10-letter words containing a, n, r, c
- benefactor — A benefactor is a person who helps a person or organization by giving them money.
- berecyntia — Cybele.
- betancourt — Rómulo [rom-yuh-loh;; Spanish raw-moo-law] /ˈrɒm yəˌloʊ;; Spanish ˈrɔ muˌlɔ/ (Show IPA), 1908–81, Venezuelan journalist and political leader: president of Venezuela 1945–48 and 1959–64.
- bicornuate — Botany, Zoology. having two horns or hornlike parts.
- bingo card — a prepaid postcard inserted in a magazine by its publisher to enable a reader to order free information about advertised products.
- binoculars — Binoculars consist of two small telescopes joined together side by side, which you look through in order to look at things that are a long way away.
- bioorganic — pertaining to the composition and biological activity of carbon-based compounds, especially those of laboratory rather than biogenic origin (contrasted with bioinorganic).
- black ring — a disease of grasses, characterized by black rings surrounding the stems and blighted seeds, caused by a fungus, Balansia strangulans.
- black tern — a small tern with a black head and body, Chlidonias niger, found on all continents except Australasia
- blackthorn — a thorny Eurasian rosaceous shrub, Prunus spinosa, with black twigs, white flowers, and small sour plumlike fruits
- blue crane — the great blue heron.
- bnr pascal — ["Remote Rendezvous", N. Gammage et al, Soft Prac & Exp 17(10):741-755 (Oct 1987)].
- boca raton — city in SE Fla., near Fort Lauderdale: pop. 75,000
- bon marche — a bargain.
- brachyuran — any decapod crustacean of the group (formerly suborder) Brachyura, which includes the crabs
- bracketing — a set of brackets
- brain cell — a nerve cell that is situated in the brain
- brain scan — an examination of the brain, using radiological scanning techniques, used in medical diagnosis and scientific research
- brainchild — Someone's brainchild is an idea or invention that they have thought up or created.
- branch cut — a method for selecting a single-valued function on a subset of the domain of a multiple-valued function of a complex variable.
- branch off — A road or path that branches off from another one starts from it and goes in a slightly different direction. If you branch off somewhere, you change the direction in which you are going.
- branch out — If a person or an organization branches out, they do something that is different from their normal activities or work.
- branchiate — having gills.
- brass neck — effrontery; nerve
- bratticing — a partition or lining, as of planks or cloth, forming an air passage in a mine.
- breakdance — to perform break dancing.
- brilliance — great brightness; radiance
- brilliancy — an instance of brilliance: the brilliancies of Congreve's wit.
- bring back — Something that brings back a memory makes you think about it.
- brno chair — an armchair designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1930, having a cantilevered frame of chromium-plated or stainless steel composed of two interlocking parts, one forming the legs and arms and the other the seat and back frame, with the back and seat lightly upholstered and usually covered with leather.
- brown coal — a low-quality coal intermediate in grade between peat and lignite
- brown coat — arriccio.
- buccinator — a thin muscle that compresses the cheeks and holds them against the teeth during chewing, etc
- buckraking — the practice of accepting large sums of money for speaking to special interest groups.
- bunchgrass — grass that grows in tufts
- cabin crew — The cabin crew on an aircraft are the people whose job is to look after the passengers.
- cabineteer — (sometimes initial capital letter) a member of a governmental cabinet.
- cadaverine — a toxic diamine with an unpleasant smell, produced by protein hydrolysis during putrefaction of animal tissue. Formula: NH2(CH2)5NH2
- caernarfon — a port and resort in NW Wales, in Gwynedd on the Menai Strait: 13th-century castle. Pop: 9726 (2001)
- caernarvon — a seaport in W Gwynedd, in NW Wales, on Menai Strait: 13th-century castle of Edward II.
- caesareans — Plural form of caesarean, an alternative capitalization of 'Caesarean'.
- caipirinha — A Brazilian cocktail made with cachaca, lime or lemon juice, sugar, and crushed ice.
- calamander — the hard black-and-brown striped wood of several trees of the genus Diospyros, esp D. quaesita of India and Sri Lanka, used in making furniture: family Ebenaceae
- calciminer — A person who calcimines.
- calcitrant — Stubborn; refractory.
- calcsinter — travertine.
- calendared — a table or register with the days of each month and week in a year: He marked the date on his calendar.
- calendarer — a person who calendars
- calendered — Simple past tense and past participle of calender.
- calenderer — a person who operates a calender