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10-letter words containing t, r, o, c, l

  • centrioles — Plural form of centriole.
  • centroidal — of or relating to a centroid
  • charleston — The Charleston is a lively dance that was popular in the 1920s.
  • charlottes — Plural form of charlotte.
  • chloridate — to expose to or prepare with a chloride
  • chlorinate — to combine or treat (a substance) with chlorine
  • chlorinity — the amount of chlorine present in water, esp sea-water
  • choir loft — a gallery in a cathedral, abbey, or church used by the choir
  • choirstall — one of the benches for the choir of a church, cathedral, etc
  • choropleth — a symbol or marked and bounded area on a map denoting the distribution of some property
  • 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
  • circle-out — a closed plane curve consisting of all points at a given distance from a point within it called the center. Equation: x 2 + y 2 = r 2 .
  • circulator — a person who moves from place to place.
  • citalopram — an antidepressant drug, C 20 H 22 BrFN 20 , of the SSRI class, that acts by prolonging the action of serotonin in the brain.
  • citronalis — lemon verbena.
  • citronella — a tropical Asian grass, Cymbopogon (or Andropogon) nardus, with bluish-green lemon-scented leaves
  • clapometer — a device that measures applause
  • clay court — a tennis court with a playing surface topped by a layer of crushed shale, brick, or stone
  • 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
  • clinometer — an instrument used in surveying for measuring an angle of inclination
  • cliometric — Of or pertaining to cliometrics.
  • clistocarp — cleistothecium.
  • clitorises — the erectile organ of the vulva, homologous to the penis of the male.
  • clock rate — (processor, benchmark)   The fundamental rate in cycles per second at which a computer performs its most basic operations such as adding two numbers or transfering a value from one register to another. The clock rate of a computer is normally determined by the frequency of a crystal. The original IBM PC, circa 1981, had a clock rate of 4.77 MHz (almost five million cycles/second). As of 1995, Intel's Pentium chip runs at 100 MHz (100 million cycles/second). The clock rate of a computer is only useful for providing comparisons between computer chips in the same processor family. An IBM PC with an Intel 486 CPU running at 50 MHz will be about twice as fast as one with the same CPU, memory and display running at 25 MHz. However, there are many other factors to consider when comparing different computers. Clock rate should not be used when comparing different computers or different processor families. Rather, some benchmark should be used. Clock rate can be very misleading, since the amount of work different computer chips can do in one cycle varies. For example, RISC CPUs tend to have simpler instructions than CISC CPUs (but higher clock rates) and pipelined processors execute more than one instruction per cycle.
  • clofibrate — a medication used in the treatment of heart disease
  • 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
  • cloth yard — a medieval unit of measure for cloth, fixed at 37 inches by Edward VI of England: also used as a length for longbow arrows
  • cloudburst — A cloudburst is a sudden, very heavy fall of rain.
  • co-orbital — noting or pertaining to two or more celestial bodies that share or almost share an orbit.
  • coagulator — a substance that produces or aids coagulation.
  • coalmaster — the owner of a colliery
  • codetalker — A military communications specialist using codes based on an obscure language.
  • coherently — logically connected; consistent: a coherent argument.
  • colchester — a town in E England, in NE Essex; university (1964). Pop: 104 390 (2001)
  • cold front — the boundary line between a warm air mass and the cold air pushing it from beneath and behind as it moves
  • 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.
  • cold-water — designating a room, apartment, etc. that is not provided with hot water or, sometimes, a bathroom
  • coldstream — a town in SE Scotland, in Scottish Borders on the English border: the Coldstream Guards were formed here (1660). Pop: 1813 (2001)
  • coleoptera — the largest order in the animal kingdom; the beetles
  • collar rot — a disease of plants, characterized by cankers that girdle the stem, caused by any of several fungi, as Alternaria solani.
  • collarette — a woman's fur or lace collar
  • collarstud — a stud that is used to attach a removable collar to a shirt
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