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10-letter words containing t, e, a, c

  • 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.
  • cameration — vaulting
  • camp stove — a portable stove used for cooking or heating, especially outdoors.
  • campestral — of or relating to open fields or country
  • camphorate — to apply, treat with, or impregnate with camphor
  • campimeter — an instrument for determining the visual field.
  • campimetry — a technique for assessing the central part of the visual field
  • camptonite — a lamprophyric rock occurring in dikes and composed of labradorite, pyroxene, sodic hornblende and olivine.
  • can't help — If you say you can't help thinking something, you are expressing your opinion in an indirect way, often because you think it seems rude.
  • cancel out — If one thing cancels out another thing, the two things have opposite effects, so that when they are combined no real effect is produced.
  • cancelbots — Plural form of cancelbot.
  • cancellate — having a spongy or porous internal structure
  • cancerette — (slang, derogatory) A cigarette.
  • cancerroot — any parasitic plant of the genus Orobanche, especially O. uniflora, of North America, having pale, leafless stalks bearing a single white or purplish flower.
  • candescent — glowing or starting to glow with heat
  • candidated — a person who seeks an office, honor, etc.: a candidate for governor.
  • candidates — Plural form of candidate.
  • candlenuts — Plural form of candlenut.
  • canecutter — any of several species of large cottontails inhabiting swamps or marshes.
  • cankerroot — goldthread.
  • cannetille — a gold or silver thread with a spiral twist, formerly much used in embroidery.
  • cannisters — Plural form of cannister.
  • cannulated — Simple past tense and past participle of cannulate.
  • canonicate — the office or rank of a canon; canonry
  • cant frame — any of several frames bracketed aft of the transom of a ship and inclined slightly to the fore-and-aft direction.
  • cantabiles — Plural form of cantabile.
  • cantalever — any rigid structural member projecting from a vertical support, especially one in which the projection is great in relation to the depth, so that the upper part is in tension and the lower part in compression.
  • cantaloupe — A cantaloupe is a type of melon.
  • cantatrice — a female singer, esp a professional soloist
  • canteloube — (Marie) Joseph (French ʒozɛf). 1879–1957, French composer, best known for his Chants d'Auvergne (1923–30)
  • canterbury — a late 18th-century low wooden stand with partitions for holding cutlery and plates: often mounted on casters
  • cantilenas — Plural form of cantilena.
  • cantilever — A cantilever is a long piece of metal or wood used in a structure such as a bridge. One end is fastened to something and the other end is used to support part of the structure.
  • cantillate — to chant (passages of the Hebrew Scriptures) according to the traditional Jewish melody
  • cantonized — canton (def 7).
  • cantonment — A cantonment is a group of buildings or a camp where soldiers live.
  • 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.
  • canzonetta — a short cheerful or lively song, typically of the 16th to 18th centuries
  • capacitate — to make legally competent
  • capacities — the ability to receive or contain: This hotel has a large capacity.
  • capacitive — of electrical capacitance
  • cape coast — a seaport in S Ghana, on the Gulf of Guinea, 75 miles (121 km) SW of Accra.
  • cape dutch — (in South Africa) a distinctive style of furniture or architecture
  • cape flats — the strip of low-lying land in South Africa joining the Cape Peninsula proper to the African mainland
  • cape wrath — a promontory at the NW extremity of the Scottish mainland
  • cape-wrath — Cape, a high promontory in NW Scotland: most NW point on mainland.
  • capistrate — (zoology, rare) hooded; cowled.
  • capitalise — to write or print in capital letters letters or with an initial capital letter.
  • capitalize — If you capitalize on a situation, you use it to gain some advantage for yourself.
  • capitative — Per head; capitatim.
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