10-letter words containing n, i, t, r, a
- carrington — Dora, known as Carrington. 1893–1932, British painter, engraver, and letter writer; a member of the Bloomsbury Group
- carthamine — a yellow or red dye obtained from safflower
- carthusian — a member of an austere monastic order founded by Saint Bruno in 1084 near Grenoble, France
- 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.
- castrating — Present participle of castrate.
- castration — to remove the testes of; emasculate; geld.
- cat-harpin — any of a number of short ropes or rods for gathering in shrouds near their tops.
- catarrhine — (of apes and Old World monkeys) having the nostrils set close together and opening to the front of the face
- catenarian — the downward curve formed by chain or cord being fixed at two points
- catenaries — Plural form of catenary.
- catskinner — an operator of a vehicle or machine with caterpillar treads.
- 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
- centaurian — resembling or of the nature of a centaur
- centauries — Plural form of centaury.
- centigrade — Centigrade is a scale for measuring temperature, in which water freezes at 0 degrees and boils at 100 degrees. It is represented by the symbol °C.
- centigrams — Plural form of centigram.
- centralise — to draw to or gather about a center.
- centralism — Centralism is a way of governing a country, or organizing something such as industry, education, or politics, which involves having one central group of people who give instructions to everyone else.
- centralist — Centralist organizations govern a country or organize things using one central group of people who control and instruct everyone else.
- centrality — the state or condition of being central
- centralize — To centralize a country, state, or organization means to create a system in which one central group of people gives instructions to regional groups.
- centration — The tendency to focus on one aspect of a situation and neglect others.
- centroidal — of or relating to a centroid
- certainity — Misspelling of certainty.
- chambertin — a dry red burgundy wine produced in Gevrey-Chambertin in E France
- chartering — a document, issued by a sovereign or state, outlining the conditions under which a corporation, colony, city, or other corporate body is organized, and defining its rights and privileges.
- chattering — rapid and continuous talk
- 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
- chin strap — a strap attached to a hat for passing under the chin of the wearer.
- chin-strap — a strap attached to a hat for passing under the chin of the wearer.
- china tree — chinaberry (sense 1)
- chinstraps — Plural form of chinstrap.
- chitarrone — a large lute with a double neck in common use during the baroque period, esp in Italy
- chlorinate — to combine or treat (a substance) with chlorine
- chromatins — Plural form of chromatin.
- cineration — The reducing of anything to ashes by combustion; cinefaction.
- cistercian — a member of a Christian order of monks and nuns founded in 1098, which follows an especially strict form of the Benedictine rule
- citronalis — lemon verbena.
- citronella — a tropical Asian grass, Cymbopogon (or Andropogon) nardus, with bluish-green lemon-scented leaves
- clattering — to make a loud, rattling sound, as that produced by hard objects striking rapidly one against the other: The shutters clattered in the wind.
- cocreation — Joint creation.
- coloration — The coloration of an animal or a plant is the colours and patterns on it.
- combinator — (computer science) A lambda expression which has no free variables in it.
- con artist — A con artist is someone who tricks other people into giving them their money or property.
- concertina — A concertina is a musical instrument consisting of two end pieces with stiff paper or cloth that folds up between them. You play the concertina by pressing the buttons on the end pieces while moving them together and apart.