10-letter words containing c, a, e, r, n
- backburner — a condition of low priority or temporary deferment (usually used in the phrase on the back burner): Put other issues on the back burner until after the election.
- backhander — A backhander is an amount of money that is illegally paid to someone in a position of authority in order to encourage them to do something.
- bank clerk — an employee of a bank
- barbecuing — Present participle of barbecue.
- barenecked — Having the neck bare.
- barleycorn — a grain of barley, or barley itself
- barn dance — A barn dance is a social event people go to for country dancing.
- barycenter — (physics) The center of a mass; often specifically, the point at which the gravitational forces exerted by two objects are equal.
- barycentre — a centre of mass, esp of the earth-moon system or the solar system
- beachfront — A beachfront house, café, shop, or hotel is situated on or by a beach.
- bean caper — a shrub, Zygophyllum fabago, of E Mediterranean regions, whose flower buds are eaten as a substitute for capers: family Zygophyllaceae
- bell crank — a lever with two arms having a common fulcrum at their junction
- benacerraf — Baruj. 1920–2011, Venezuelan-born US immunologist: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1980) for his work on histocompatibility antigens
- bench mark — a surveyor's mark made on a permanent landmark of known position and altitude: it is used as a reference point in determining other altitudes
- 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.
- black tern — a small tern with a black head and body, Chlidonias niger, found on all continents except Australasia
- blue crane — the great blue heron.
- bon marche — a bargain.
- bracketing — a set of brackets
- brain cell — a nerve cell that is situated in the brain
- branchiate — having gills.
- brass neck — effrontery; nerve
- breakdance — to perform break dancing.
- brilliance — great brightness; radiance
- 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'.
- 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.
- 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
- cameration — vaulting
- camerlengo — a cardinal who acts as the pope's financial secretary and the papal treasurer
- campaigner — A campaigner is a person who campaigns for social or political change.
- camper van — A camper van is a van which is equipped with beds and cooking equipment so that you can live, cook, and sleep in it.
- can opener — A can opener is the same as a tin opener.
- can-opener — a manual device or small electric appliance for opening cans.
- cancerette — (slang, derogatory) A cigarette.
- cancerroot — any parasitic plant of the genus Orobanche, especially O. uniflora, of North America, having pale, leafless stalks bearing a single white or purplish flower.
- cancionero — a songbook
- candelabra — A candelabra is an ornamental holder for two or more candles.