10-letter words containing t, o, r, s, l
- 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.
- catalogers — Plural form of cataloger.
- celeritous — (rare) Swift, speedy, fast.
- centrioles — Plural form of centriole.
- charleston — The Charleston is a lively dance that was popular in the 1920s.
- charlottes — Plural form of charlotte.
- choirstall — one of the benches for the choir of a church, cathedral, etc
- chrysolite — a yellowish-green gem derived chiefly from varieties of olivine
- chrysotile — a green, grey, or white fibrous mineral, a variety of serpentine, that is an important source of commercial asbestos. Formula: Mg3Si2O5(OH)4
- citronalis — lemon verbena.
- clearstory — clerestory
- clerestory — a row of windows in the upper part of the wall of a church that divides the nave from the aisle, set above the aisle roof
- clistocarp — cleistothecium.
- clitorises — the erectile organ of the vulva, homologous to the penis of the male.
- cloistered — If you have a cloistered way of life, you live quietly and are not involved in the normal busy life of the world around you.
- cloisterer — a person who lives in a cloister
- cloistress — a nun
- clostridia — Plural form of clostridium.
- cloth ears — a deaf person
- cloudburst — A cloudburst is a sudden, very heavy fall of rain.
- coalmaster — the owner of a colliery
- colchester — a town in E England, in NE Essex; university (1964). Pop: 104 390 (2001)
- cold start — the reloading of a program or operating system
- cold store — A cold store is a building or room which is artificially cooled so that food can be preserved in it.
- cold-store — to store in cold storage.
- coldstream — a town in SE Scotland, in Scottish Borders on the English border: the Coldstream Guards were formed here (1660). Pop: 1813 (2001)
- collarstud — a stud that is used to attach a removable collar to a shirt
- collecters — Plural form of collecter.
- collectors — Plural form of collector.
- coloristic — having to do with color or the use of color
- colostrous — containing colostrum
- colourcast — a colour television broadcast
- colourfast — A fabric that is colourfast has a colour that will not get paler when the fabric is washed or worn.
- completers — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
- consortial — a combination of financial institutions, capitalists, etc., for carrying into effect some financial operation requiring large resources of capital.
- consultory — consultative
- contraltos — Plural form of contralto.
- coprolites — Plural form of coprolite.
- coralroots — Plural form of coralroot.
- cornstalks — Plural form of cornstalk.
- correlates — Plural form of correlate.
- corselette — Alternative form of corselet (undergarment).
- cosmolatry — the worship of the cosmos
- cospectral — (mathematics) isospectral.
- cotterless — (of a machine) having no cotter
- cotylosaur — any of various members of the extinct order of primitive and massive reptiles known as Cotylosauria, which lived between the Carboniferous and Triassic ages
- courtliest — Superlative form of courtly.
- cross talk — interference in one channel from another or others
- crosslight — a light source which illuminates a subject from a perpendicular angle to another light
- crotchless — (of a garment) having a hole cut so as to leave the genitals uncovered.