10-letter words containing n, o, r, a, c
- corncrakes — Plural form of corncrake.
- cornerback — a defensive back
- cornflakes — a breakfast cereal made from toasted maize, eaten with milk, sugar, etc
- cornishman — a man who is a native or inhabitant of Cornwall
- cornstalks — Plural form of cornstalk.
- cornstarch — Cornstarch is the same as cornflour.
- cornucopia — A cornucopia of things is a large number of different things.
- cornwallis — Charles, 1st Marquis Cornwallis. 1738–1805, British general in the War of American Independence: commanded forces defeated at Yorktown (1781): defeated Tipu Sahib (1791): governor general of Bengal (1786–93, 1805): negotiated the Treaty of Amiens (1801)
- coromandel — calamander
- coronalled — a crown; coronet.
- coronaries — Plural form of coronary.
- coronatine — A polycyclic phytotoxin, produced by some forms of Pseudomonas, that can induce chlorosis.
- coronating — having or wearing a crown, coronet, or the like.
- coronation — A coronation is the ceremony at which a king or queen is crowned.
- corotation — the act of corotating
- corralling — an enclosure or pen for horses, cattle, etc.
- corrigenda — Plural form of corrigendum.
- corybantic — frenzied; agitated; unrestrained.
- corydaline — an alkaloid, C22H27NO4, that is found in the roots of certain plants of the genus Corydalis
- costarring — Present participle of costar.
- coterminal — having the same border or covering the same area.
- cotransfer — a simultaneous transfer of multiple genes
- counteract — To counteract something means to reduce its effect by doing something that produces an opposite effect.
- counterair — (military) Attacking the air force of an opposing power.
- counterman — a man who works on a lunch counter or behind the counter of a cafe
- counterwar — War waged in response to another war.
- countryman — Your countrymen are people from your own country.
- courantyne — a river in N South America, rising in S Guyana and flowing north to the Atlantic, forming the boundary between Guyana and Surinam. Length: 765 km (475 miles)
- court hand — a style of handwriting formerly used in English law courts
- courtesans — Plural form of courtesan.
- covariance — a measure of the association between two random variables, equal to the expected value of the product of the deviations from the mean of the two variables, and estimated by the sum of products of deviations from the sample mean for associated values of the two variables, divided by the number of sample points. Written as Cov (X, Y)
- covenanter — a person upholding the National Covenant of 1638 or the Solemn League and Covenant of 1643 between Scotland and England to establish and defend Presbyterianism
- covenantor — a party who makes a promise and who is to perform the obligation expressed in a covenant
- coventrate — To devastate by heavy bombing.
- cover band — a band that makes or performs cover versions of songs
- cowardness — Synonym of cowardice.
- crab canon — a canon in which the imitating voice repeats the notes of the theme in reverse order
- crack down — If people in authority crack down on a group of people, they become stricter in making the group obey rules or laws.
- crackdowns — Plural form of crackdown.
- cradlesong — a lullaby
- cramp iron — a piece of iron with bent ends for holding together building stones or the like.
- craniology — the branch of science concerned with the shape and size of the human skull, esp with reference to variations between different races
- craniotomy — any surgical incision into the skull, esp to expose the brain for neurosurgery
- crazy bone — funny bone
- creational — Of, or pertaining to creation.
- cremations — Plural form of cremation.
- cribration — the action of sifting, esp (in pharmacy) to separate finer particles of a drug from coarser particles
- crinoidean — of or relating to the Crinoidea, an order of echinoderms
- crispation — the act of curling or state of being curled
- cro magnon — an Upper Paleolithic population of humans, regarded as the prototype of modern Homo sapiens in Europe. Skeletal remains found in an Aurignacian cave in southern France indicate that the Cro-Magnon had long heads, broad faces, and sunken eyes, and reached a height of approximately 5 feet 9 inches (175 cm).