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10-letter words that end in ts

  • bile ducts — a large duct that transports bile from the liver to the duodenum, having in humans and many other vertebrates a side branch to a gallbladder for bile storage.
  • bluehearts — a hairy, purple-flowered perennial plant (Buchnera americana) of the figwort family, found in the S U.S.
  • bossyboots — a bossy or domineering person
  • boy scouts — the worldwide movement founded by Lord Baden-Powell in 1908, now called the Scout Association in the UK and the Boys Scouts of America in the USA, which pursues a programme of activities for boys with the aim of developing character and responsibility
  • bucky bits — /buh'kee bits/ 1. Obsolete. The bits produced by the CONTROL and META shift keys on a SAIL keyboard (octal 200 and 400 respectively), resulting in a 9-bit keyboard character set. The MIT AI TV (Knight) keyboards extended this with TOP and separate left and right CONTROL and META keys, resulting in a 12-bit character set; later, LISP Machines added such keys as SUPER, HYPER, and GREEK (see space-cadet keyboard). 2. By extension, bits associated with "extra" shift keys on any keyboard, e.g. the ALT on an IBM PC or command and option keys on a Macintosh. It has long been rumored that "bucky bits" were named after Buckminster Fuller during a period when he was consulting at Stanford. Actually, bucky bits were invented by Niklaus Wirth when *he* was at Stanford in 1964--65; he first suggested the idea of an EDIT key to set the 8th bit of an otherwise 7 bit ASCII character. It seems that, unknown to Wirth, certain Stanford hackers had privately nicknamed him "Bucky" after a prominent portion of his dental anatomy, and this nickname transferred to the bit. Bucky-bit commands were used in a number of editors written at Stanford, including most notably TV-EDIT and NLS. The term spread to MIT and CMU early and is now in general use. Ironically, Wirth himself remained unaware of its derivation for nearly 30 years, until GLS dug up this history in early 1993! See double bucky, quadruple bucky.
  • cablecasts — Plural form of cablecast.
  • cabriolets — Plural form of cabriolet.
  • cancelbots — Plural form of cancelbot.
  • candlenuts — Plural form of candlenut.
  • candytufts — Plural form of candytuft.
  • cape flats — the strip of low-lying land in South Africa joining the Cape Peninsula proper to the African mainland
  • careerists — Plural form of careerist.
  • cashpoints — Plural form of cashpoint.
  • catamounts — Plural form of catamount.
  • catchments — Plural form of catchment.
  • catechists — Plural form of catechist.
  • celebrants — Plural form of celebrant.
  • chairlifts — Plural form of chairlift.
  • checklists — Plural form of checklist.
  • chemostats — Plural form of chemostat.
  • chervonets — (formerly) a Soviet monetary unit and gold coin worth ten roubles
  • cholecysts — Plural form of cholecyst.
  • clinostats — Plural form of clinostat.
  • cnidocysts — a nematocyst.
  • coagulants — Plural form of coagulant.
  • cockfights — Plural form of cockfight.
  • coffeepots — Plural form of coffeepot.
  • coltsfoots — Plural form of coltsfoot.
  • columnists — Plural form of columnist.
  • combatants — a nation engaged in active fighting with enemy forces.
  • communists — (initial capital letter) a member of the Communist Party or movement.
  • complaints — A statement that a situation is unsatisfactory or unacceptable.
  • components — A part or element of a larger whole, esp. a part of a machine or vehicle.
  • concordats — Plural form of concordat.
  • condiments — something used to give a special flavor to food, as mustard, ketchup, salt, or spices.
  • confidants — a close friend or associate to whom secrets are confided or with whom private matters and problems are discussed.
  • confidents — having strong belief or full assurance; sure: confident of fulfillment.
  • conscripts — Plural form of conscript.
  • consonants — Phonetics. (in English articulation) a speech sound produced by occluding with or without releasing (p, b; t, d; k, g), diverting (m, n, ng), or obstructing (f, v; s, z, etc.) the flow of air from the lungs (opposed to vowel). (in a syllable) any sound other than the sound of greatest sonority in the syllable, as b, r, and g in brig (opposed to sonant). Compare vowel (def 1b). (in linguistic function) a concept empirically determined as a phonological element in structural contrast with vowel, as the b of be, the w of we, the y, s, and t of yeast, etc.
  • constricts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of constrict.
  • constructs — Plural form of construct.
  • continents — one of the main landmasses of the globe, usually reckoned as seven in number (Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Australia, and Antarctica).
  • copayments — Plural form of copayment.
  • copyrights — Plural form of copyright.
  • coralroots — Plural form of coralroot.
  • cormorants — Plural form of cormorant.
  • corn grits — hominy grits.
  • cornetists — Plural form of cornetist.
  • cosmocrats — Plural form of cosmocrat.
  • cosmonauts — Plural form of cosmonaut.
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