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10-letter words containing a, y, r, s

  • atrocity's — the quality or state of being atrocious.
  • ayers rock — a conspicuous red monadnock in central Australia, in the SW Northern Territory: tourist attraction. 1143 feet (348 meters) high.
  • ayurvedics — a therapeutic system based on the Ayurveda
  • azygospore — a thick-walled spore produced by parthenogenesis in certain algae and fungi
  • babymakers — Plural form of babymaker.
  • babysitter — to take charge of a child while the parents are temporarily away.
  • back story — background information provided, often in narrative form, to give help in understanding something, as the behavior of a character in a film
  • backronyms — Plural form of backronym.
  • baptistery — a place, esp. a part of a church, used for baptizing
  • barysphere — centrosphere (def 2).
  • bay street — the financial centre of Toronto, in which Canada's largest stock exchange is situated
  • bayberries — Plural form of bayberry.
  • bodyshaper — an undergarment which flattens the stomach, bottom etc
  • bonus army — a group of 12,000 World War I veterans who massed in Washington, D.C., the summer of 1932 to induce Congress to appropriate moneys for the payment of bonus certificates granted in 1924.
  • brachyaxis — the shorter lateral axis of a monoclinic, orthorhombic, or triclinic crystal
  • bradyseism — a gradual rise or fall in the earth's crust
  • brailowsky — Alexander [al-ig-zan-der,, -zahn-;; Russian uh-lyi-ksahn-dr] /ˌæl ɪgˈzæn dər,, -ˈzɑn-;; Russian ʌ lyɪˈksɑn dr/ (Show IPA), 1896–1976, Russian pianist.
  • by-passers — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
  • camera-shy — Someone who is camera-shy is nervous and uncomfortable about being filmed or about having their photograph taken.
  • canal rays — rays of positive ions passing through openings in the cathode of a vacuum tube
  • canorously — In a canorous manner.
  • carelessly — If someone does something carelessly, they do it without much thought or effort.
  • carryovers — Plural form of carryover.
  • castratory — of or relating to castration
  • cessionary — a person to whom something is transferred; assignee; grantee
  • cheboksary — a port in W central Russia on the River Volga: capital of the Chuvash Republic. Pop: 446 000 (2005 est)
  • chrysocale — a copper alloy containing zinc and lead.
  • chrysophan — a glucoside that is bitter to the taste and yellow in colour
  • clearstory — clerestory
  • clepsydras — Plural form of clepsydra.
  • commissary — A commissary is a shop that provides food and equipment in a place such as a military camp or a prison.
  • consectary — a consequence or conclusion
  • conspiracy — Conspiracy is the secret planning by a group of people to do something illegal.
  • coryphaeus — (in ancient Greek drama) the leader of the chorus
  • cosmic ray — a radiation of high penetrating power that originates in outer space and consists partly of high-energy atomic nuclei.
  • cosmolatry — the worship of the cosmos
  • cotylosaur — any of various members of the extinct order of primitive and massive reptiles known as Cotylosauria, which lived between the Carboniferous and Triassic ages
  • courtyards — Plural form of courtyard.
  • crab's eye — rosary pea.
  • crashingly — extremely; exceedingly
  • cryostasis — the deep-freezing of human bodies or other organisms at death; cryonics.
  • cryostatic — of or relating to a cryostat
  • cryptogams — Plural form of cryptogam.
  • crystalise — Alternative spelling of from=non-Oxford British spelling.
  • crystalize — (rare) alternative spelling of crystallize.
  • crystallo- — crystal
  • cutty sark — a three-masted merchant clipper built in Dumbarton, Scotland in 1869, now kept as a museum ship at Greenwich, London; badly damaged by a fire in 2007; restored then reopened in 2012
  • cybercasts — Plural form of cybercast.
  • cyberspace — In computer technology, cyberspace refers to data banks and networks, considered as a place.
  • cycloramas — Plural form of cyclorama.
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