10-letter words containing n, o, r, a, i
- cornishman — a man who is a native or inhabitant of Cornwall
- 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)
- 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.
- counterair — (military) Attacking the air force of an opposing power.
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- croissants — Plural form of croissant.
- cruciation — (obsolete) torture; torment.
- crustation — the action of forming a crust
- cyclosarin — Cyclohexyl methylphosphonofluoridate, an extremely toxic substance used as a chemical weapon.
- dairywoman — a woman who owns, manages, or works in a dairy.
- dairywomen — Plural form of dairywoman.
- darlington — an industrial town in NE England in Darlington unitary authority, S Durham: developed mainly with the opening of the Stockton-Darlington railway (1825). Pop: 86 082 (2001)
- deaconries — Plural form of deaconry.
- deaeration — the act of extracting a gas from a liquid
- debonairly — In a debonair manner.
- debonnaire — courteous, gracious, and having a sophisticated charm: a debonair gentleman.
- decinormal — having one tenth of the strength of a standard solution
- declinator — a piece of apparatus that establishes the measure of a plane's deviation from the prime vertical or the meridian
- decorating — the painting or wallpapering of a room, house, etc
- decoration — The decoration of a room is its furniture, wallpaper, and ornaments.
- decreation — Destruction.
- deforciant — a person who wrongfully withholds something from someone by force
- delineator — a tailor's pattern, adjustable for different sizes
- deliration — delirium; madness
- delta iron — an allotrope of iron that exists between 1400°C and the melting point of iron and has the same structure as alpha iron
- dendroidal — Dendroid; resembling a shrub or tree.
- denigrator — to speak damagingly of; criticize in a derogatory manner; sully; defame: to denigrate someone's character.
- depuration — The action or process of freeing something of impurities.
- derivation — The derivation of something, especially a word, is its origin or source.
- derogating — Present participle of derogate.
- derogation — a lessening or weakening (of power, authority, position, etc.)