10-letter words containing a, r, o, g, n, c
- corrigenda — Plural form of corrigendum.
- costarring — Present participle of costar.
- cradlesong — a lullaby
- craniology — the branch of science concerned with the shape and size of the human skull, esp with reference to variations between different races
- cro magnon — an Upper Paleolithic population of humans, regarded as the prototype of modern Homo sapiens in Europe. Skeletal remains found in an Aurignacian cave in southern France indicate that the Cro-Magnon had long heads, broad faces, and sunken eyes, and reached a height of approximately 5 feet 9 inches (175 cm).
- cro-magnon — belonging to a prehistoric, Caucasoid type of human who lived on the European continent, distinguished by tallness and erect stature, and by the use of stone and bone implements, principally of Aurignacian culture
- crown gall — a disease of peaches, apples, roses, grapes, etc., characterized by the formation of galls on the roots or stems usually at or below ground level, caused by a bacterium, Agrobacterium tumefaciens.
- currawongs — Plural form of currawong.
- decorating — the painting or wallpapering of a room, house, etc
- disorganic — Not organic; having no organization.
- encouraged — Simple past tense and past participle of encourage.
- encourager — One who gives encouragement.
- encourages — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of encourage.
- ergomaniac — one with an excessive desire to work or exercise
- gasconader — A great boaster; a blusterer.
- go-carting — Go-carting is the sport of racing or riding on go-carts.
- governance — information technology governance
- grace note — a note not essential to the harmony or melody, added as an embellishment, especially an appoggiatura.
- gran chaco — an extensive subtropical region in central South America, in Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay. 300,000 sq. mi. (777,000 sq. km).
- grand chop — (in China and India trade) a customs clearance.
- grand coup — the trumping of a trick that could have been taken by the winner's partner.
- gravitonic — Relating to gravitons.
- groceryman — a grocer.
- gynecocrat — gynarchy.
- gyneocracy — Alternative form of gynecocracy.
- gynocratic — Pertaining to government by women.
- gyrfalcons — Plural form of gyrfalcon.
- homorganic — (of two or more speech sounds) having the same place of articulation, as p, b, and m, which are all bilabial.
- iatrogenic — (of a medical disorder) caused by the diagnosis, manner, or treatment of a physician.
- iconograph — symbolic representation, especially the conventional meanings attached to an image or images.
- ignorances — the state or fact of being ignorant; lack of knowledge, learning, information, etc.
- incouraged — Simple past tense and past participle of incourage.
- inorganics — Plural form of inorganic.
- king cobra — a cobra, Ophiophagus hannah, of southeastern Asia and the East Indies, that grows to a length of more than 15 feet (5 meters): the largest of the venomous snakes.
- long march — the 6000-mile (9654-km) retreat of the Chinese Communist Party and Red Army from southeastern China (Jiangxi province) to the northwest (Yanan in Shaanxi province) in 1934–35, during which Mao Zedong became leader of the Communist party.
- lounge car — club car.
- monorganic — (biology, medicine) Belonging to, or affecting, a single organ or a single set of organs.
- morganatic — of or relating to a form of marriage in which a person of high rank, as a member of the nobility, marries someone of lower station with the stipulation that neither the low-ranking spouse nor their children, if any, will have any claim to the titles or entailed property of the high-ranking partner.
- necrophage — An organism that eats dead or decaying flesh.
- necrophagy — The eating of dead or decaying animal flesh.
- nigromancy — black magic; demonic magic
- noctograph — a frame used to aid the blind in writing.
- nonorganic — noting or pertaining to a class of chemical compounds that formerly comprised only those existing in or derived from plants or animals, but that now includes all other compounds of carbon.
- octangular — having eight angles.
- octogenary — (obsolete) Of eighty years of age.
- orcharding — the cultivation of orchards
- organicism — Philosophy. the view that some systems resemble organisms in having parts that function in relation to the whole to which they belong. Compare holism (def 1).
- organicist — Philosophy. the view that some systems resemble organisms in having parts that function in relation to the whole to which they belong. Compare holism (def 1).
- organicity — noting or pertaining to a class of chemical compounds that formerly comprised only those existing in or derived from plants or animals, but that now includes all other compounds of carbon.
- organismic — a form of life composed of mutually interdependent parts that maintain various vital processes.