10-letter words containing d, o, r, a, n
- pronograde — walking with the body parallel to the ground
- propaganda — information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.
- pteranodon — a flying reptile of the extinct order Pterosauria, from the Cretaceous Period, having a wingspread of about 25 feet (8 meters).
- punchboard — a small board containing holes filled with slips of paper printed with concealed numbers that are punched out by a player in an attempt to win a prize.
- pyramidion — a miniature pyramid, as at the apex of an obelisk.
- pyranoside — a glycoside containing a pyran ring structure.
- 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
- rabdomancy — Alt form rhabdomancy.
- radication — the act or process of taking root
- radio link — radio communication setup
- radiogenic — Physics. produced by radioactive decay: radiogenic lead; radiogenic heat.
- radiophone — a radiotelephone.
- radiosonde — an instrument that is carried aloft by a balloon to send back information on atmospheric temperature, pressure, and humidity by means of a small radio transmitter.
- rain cloud — a cloud or a mass of clouds that yields rain.
- rain-cloud — a cloud or a mass of clouds that yields rain.
- rained off — cancelled or postponed on account of rain
- randomness — proceeding, made, or occurring without definite aim, reason, or pattern: the random selection of numbers.
- randomwise — in a random manner
- rawinsonde — a method of upper-atmosphere meteorological observation conducted by means of a radiosonde tracked by radar.
- re-adjourn — to suspend the meeting of (a club, legislature, committee, etc.) to a future time, another place, or indefinitely: to adjourn the court.
- read up on — If you read up on a subject, you read a lot about it so that you become informed about it.
- readoption — the adoption of something or someone again
- red salmon — sockeye salmon.
- redondilla — a Spanish verse form in which each stanza consists of four lines, each with eight syllables, and a rhyme scheme abba.
- reed organ — a musical keyboard instrument, as the harmonium or American organ, having small metal reeds through which air is forced to produce the sound.
- rejoneador — a bullfighter who rides horseback during a fight and spears the bull with lances
- rhodophane — the red colour found in the inner cones of the retina in animals
- richardson — Henry Handel (Henrietta Richardson Robertson) 1870–1946, Australian novelist.
- rio grande — a city in NE Puerto Rico.
- ritardando — becoming gradually slower
- road agent — (formerly) a highwayman, especially along stagecoach routes in the western U.S.
- road sense — the ability to be a safe driver or pedestrian
- road train — a convoy of motor vehicles.
- road-train — a convoy of motor vehicles.
- roadmaking — road building
- roadrunner — either of two large terrestrial cuckoos of the genus Geococcyx of arid regions of the western U.S., Mexico, and Central America, especially G. californianus (greater roadrunner)
- roberdsman — a robber
- rock candy — sugar in large, hard, cohering crystals.
- rock-candy — sugar in large, hard, cohering crystals.
- roman ride — a method of horseback riding in which a person stands astride a pair of horses.
- ropedancer — a person who walks across or performs acrobatics upon a rope stretched at some height above the floor or ground.
- round arch — an arch formed in a continuous curve, especially in a semicircle.
- round clam — quahog.
- round hand — a style of handwriting in which the letters are round, full, and clearly separated.
- round tape — (storage, jargon) Industry-standard 1/2-inch magnetic tape (7- or 9-track) on traditional circular reels. See macrotape, opposite: square tape.
- roundabout — circuitous or indirect, as a road, journey, method, statement or person.
- roundtable — a number of persons gathered together for conference, discussion of some subject, etc., and often seated at a round table.
- rowlandson — Thomas, 1756–1827, English caricaturist.
- run around — 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.
- salvadoran — of El Salvador or its people or culture