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10-letter words containing n, o, c, r, y

  • patronymic — (of family names) derived from the name of a father or ancestor, especially by the addition of a suffix or prefix indicating descent.
  • phenocryst — any of the conspicuous crystals in a porphyritic rock.
  • polyandric — polyandrous.
  • pornocracy — government or domination of government by whores
  • prepotency — the ability of one parent to impress its hereditary characters on its progeny because it possesses more homozygous, dominant, or epistatic genes.
  • prominency — Also, prominency. the state of being prominent; conspicuousness.
  • pycnometer — a container used for determining the density of a liquid or powder, having a specific volume and often provided with a thermometer to indicate the temperature of the contained substance.
  • pyrenocarp — Mycology. a perithecium.
  • pyromaniac — a compulsion to set things on fire.
  • pyromantic — divination by fire, or by forms appearing in fire.
  • pyrotechny — the art of making fireworks
  • rabdomancy — Alt form rhabdomancy.
  • revolvency — the act or state of revolving
  • rhinoscopy — examination of the nasal passages, esp with a rhinoscope
  • rock candy — sugar in large, hard, cohering crystals.
  • rock-candy — sugar in large, hard, cohering crystals.
  • rosy finch — any of several finches of the genus Leucosticte, of Asia and western North America, having dark brown plumage with a pinkish wash on the wings and rump.
  • scornfully — full of scorn; derisive; contemptuous: He smiled in a scornful way.
  • snobocracy — a social class of snobs
  • syncarpous — of the nature of or pertaining to a syncarp.
  • synchronal — synchronous.
  • synchronic — having reference to the facts of a linguistic system as it exists at one point in time without reference to its history: synchronic analysis; synchronic dialectology.
  • syndicator — a person who establishes a syndicate
  • tobramycin — a highly toxic aminoglycoside antibiotic, C 18 H 37 N 5 O 9 , derived from Streptomyces tenebarius, used in the treatment of serious infections due to susceptible Gram-positive and Gram-negative organisms.
  • trichogyne — a hairlike prolongation of a carpogonium, serving as a receptive organ for the spermatium.
  • tyrocidine — an antibiotic that is the main constituent of tyrothricin
  • unforcedly — in an unforced manner
  • up country — away from the coast or the capital
  • urinoscopy — uroscopy.
  • xenocrysts — Plural form of xenocryst.
  • zygobranch — a creature belonging to the Zygobranchia genus, which includes molluscs with paired gills
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