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.