10-letter words containing i, n, t, r, o
- auctioneer — An auctioneer is a person in charge of an auction.
- auditioner — a person who attends an audition
- auguration — The practice of augury.
- autowinder — a battery-operated device for advancing the film in a camera automatically after each exposure
- aversation — (obsolete) A turning from with dislike; aversion.
- baronetize — to make (someone) a baronet; confer a baronetcy upon.
- barrington — Jonah. born 1940, British squash player; winner of the Open Championship 1966–67, 1969–72
- bete noire — If you refer to someone or something as your bete noire, you mean that you have a particular dislike for them or that they annoy you a great deal.
- bicornuate — Botany, Zoology. having two horns or hornlike parts.
- biocentric — centered in life; having life as its principal fact.
- biocontrol — the use of one living thing to control another
- bioreagent — a reagent of biological origin, such as an enzyme
- birthstone — a precious or semiprecious stone associated with a month or sign of the zodiac and thought to bring luck if worn by a person born in that month or under that sign
- bittorrent — a file transfer protocol which enables users to upload and download large files on the internet in the form of software, games, film, video, music, etc, from other users rather than from a central server
- blindstory — a windowless story
- boat train — A boat train is a train that takes you to or from a port.
- bolstering — a long, often cylindrical, cushion or pillow for a bed, sofa, etc.
- bonnetiere — a tall, narrow wardrobe of the 18th century, found especially in Normandy and Brittany.
- bournonite — a sulfide of lead, antimony, and copper, PbCuSbS 3 , occurring in gray to black crystals or granular masses.
- brainstorm — If you have a brainstorm, you suddenly become unable to think clearly.
- break into — If someone breaks into a building, they get into it by force.
- breakpoint — an instruction inserted by a debug program causing a return to the debug program
- bridgetown — the capital of Barbados, a port on the SW coast. Pop: 144 000 (2005 est)
- bronchitic — acute or chronic inflammation of the membrane lining of the bronchial tubes, caused by respiratory infection or exposure to bronchial irritants, as cigarette smoke.
- bronchitis — Bronchitis is an illness like a very bad cough, in which your bronchial tubes become sore and infected.
- brownprint — a process of photographic reproduction using a mixture of iron and silver salts to produce a white image on a sepia ground.
- brownshirt — Nazi stormtrooper
- buccinator — a thin muscle that compresses the cheeks and holds them against the teeth during chewing, etc
- buitenzorg — former Dutch name of Bogor.
- buonarroti — Michelangelo.
- burlington — a city in S Canada on Lake Ontario, northeast of Hamilton. Pop: 150 836 (2001)
- burst into — If you burst into tears, laughter, or song, you suddenly begin to cry, laugh, or sing.
- cameration — vaulting
- carnations — Plural form of carnation.
- carotenoid — any of a group of red or yellow pigments, including carotenes, found in plants and certain animal tissues
- carrington — Dora, known as Carrington. 1893–1932, British painter, engraver, and letter writer; a member of the Bloomsbury Group
- cartonnier — an ornamental box for papers, usually for placing on a desk.
- cartooning — a sketch or drawing, usually humorous, as in a newspaper or periodical, symbolizing, satirizing, or caricaturing some action, subject, or person of popular interest.
- cartoonish — like a cartoon, esp in being one-dimensional, brightly coloured, or exaggerated
- cartoonist — A cartoonist is a person whose job is to draw cartoons for newspapers and magazines.
- castration — to remove the testes of; emasculate; geld.
- cautionary — A cautionary story or a cautionary note to a story is one that is intended to give a warning to people.
- cautioners — Plural form of cautioner.
- cavortings — sexual frolics
- centration — The tendency to focus on one aspect of a situation and neglect others.
- centrioles — Plural form of centriole.
- centroidal — of or relating to a centroid
- 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.
- chevrotain — any small timid ruminant artiodactyl mammal of the genera Tragulus and Hyemoschus, of S and SE Asia: family Tragulidae. They resemble rodents, and the males have long tusklike upper canines