10-letter words containing e, r, o, s, i
- bowdlerise — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
- bowdlerism — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
- brier rose — any of various thorny shrubs or other plants, such as the sweetbrier and greenbrier
- brightsome — bright or luminous
- brokership — an agent who buys or sells for a principal on a commission basis without having title to the property.
- broodiness — moody; gloomy.
- cabriolets — Plural form of cabriolet.
- carbolised — phenolate (def 2).
- carbonised — Alternative spelling of carbonized.
- carbonizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of carbonize.
- carnivores — an animal that eats flesh.
- categories — any general or comprehensive division; a class.
- categorise — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- categorist — a person who categorizes or inserts items in a list
- cautioners — Plural form of cautioner.
- celebrious — (obsolete) famous.
- celeritous — (rare) Swift, speedy, fast.
- censorious — If you describe someone as censorious, you do not like the way they strongly disapprove of and criticize someone else's behaviour.
- censorship — Censorship is the censoring of books, plays, films, or reports, especially by government officials, because they are considered immoral or secret in some way.
- centrioles — Plural form of centriole.
- centronics — (company, hardware, printer) A company in Hudson N.H., USA, best known for designing the parallel interface for printers with the same name, found on many microcomputers.
- centurions — Plural form of centurion.
- ceratopsid — a dinosaur belonging to the family Ceratopsidae, characterized by their parrot-like beaks, horns and neck frills
- ceremonies — Plural form of ceremony.
- ceriferous — producing or bearing wax
- ceruminous — earwax.
- cessionary — a person to whom something is transferred; assignee; grantee
- china rose — a rosaceous shrub, Rosa chinensis (or R. indica), with red, pink, or white fragrant flowers: the ancestor of many cultivated roses
- chloridise — to change into chloride
- chondrites — Plural form of chondrite.
- choreutics — a system that analyzes form in movement, developed by Rudolf von Laban (1879–1958), Hungarian choreographer and dance theorist.
- choristers — Plural form of chorister.
- christophe — Henri (ɑ̃ri). 1767–1820, Haitian revolutionary leader; king of Haiti (1811–20)
- chronemics — The study of the communicative function of time.
- chronicles — either of two historical books (I and II Chronicles) of the Old Testament
- chrysolite — a yellowish-green gem derived chiefly from varieties of olivine
- chrysotile — a green, grey, or white fibrous mineral, a variety of serpentine, that is an important source of commercial asbestos. Formula: Mg3Si2O5(OH)4
- circumpose — to position around, or within an encircled place
- cis person — a person who is cisgender or cissexual.
- clitorises — the erectile organ of the vulva, homologous to the penis of the male.
- cloistered — If you have a cloistered way of life, you live quietly and are not involved in the normal busy life of the world around you.
- cloisterer — a person who lives in a cloister
- cloistress — a nun
- coarsening — Present participle of coarsen.
- coasterize — to ruin (a CD), esp while attempting to burn music, etc on to it, thus rendering it useful only as a drinks coaster
- coconspire — (intransitive) To conspire together with.
- codiscover — to discover jointly
- coheirship — The state of being a coheir.
- coinvestor — a fellow investor
- collieries — Plural form of colliery.