10-letter words containing t, i, o, n
- 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.
- cessations — Plural form of cessation.
- cestoidean — one of the Cestoda, a class of tapeworm
- chain shot — cannon shot comprising two balls or half balls joined by a chain, much used formerly, esp in naval warfare to destroy rigging
- check into — to stop or arrest the motion of suddenly or forcibly: He checked the horse at the edge of the cliff.
- checkpoint — A checkpoint is a place where traffic is stopped so that it can be checked.
- chevrotain — any small timid ruminant artiodactyl mammal of the genera Tragulus and Hyemoschus, of S and SE Asia: family Tragulidae. They resemble rodents, and the males have long tusklike upper canines
- chief town — a town or city that is the administrative centre of a region
- chilognath — any member of the diplopod subclass Chilognatha, including millipedes having exoskeletons heavily sclerotized with calcium carbonate.
- chimneypot — a short pipe on the top of a chimney, which increases the draught and directs the smoke upwards
- chitarrone — a large lute with a double neck in common use during the baroque period, esp in Italy
- chittagong — a port in E Bangladesh, on the Bay of Bengal: industrial centre. Pop: 4 171 000 (2005 est)
- chlorinate — to combine or treat (a substance) with chlorine
- chlorinity — the amount of chlorine present in water, esp sea-water
- chokepoint — a place of greatest congestion and often hazard; bottleneck.
- chondrites — Plural form of chondrite.
- chondritic — (geology) Of or pertaining to a chondrite.
- chondritis — a swelling and tenderness of cartilage
- chromatins — Plural form of chromatin.
- chronicity — constant; habitual; inveterate: a chronic liar.
- ciguatoxin — a toxin found in seafood
- cineration — The reducing of anything to ashes by combustion; cinefaction.
- circuition — (archaic) The act of going round; a circuit, an encircling.
- cismontane — on this (the writer's or speaker's) side of the mountains, esp the Alps
- cispontine — on the near side of the bridge
- citational — pertaining to citation
- citronalis — lemon verbena.
- citronella — a tropical Asian grass, Cymbopogon (or Andropogon) nardus, with bluish-green lemon-scented leaves
- clactonian — one of the Lower Palaeolithic cultures found in England, characterized by the use of chopper tools
- claymation — the techniques of animation applied to clay models
- clingstone — a fruit, such as certain peaches, in which the flesh tends to adhere to the stone
- clinkstone — a variety of phonolite that makes a metallic sound when struck
- clinometer — an instrument used in surveying for measuring an angle of inclination
- clinostats — Plural form of clinostat.
- clip joint — a place, such as a nightclub or restaurant, in which customers are overcharged
- close-knit — A close-knit group of people are closely linked, do things together, and take an interest in each other.
- clothespin — A clothespin is the same as a clothes peg.
- clottiness — the condition of being clotty
- cnidoblast — any of the cells of a coelenterate that contain nematocysts
- cnidocysts — a nematocyst.
- co-captain — a joint captain
- co-edition — a title published jointly by two publishers
- co-routine — a section of a computer program similar to but differing from a subroutine in that it can be left and re-entered at any point
- coalitions — Plural form of coalition.
- coaptation — the joining or reuniting of two surfaces, esp the ends of a broken bone or the edges of a wound
- coastlines — Plural form of coastline.
- coatimundi — The ring-tailed coati, Nasua nasua, a south American carnivore.
- cocreation — Joint creation.
- codominant — (of genes) having both alleles expressed equally in the phenotype of the organism