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10-letter words containing c, o, r, n, a, e

  • overcanopy — to cover like a canopy
  • overglance — to glance over
  • overlaunch — (in shipbuilding) to overlap planks
  • pancreato- — pancreas
  • peacherino — peach1 (def 4).
  • pelargonic — of or derived from a pelargonium or pelargonic acid.
  • pentachord — a series of five consecutive notes of a scale
  • per contra — on the other hand; on the contrary.
  • pernambuco — a state in NE Brazil. 38,000 sq. mi. (98,420 sq. km). Capital: Recife.
  • pernoctate — to stay all night
  • petrol can — a container for carrying petrol
  • phone card — calling card (def 3).
  • ponderance — weight or significance
  • pontefract — a city in West Yorkshire, in N central England, SE of Leeds: ruins of a 12th-century castle.
  • pratincole — any of several limicoline birds of the genus Glareola, of the Eastern Hemisphere, having a short bill, long, narrow, pointed wings, and a forked tail.
  • precaution — a measure taken in advance to avert possible evil or to secure good results.
  • precontact — prior contact
  • proclinate — (of a part) directed or inclined forward.
  • procurance — the act of bringing about or getting something; agency; procurement.
  • pronuclear — of or relating to a pronucleus.
  • protectant — a substance, as a chemical spray, that provides protection, as against insects, frost, rust, etc.; protective agent.
  • provenance — place or source of origin: The provenance of the ancient manuscript has never been determined.
  • provencale — (sometimes lowercase) cooked, usually in olive oil, with garlic, tomatoes, onions, and herbs.
  • pyrenocarp — Mycology. a perithecium.
  • 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
  • racemation — a bunch, collection, or group
  • rackabones — 'a rack of bones', a metaphor for a person or animal that is very thin or emaciated
  • raconteurs — Plural form of raconteur.
  • raconteuse — a woman who is skilled in relating stories and anecdotes interestingly.
  • radiogenic — Physics. produced by radioactive decay: radiogenic lead; radiogenic heat.
  • re-contact — the act or state of touching; a touching or meeting, as of two things or people.
  • re-enactor — a person who re-enacts something
  • reactional — a reverse movement or tendency; an action in a reverse direction or manner.
  • reannounce — to make known publicly or officially; proclaim; give notice of: to announce a special sale.
  • recitation — an act of reciting.
  • reckonable — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
  • recontract — an agreement between two or more parties for the doing or not doing of something specified.
  • recreation — the act of creating anew.
  • recusation — the act of recusing a judge
  • refraction — Physics. the change of direction of a ray of light, sound, heat, or the like, in passing obliquely from one medium into another in which its wave velocity is different.
  • relocation — to move (a building, company, etc.) to a different location: plans to relocate the firm to Houston.
  • reprobance — reprobation.
  • retraction — the act of retracting or the state of being retracted.
  • revocation — the act of revoking; annulment.
  • rhinotheca — the covering of the upper part of the beak in birds
  • rock snake — any large Australasian python of the genus Liasis
  • roman pace — an ancient Roman unit of measurement, equal to 5 Roman feet or about 58 U.S. inches (147 cm).
  • ropedancer — a person who walks across or performs acrobatics upon a rope stretched at some height above the floor or ground.
  • sacramento — a state in the W United States, on the Pacific coast. 158,693 sq. mi. (411,015 sq. km). Capital: Sacramento. Abbreviation: CA (for use with zip code), Cal., Calif.
  • saprogenic — producing putrefaction or decay, as certain bacteria.
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