10-letter words containing n, o, i, r
- arrogation — to claim unwarrantably or presumptuously; assume or appropriate to oneself without right: to arrogate the right to make decisions.
- arsenolite — a mineral, arsenic trioxide, As 2 O 3 , occurring usually as a white incrustation on arsenical ores.
- 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
- ben-gurion — David, original name David Gruen. 1886–1973, Israeli socialist statesman, born in Poland; first prime minister of Israel (1948–53, 1955–63)
- bergsonism — the philosophy of Henri Bergson, which emphasizes duration as the basic element of experience and asserts the existence of a life-giving force that permeates the entire natural order
- beribboned — adorned with ribbons
- berlusconi — Silvio (ˈsilvjo). born 1936, Italian politician and media tycoon: prime minister of Italy (1994–95, 2001–06, 2008–11); convicted of tax fraud and expelled from the Italian Senate in 2013
- 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.
- 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.
- biocentric — centered in life; having life as its principal fact.
- biocontrol — the use of one living thing to control another
- 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
- 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
- blind door — a door having louvers permitting circulation of air.
- blind-worm — a limbless European lizard, Anguis fragilis, related to the glass lizards.
- blindstory — a windowless story