10-letter words containing n, o, i, t, r
- purporting — to present, especially deliberately, the appearance of being; profess or claim, often falsely: a document purporting to be official.
- put in for — to request or apply for
- pyromantic — divination by fire, or by forms appearing in fire.
- pyroxenite — any rock composed essentially, or in large part, of pyroxene of any kind.
- quartation — the adding of silver to a mixture of gold and silver until the ratio is about one to three, at which point the silver can be removed using nitric acid
- quaternion — a group or set of four persons or things.
- quatorzain — a verse of fourteen lines
- quercitron — an oak, Quercus velutina, of eastern North America, the inner bark of which yields a yellow dye.
- questioner — a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.
- quickthorn — hawthorn, esp when planted as a hedge
- quincewort — Squinancywort.
- quinestrol — a synthetic estrogen, C 2 5 H 3 2 O 2 , used in oral contraceptives.
- rabinowitz — Solomon, Aleichem, Sholom.
- racemation — a bunch, collection, or group
- radication — the act or process of taking root
- rainforest — a tropical forest, usually of tall, densely growing, broad-leaved evergreen trees in an area of high annual rainfall.
- rat poison — substance toxic to rodents
- rationally — agreeable to reason; reasonable; sensible: a rational plan for economic development.
- razor-thin — A razor-thin majority or profit is a very small one.
- re-edition — a new edition
- reactional — a reverse movement or tendency; an action in a reverse direction or manner.
- readoption — the adoption of something or someone again
- recitation — an act of reciting.
- recontinue — to continue (an action, process or condition, etc) again after an interruption or pause
- recounting — to relate or narrate; tell in detail; give the facts or particulars of.
- recreation — the act of creating anew.
- recusation — the act of recusing a judge
- redemption — an act of redeeming or atoning for a fault or mistake, or the state of being redeemed.
- rediscount — to discount again.
- reef point — one of several short lengths of line stitched through a sail for tying a reef
- reelection — the selection of a person or persons for office by vote.
- reflection — the act of reflecting, as in casting back a light or heat, mirroring, or giving back or showing an image; the state of being reflected in this way.
- refraction — Physics. the change of direction of a ray of light, sound, heat, or the like, in passing obliquely from one medium into another in which its wave velocity is different.
- refutation — an act of refuting a statement, charge, etc.; disproof.
- regelation — a phenomenon in which the freezing point of water is lowered by the application of pressure; the melting and refreezing of ice, at constant temperature, caused by varying the pressure.
- regulation — a law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.
- reignition — the act or fact of igniting; state of being ignited.
- reknotting — the craft of repairing knots, esp in a carpet or jewellery
- relational — of or relating to relations.
- relaxation — abatement or relief from bodily or mental work, effort, application, etc.
- relegation — to send or consign to an inferior position, place, or condition: He has been relegated to a post at the fringes of the diplomatic service.
- relocation — to move (a building, company, etc.) to a different location: plans to relocate the firm to Houston.
- remigation — the act of rowing
- remonetize — to restore to use as legal tender: to remonetize silver.
- renegation — the act of denying: He shook his head in negation of the charge.
- renominate — to nominate again
- renotation — a system of graphic symbols for a specialized use, other than ordinary writing: musical notation.
- renovation — to restore to good condition; make new or as if new again; repair.
- renovative — to restore to good condition; make new or as if new again; repair.
- reparation — the making of amends for wrong or injury done: reparation for an injustice.