10-letter words containing cle
- muscle man — Informal. a man with a muscular or brawny physique, especially a bodybuilder.
- muscle-man — Informal. a man with a muscular or brawny physique, especially a bodybuilder.
- musclehead — a muscular man, esp. one who is involved in bodybuilding, weight lifting, etc.
- nonnuclear — not utilizing nuclear power, nuclear weapons, etc.: to fight a nonnuclear war.
- nuclearism — a political philosophy maintaining that nuclear weapons are the best means of assuring peace and of attaining political goals.
- nuclearize — to equip with nuclear weapons; give nuclear capability to: a fear that armed forces on both sides would become nuclearized.
- nucleating — Present participle of nucleate.
- nucleation — having a nucleus.
- nucleobase — (biochemistry) The base of a nucleic acid, such as thymine, uracil, adenine, cytosine and guanine.
- nucleolate — containing a nucleolus or nucleoli.
- nucleonics — the branch of science that deals with nuclear phenomena, as radioactivity, fission, or fusion, especially practical applications, as in industrial engineering.
- nucleoside — any of the class of compounds derived by the hydrolysis of nucleic acids or nucleotides, consisting typically of deoxyribose or ribose combined with adenine, guanine, cytosine, uracil, or thymine.
- nucleosome — any of the repeating subunits of chromatin occurring at intervals along a strand of DNA, consisting of DNA coiled around histone.
- nucleotide — any of a group of molecules that, when linked together, form the building blocks of DNA or RNA: composed of a phosphate group, the bases adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine, and a pentose sugar, in RNA the thymine base being replaced by uracil.
- ophicleide — a musical wind instrument, a development of the old wooden serpent, consisting of a conical metal tube bent double.
- oracle rdb — (database) A set of relational database products originally known as Rdb from Digital Equipment Corporation, but purchased by Oracle Corporation in 1994. The current (October 1996) versions are Oracle Rdb V7.0 for OpenVMS VAX, Oracle Rdb V7.0 for OpenVMS Alpha, and Oracle Rdb V7.0 for Digital UNIX. This release of Oracle Rdb includes advances in non-stop computing for business critical applications, improvements to OLTP performance, and easy client/server application development. It also includes an ODBC Driver.
- otto cycle — an idealization of the thermodynamic cycle of the internal combustion engine with air as the working substance: intake of air at atmospheric pressure, then adiabatic compression, then ignition with an increase of pressure and temperature at constant volume, then adiabatic expansion and performance of work, then a drop to atmospheric pressure at constant volume and a rejection of heat to the environment, then the exhaust of air at constant pressure.
- pdsa cycle — Plan, Do, See, Approve (from Japan).
- prenuclear — of or relating to the era before the development of nuclear weapons.
- pronuclear — of or relating to a pronucleus.
- pronucleus — either of the gametic nuclei that unite in fertilization to form the nucleus of the zygote.
- receptacle — a container, device, etc., that receives or holds something: a receptacle for trash.
- ring cycle — Ring of the Nibelung, The.
- rock cycle — Geology. a continuous process by which rocks are created, changed from one form to another, destroyed, and then formed again.
- room clerk — a clerk at a hotel who assigns rooms to guests, keeps the guest register, sorts the incoming mail, etc.
- salesclerk — a person who sells goods in a store.
- scleroderm — a fish of the sclerodermi tribe
- sclerotial — a vegetative, resting food-storage body in certain higher fungi, composed of a compact mass of hardened mycelia.
- sclerotium — a vegetative, resting food-storage body in certain higher fungi, composed of a compact mass of hardened mycelia.
- sclerotize — to harden and darken (an insect's cuticle)
- sclerotome — Embryology. the part of a mesodermal somite contributing to the development of the vertebrae and ribs.
- sclerotomy — incision into the sclera, as to extract foreign bodies.
- semicircle — Also called semicircumference [sem-ee-ser-kuhm-fer-uh ns, -fruh ns, sem-ahy-] /ˌsɛm i sərˈkʌm fər əns, -frəns, ˌsɛm aɪ-/ (Show IPA). half of a circle; the arc from one end of a diameter to the other.
- song cycle — a group of art songs that are usually all by the same poet and composer and have a unifying subject or idea.
- sophoclean — 495?–406? b.c, Greek dramatist.
- spectacled — wearing spectacles.
- spectacles — anything presented to the sight or view, especially something of a striking or impressive kind: The stars make a fine spectacle tonight.
- subarticle — an article that forms part of a larger or main article
- subnuclear — pertaining to particles within or smaller than an atomic nucleus.
- subnucleus — a central part about which other parts are grouped or gathered; core: A few faithful friends formed the nucleus of the club.
- superclean — exceptionally clean
- supercycle — any complete round or series of occurrences that repeats or is repeated.
- tabernacle — any place or house of worship, especially one designed for a large congregation.
- tenor clef — a sign locating middle C on the next to the top line of the staff.
- town clerk — a town official who keeps records and issues licenses.
- ultraclean — extremely clean, especially free of germs: an ultraclean laboratory.
- uncleansed — not cleansed; that has not been cleansed or cleaned
- unclerical — not clerical; not characteristic of or appropriate for a member of the clergy
- uninuclear — (of a cell) having one nucleus
- unrecycled — to treat or process (used or waste materials) so as to make suitable for reuse: recycling paper to save trees.