformed or distorted foot.
- cluster cup — aecium.
- cluster fly — a dipterous fly, Pollenia rudis, that tends to gather in large numbers in attics in the autumn: family Calliphoridae. The larvae are parasitic in earthworms
- cluster leg — a leg having the form of a cluster of columns or shafts.
- clutch disk — The clutch disk or clutch plate is the rotating part of the clutch, to which the friction material is attached.
- clutch slip — Clutch slip is a faulty condition in which there is not enough friction in the clutch, so that engine speed rises without a corresponding increase in road speed.
- cnidoblasts — the cell within which a nematocyst is developed.
- co-director — to direct (a movie or other performance) with another or others.
- co-location — (networking) /koh'loh-kay`sh*n/ or /koh`loh-kay'sh*n/ (Or "colocation") Providing network connections such as Internet leased lines to several servers housed together in a server room. This is typically provided as a commercial service. The hyphenated form is correct and the most common on the web, followed by "colocation". "collocation" (/ko`loh-kay'sh*n/, not /koh'-/), is an old word with a similar meaning. It is common in dictionaries and follows the pattern of other Latin-derived words like collect, college, and collate, but is least common on the web. The verbal form is "to colocate" or "co-locate" (commonly /koh'loh`kayt/, also (US) /koh`loh'kayt/).
- co-ordinate — If you co-ordinate an activity, you organize the various people and things involved in it.
- co-relation — correlation
- coacervates — Plural form of coacervate.
- coach party — a group of people who travel together on a coach trip
- coach-built — (of a vehicle) having specially built bodywork
- coade stone — a ceramic imitation of carved stonework popular in England around 1800.
- coadjutants — Plural form of coadjutant.
- coadunation — (obsolete) union into a single body or mass; unity.
- coadventure — adventure in which two or more share.