10-letter words containing ran
- courantyne — a river in N South America, rising in S Guyana and flowing north to the Atlantic, forming the boundary between Guyana and Surinam. Length: 765 km (475 miles)
- crandalled — Simple past tense and past participle of crandall.
- cranesbill — any of various plants of the genus Geranium, having pink or purple flowers and long slender beaked fruits: family Geraniaceae
- craniology — the branch of science concerned with the shape and size of the human skull, esp with reference to variations between different races
- craniotomy — any surgical incision into the skull, esp to expose the brain for neurosurgery
- crankcases — Plural form of crankcase.
- cranked up — Machinery. any of several types of arms or levers for imparting rotary or oscillatory motion to a rotating shaft, one end of the crank being fixed to the shaft and the other end receiving reciprocating motion from a hand, connecting rod, etc.
- crankiness — ill-tempered; grouchy; cross: I'm always cranky when I don't get enough sleep.
- crankshaft — A crankshaft is the main shaft of an internal combustion engine.
- crannequin — a portable device for bending a crossbow.
- decaborane — (inorganic compound) The stable borane B10H14.
- deck crane — a deck-mounted crane used for loading and unloading cargo
- declarants — Plural form of declarant.
- decolorant — able to decolour or bleach
- delustrant — an agent which removes lustre from something
- denaturant — to deprive (something) of its natural character, properties, etc.
- deodorants — Plural form of deodorant.
- deodourant — Rare spelling of deodorant.
- dextranase — an enzyme which breaks down dextran, and is therefore useful for, among other things, preventing tooth decay
- disarrange — to disturb the arrangement of; disorder; unsettle.
- disk crank — a crank having the form of a disk with a crankpin mounted off-center.
- dude ranch — a ranch operated primarily as a vacation resort.
- edulcorant — tending to edulcorate
- embrangled — Simple past tense and past participle of embrangle.
- embrangles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of embrangle.
- endocrania — Plural form of endocranium.
- endurances — Plural form of endurance.
- entrancing — Present participle of entrance.
- epicranium — (anatomy) The upper and superficial part of the head, including the scalp, muscles, etc.
- errand boy — boy who carries messages, go-between
- estranging — Present participle of estrange.
- estrangled — Simple past tense and past participle of estrangle.
- exhilarant — Exciting joy, mirth, or pleasure.
- extraneity — (uncountable) The state of being extraneous.
- extraneous — Irrelevant or unrelated to the subject being dealt with.
- extuberant — Swelling out; protuberant.
- exuberance — The quality of being full of energy, excitement, and cheerfulness; ebullience.
- exuberancy — Archaic form of exuberance.
- field rank — the rank of major, lieutenant colonel, or colonel
- figurantes — Plural form of figurante.
- firebrands — Plural form of firebrand.
- flagrantly — shockingly noticeable or evident; obvious; glaring: a flagrant error.
- forbearant — Forbearing.
- fortran 66 — Fortran IV standardised. ASA X3.9-1966.
- fortran 77 — A popular version of Fortran with Block IF, PARAMETER and SAVE statements added, but still no WHILE. It has fixed-length character strings, format-free I/O, and arrays with lower bounds.
- fortran 90 — (Previously "Fortran 8x" and "Fortran Extended") An extensive enlargement of Fortran 77. Fortran 90 has derived types, assumed shape arrays, array sections, functions returning arrays, case statement, module subprograms and internal subprograms, optional and keyword subprogram arguments, recursion, and dynamic allocation. It is defined in ISO 1539:1991, soon to be adopted by ANSI.
- fortran ii — 1958. Added subroutines.
- fortran iv — IBM 1962. For the IBM 7090/94. Many implementations went well beyond the original definition.
- fortran vi — IBM's internal name for early PL/I work ca. 1963.
- fortransit — (language) Fortran Internal Translator. A subset of Fortran translated into IT on the IBM 650. It was in use in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Compilation took place in several steps (using punched cards as the only input/output media). FORTRANSIT was converted to IT Internal Translator which was converted into SOAP and thence to machine code. In the SOAP -> machine code step, the user had to include card decks for all the subroutines used in his FORTRANSIT program (including e.g. square root, sine, and even basic floating point routines).