10-letter words containing n, o, a, i, r
- arvicoline — inhabiting meadows or rural areas
- arytenoids — Plural form of arytenoid.
- ascription — the act of ascribing
- asgeirsson — Asgeir [ahs-gair] /ˈɑs gɛər/ (Show IPA), 1894–1972, Icelandic statesman: president 1952–68.
- asia minor — large peninsula in W Asia, between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean, including Asiatic Turkey west of an undefined line from the Gulf of Iskenderun to the Black Sea
- asperation — The act of asperating; a making or becoming rough.
- aspersions — disparaging or malicious remarks; slanderous accusations
- aspiration — Someone's aspirations are their desire to achieve things.
- assertions — Plural form of assertion.
- astriction — to bind fast; constrain.
- astrionics — the science dealing with the application of electronics to astronautics.
- astronomic — of, relating to, or connected with astronomy.
- atrophying — Also, atrophia [uh-troh-fee-uh] /əˈtroʊ fi ə/ (Show IPA). Pathology. a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage.
- attraction — An attraction is a feature which makes something interesting or desirable.
- auctionary — of or relating to auctions or auctioneers
- auctioneer — An auctioneer is a person in charge of an auction.
- auditioner — a person who attends an audition
- auguration — The practice of augury.
- aureomycin — chlortetracycline
- ausforming — a treatment to strengthen hard steels, prior to quenching, in which the specimen is plastically deformed while it is in the austenite temperature range
- autowinder — a battery-operated device for advancing the film in a camera automatically after each exposure
- aversation — (obsolete) A turning from with dislike; aversion.
- bacon rind — the outer edge of a slice of bacon, corresponding to the skin of the pig
- bandoliers — Plural form of bandolier.
- baragnosis — loss of the ability to estimate or perceive the weight of an object.
- bargain on — to rely or depend on (something)
- bargainous — (informal) cheap (characteristic of a bargain).
- baroclinic — of, relating to, or having the property of baroclinity.
- barognosis — the ability to judge weight
- 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
- bicornuate — Botany, Zoology. having two horns or hornlike parts.
- bingo card — a prepaid postcard inserted in a magazine by its publisher to enable a reader to order free information about advertised products.
- binoculars — Binoculars consist of two small telescopes joined together side by side, which you look through in order to look at things that are a long way away.
- bioorganic — pertaining to the composition and biological activity of carbon-based compounds, especially those of laboratory rather than biogenic origin (contrasted with bioinorganic).
- bioreagent — a reagent of biological origin, such as an enzyme
- boat train — A boat train is a train that takes you to or from a port.
- boisbriand — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal.
- bombarding — to attack or batter with artillery fire.
- bordraging — an attack or raid on a border region
- boring bar — Metalworking. a bar holding a tool for boring a cylinder or the like.
- born-again — A born-again Christian is a person who has become an evangelical Christian as a result of a religious experience.
- boundaries — something that indicates bounds or limits; a limiting or bounding line.
- brainpower — Brainpower is intelligence or the ability to think.
- 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
- brian boru — ?941–1014, king of Ireland (1002–14): killed during the defeat of the Danes at the battle of Clontarf
- brno chair — an armchair designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1930, having a cantilevered frame of chromium-plated or stainless steel composed of two interlocking parts, one forming the legs and arms and the other the seat and back frame, with the back and seat lightly upholstered and usually covered with leather.
- buccinator — a thin muscle that compresses the cheeks and holds them against the teeth during chewing, etc