10-letter words containing m, i, s, o, r
- chronemics — The study of the communicative function of time.
- circumpose — to position around, or within an encircled place
- come first — If you say that someone or something comes first for a particular person, you mean they treat or consider that person or thing as more important than anything else.
- comiserate — Obsolete spelling of commiserate.
- commissars — Plural form of commissar.
- commissary — A commissary is a shop that provides food and equipment in a place such as a military camp or a prison.
- commissure — a band of tissue linking two parts or organs, such as the nervous tissue connecting the right and left sides of the brain in vertebrates
- comparison — When you make a comparison, you consider two or more things and discover the differences between them.
- compersion — The feeling of joy one has experiencing another's joy, such as in witnessing a toddler's joy and feeling joy in response.
- compositor — A compositor is a person who arranges the text and pictures of a book, magazine, or newspaper before it is printed.
- comprising — to include or contain: The Soviet Union comprised several socialist republics.
- compromise — A compromise is a situation in which people accept something slightly different from what they really want, because of circumstances or because they are considering the wishes of other people.
- compursion — the act of contracting the mouth into a small rounded shape
- conacreism — the Irish system of letting farming land for a season or for eleven months
- concretism — the practice of representing abstract concepts in concrete terms
- conformism — the tendency to adopt the attitudes, behaviour, dress, etc, of the group to which one belongs
- conformist — Someone who is conformist behaves or thinks like everyone else rather than doing things that are original.
- consimilar — similar; alike
- consortism — symbiosis
- consortium — A consortium is a group of people or firms who have agreed to co-operate with each other.
- cornishman — a man who is a native or inhabitant of Cornwall
- cosmic ray — a radiation of high penetrating power that originates in outer space and consists partly of high-energy atomic nuclei.
- cosmoramic — of or relating to a cosmorama
- costumiers — Plural form of costumier.
- cottierism — (in Ireland) the system of cottier tenure
- cremations — Plural form of cremation.
- crimsoning — Present participle of crimson.
- cristiform — crest-shaped
- crocosmias — Plural form of crocosmia.
- crossclaim — a secondary claim brought by a defendant in a lawsuit on a co-defendant
- cuneiforms — Plural form of cuneiform.
- customizer — a person who customizes
- democritus — ?460–?370 bc, Greek philosopher who developed the atomist theory of matter of his teacher, Leucippus
- demolisher — One who demolishes.
- demoralise — to deprive (a person or persons) of spirit, courage, discipline, etc.; destroy the morale of: The continuous barrage demoralized the infantry.
- dermatosis — any skin disease
- diadromous — of or possessing a leaf venation in the shape of a fan
- diatropism — a response of plants or parts of plants to an external stimulus by growing at right angles to the direction of the stimulus
- dibromides — Plural form of dibromide.
- dichromasy — Alternative spelling of dichromacy.
- dichromism — the state of being dichromic
- dime store — five-and-ten (def 1).
- dimorphism — Zoology. the occurrence of two forms distinct in structure, coloration, etc., among animals of the same species. Compare sexual dimorphism.
- dimorphous — having two forms.
- discomfort — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
- disconfirm — to prove to be invalid.
- disembargo — to remove an embargo from.
- disembroil — to free from embroilment, entanglement, or confusion.
- disempower — to deprive of influence, importance, etc.: Voters feel they have become disempowered by recent political events.
- disharmony — lack of harmony; discord.