10-letter words containing c, e, d, a, n
- octahedron — a solid figure having eight faces.
- open-faced — having a frank or ingenuous face.
- ordinances — Plural form of ordinance.
- ordonnance — the arrangement or disposition of parts, as of a building, picture, or literary work.
- pandectist — a German law student who followed the Pandects of Justinian
- pandemonic — wild uproar or unrestrained disorder; tumult or chaos.
- pedantical — ostentatious in one's learning.
- peduncular — Botany. a flower stalk, supporting either a cluster or a solitary flower. the stalk bearing the fruiting body in fungi.
- penal code — the aggregate of statutory enactments dealing with crimes and their punishment.
- pentachord — a series of five consecutive notes of a scale
- pentapodic — (of a poetic line or verse) having five metrical feet
- perdurance — permanence; the quality of lasting or enduring forever
- phagedenic — a severe, destructive, eroding ulcer.
- phone card — calling card (def 3).
- placidness — pleasantly calm or peaceful; unruffled; tranquil; serenely quiet or undisturbed: placid waters.
- ponderance — weight or significance
- pound cake — a rich, sweet cake made originally with approximately a pound each of butter, sugar, and flour.
- quadricone — a quadric surface swept out by a straight line that passes through a fixed point such that no straight line can intersect it at more than two points
- radiogenic — Physics. produced by radioactive decay: radiogenic lead; radiogenic heat.
- rain dance — (especially among American Indians) a ritualistic dance performed to bring rain.
- rectangled — having right angles
- redcurrant — any of various currant shrubs of the genus Ribes, bearing an edible, red fruit.
- redundance — the state of being redundant.
- redundancy — the state of being redundant.
- reindicate — to be a sign of; betoken; evidence; show: His hesitation really indicates his doubt about the venture.
- retardance — any substance capable of reducing the speed of a given reaction.
- retardancy — any substance capable of reducing the speed of a given reaction.
- ring dance — round dance.
- ropedancer — a person who walks across or performs acrobatics upon a rope stretched at some height above the floor or ground.
- run scared — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- sacredness — devoted or dedicated to a deity or to some religious purpose; consecrated.
- sanctified — made holy; consecrated: sanctified wine.
- sanctioned — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
- sanctitude — holiness; saintliness; sanctity.
- sand lance — any slender marine fish of the family Ammodytidae that burrows into the sand.
- sand perch — squirrelfish.
- sandcastle — a small castlelike structure made of wet sand, as by children at a beach.
- sandsucker — the flatfish Platessa limandoides
- sandwiched — two or more slices of bread or the like with a layer of meat, fish, cheese, etc., between each pair.
- sarcodines — belonging or pertaining to the protist phylum Sarcodina, comprising protozoa that move and capture food by forming pseudopodia.
- scale down — a succession or progression of steps or degrees; graduated series: the scale of taxation; the social scale.
- scandalise — to shock or horrify by something considered immoral or improper.
- scandalize — to shock or horrify by something considered immoral or improper.
- scanderbeg — (George Castriota) 1403?–68, Albanian chief and revolutionary leader.
- scherzando — (a musical direction) playful; sportive.
- scorpaenid — belonging or pertaining to the Scorpaenidae, a family of marine fishes with spiny fins, including the rockfishes, scorpionfishes, and lionfishes.
- screenland — filmdom.
- second man — a person who assists the driver in crewing a locomotive
- secondhand — not directly known or experienced; obtained from others or from books: Most of our knowledge is secondhand.
- seleucidan — Seleucid.