10-letter words containing a, e, r, i
- coal miner — A coal miner is a person whose job is mining coal.
- coarsening — Present participle of coarsen.
- coasterize — to ruin (a CD), esp while attempting to burn music, etc on to it, thus rendering it useful only as a drinks coaster
- coatbridge — an industrial town in central Scotland, in North Lanarkshire. Pop: 41 170 (2001)
- cochlearia — Plural form of cochlearium.
- cockatrice — a legendary monster, part snake and part cock, that could kill with a glance
- cocreation — Joint creation.
- cofavorite — a joint favourite
- coimbatore — an industrial city in SW India, in W Tamil Nadu. Pop: 923 085 (2001)
- coleorhiza — a protective sheath around the radicle in grasses
- comiserate — Obsolete spelling of commiserate.
- commercial — Commercial means involving or relating to the buying and selling of goods.
- complainer — A complainer is someone who complains a lot about their problems or about things they do not like.
- conacreism — the Irish system of letting farming land for a season or for eleven months
- concertina — A concertina is a musical instrument consisting of two end pieces with stiff paper or cloth that folds up between them. You play the concertina by pressing the buttons on the end pieces while moving them together and apart.
- containers — Plural form of container.
- contraries — opposite in nature or character; diametrically or mutually opposed: contrary to fact; contrary propositions.
- cookie jar — a jar or other container for storing cookies.
- coordinate — If you coordinate an activity, you organize the various people and things involved in it.
- copernican — of or relating to Copernicus or his theories.
- coradicate — (of multiple words) derived from the same root
- coral vine — a Mexican climbing vine, Antigonon leptopus, of the buckwheat family, having arrow- or heart-shaped leaves and pink or white flowers.
- corallines — Plural form of coralline.
- cordialize — to become warm and friendly
- cordillera — a series of parallel ranges of mountains, esp in the northwestern US
- cordwainer — a shoemaker or worker in cordovan leather
- corelation — a correlation
- corelative — correlative
- coriaceous — of or resembling leather
- coronaries — Plural form of coronary.
- coronatine — A polycyclic phytotoxin, produced by some forms of Pseudomonas, that can induce chlorosis.
- corriedale — a breed of sheep reared for both wool and meat, originally developed in New Zealand and Australia
- corrigenda — Plural form of corrigendum.
- corticated — having a cortex.
- corydaline — an alkaloid, C22H27NO4, that is found in the roots of certain plants of the genus Corydalis
- cotehardie — (in the Middle Ages) a close-fitting outer garment with long sleeves, hip-length for men and full-length for women, often laced or buttoned down the front or back.
- coterminal — having the same border or covering the same area.
- counterair — (military) Attacking the air force of an opposing power.
- covariance — a measure of the association between two random variables, equal to the expected value of the product of the deviations from the mean of the two variables, and estimated by the sum of products of deviations from the sample mean for associated values of the two variables, divided by the number of sample points. Written as Cov (X, Y)
- covariates — Plural form of covariate.
- cowfeteria — a calf feeder with multiple teats
- crabbiness — the state of being crabby
- crack wise — to joke or gibe
- craftiness — skillful in underhand or evil schemes; cunning; deceitful; sly.
- cragginess — The state of being craggy.
- craigfluke — a common name for the grey sole fish Glyptocephalus cynoglossus
- cranesbill — any of various plants of the genus Geranium, having pink or purple flowers and long slender beaked fruits: family Geraniaceae
- crankiness — ill-tempered; grouchy; cross: I'm always cranky when I don't get enough sleep.
- crannequin — a portable device for bending a crossbow.
- crappiness — extremely bad, unpleasant, or inferior; lousy: crappy weather.