10-letter words containing n, o, r, a, c
- provencale — (sometimes lowercase) cooked, usually in olive oil, with garlic, tomatoes, onions, and herbs.
- provincial — belonging or peculiar to some particular province; local: the provincial newspaper.
- punchboard — a small board containing holes filled with slips of paper printed with concealed numbers that are punched out by a player in an attempt to win a prize.
- punctuator — to mark or divide (something written) with punctuation marks in order to make the meaning clear.
- pyrenocarp — Mycology. a perithecium.
- pyromaniac — a compulsion to set things on fire.
- pyromantic — divination by fire, or by forms appearing in fire.
- quadricone — a quadric surface swept out by a straight line that passes through a fixed point such that no straight line can intersect it at more than two points
- rabdomancy — Alt form rhabdomancy.
- racemation — a bunch, collection, or group
- rackabones — 'a rack of bones', a metaphor for a person or animal that is very thin or emaciated
- raconteurs — Plural form of raconteur.
- raconteuse — a woman who is skilled in relating stories and anecdotes interestingly.
- radication — the act or process of taking root
- radiogenic — Physics. produced by radioactive decay: radiogenic lead; radiogenic heat.
- rain cloud — a cloud or a mass of clouds that yields rain.
- rain-cloud — a cloud or a mass of clouds that yields rain.
- rascallion — a villain, a rascal
- re-contact — the act or state of touching; a touching or meeting, as of two things or people.
- re-enactor — a person who re-enacts something
- reactional — a reverse movement or tendency; an action in a reverse direction or manner.
- reannounce — to make known publicly or officially; proclaim; give notice of: to announce a special sale.
- recitation — an act of reciting.
- reckonable — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
- recontract — an agreement between two or more parties for the doing or not doing of something specified.
- recreation — the act of creating anew.
- recusation — the act of recusing a judge
- 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.
- relocation — to move (a building, company, etc.) to a different location: plans to relocate the firm to Houston.
- reprobance — reprobation.
- retraction — the act of retracting or the state of being retracted.
- revocation — the act of revoking; annulment.
- rhinotheca — the covering of the upper part of the beak in birds
- richardson — Henry Handel (Henrietta Richardson Robertson) 1870–1946, Australian novelist.
- rio branco — a state in W Brazil. 58,900 sq. mi. (152,550 sq. km). Capital: Rio Branco.
- rock candy — sugar in large, hard, cohering crystals.
- rock plant — a plant found among rocks or in rock gardens.
- rock snake — any large Australasian python of the genus Liasis
- rock-candy — sugar in large, hard, cohering crystals.
- rockingham — Second Marquis of, Charles Watson-Wentworth.
- roman arch — a semicircular arch.
- roman pace — an ancient Roman unit of measurement, equal to 5 Roman feet or about 58 U.S. inches (147 cm).
- romancical — relating to or dealing with romance
- root canal — Also called pulp canal. the root portion of the pulp cavity.
- ropedancer — a person who walks across or performs acrobatics upon a rope stretched at some height above the floor or ground.
- round arch — an arch formed in a continuous curve, especially in a semicircle.
- round clam — quahog.
- run across — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- sacramento — a state in the W United States, on the Pacific coast. 158,693 sq. mi. (411,015 sq. km). Capital: Sacramento. Abbreviation: CA (for use with zip code), Cal., Calif.
- sacrosanct — extremely sacred or inviolable: a sacrosanct chamber in the temple.