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

  • pentachord — a series of five consecutive notes of a scale
  • person-day — a unit of measurement, especially in accountancy, based on an ideal amount of work done by one person in one working day.
  • phone card — calling card (def 3).
  • pirandello — Luigi [loo-ee-jee] /luˈi dʒi/ (Show IPA), 1867–1936, Italian dramatist, novelist, and poet: Nobel prize 1934.
  • ponderable — capable of being considered carefully or deeply.
  • ponderance — weight or significance
  • pontevedra — a port in NW Spain: takes its name from a 12-arched Roman bridge, the Pons Vetus. Pop: 77 993 (2003 est)
  • pronograde — walking with the body parallel to the ground
  • pteranodon — a flying reptile of the extinct order Pterosauria, from the Cretaceous Period, having a wingspread of about 25 feet (8 meters).
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • rio grande — a city in NE Puerto Rico.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 tape — (storage, jargon)   Industry-standard 1/2-inch magnetic tape (7- or 9-track) on traditional circular reels. See macrotape, opposite: square tape.
  • roundtable — a number of persons gathered together for conference, discussion of some subject, etc., and often seated at a round table.
  • sandgroper — a nickname for a Western Australian
  • sandgrouse — any of several birds of the family Pteroclididae inhabiting sandy areas of the Old World, resembling both pigeons and shorebirds and having precocial young.
  • sandlotter — a youngster who plays baseball in a sandlot.
  • sandroller — a North American fresh-water fish, Percopsis transmontana, related to the troutperch but having a deeper, more compressed body.
  • sanforized — (of a fabric) preshrunk using a patented process
  • sarcodines — belonging or pertaining to the protist phylum Sarcodina, comprising protozoa that move and capture food by forming pseudopodia.
  • 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.
  • sideration — sudden paralysis of a part of the body
  • slanderous — defamation; calumny: rumors full of slander.
  • soda niter — a white or transparent mineral, sodium nitrate, NaNO 3 , used chiefly as a fertilizer and in the manufacture of sulfuric and nitric acids and potassium nitrate.
  • sordamente — (of a piece of music) to be played softly or gently
  • stand over — (of a person) to be in an upright position on the feet.
  • stare down — to gaze fixedly and intently, especially with the eyes wide open.
  • sternboard — a backward motion of a boat
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