10-letter words containing n, o, s, a, c
- compensate — To compensate someone for money or things that they have lost means to pay them money or give them something to replace that money or those things.
- complaints — A statement that a situation is unsatisfactory or unacceptable.
- con artist — A con artist is someone who tricks other people into giving them their money or property.
- con maesta — majestically (used as a musical direction).
- conacreism — the Irish system of letting farming land for a season or for eleven months
- concealers — Plural form of concealer.
- conclavism — a minority movement (and the beliefs of certain Traditionalist Catholics) that rejects the authority of the established pope and instead supports an alternative pope
- conclavist — either of two persons who attend upon a cardinal at a conclave, one usually being an ecclesiastical secretary and the other a personal servant.
- concordats — Plural form of concordat.
- condensate — a substance formed by condensation, such as a liquid from a vapour
- condylomas — Plural form of condyloma.
- confessant — a person who makes a confession
- confidants — a close friend or associate to whom secrets are confided or with whom private matters and problems are discussed.
- confiscate — If you confiscate something from someone, you take it away from them, usually as a punishment.
- confusable — Able or liable to be confused with something else.
- confusably — In a confusable way; such that they may be confused.
- conjugates — Plural form of conjugate.
- connascent — born, produced, or growing simultaneously
- connations — Plural form of connation.
- connotates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of connotate.
- consecrate — When a building, place, or object is consecrated, it is officially declared to be holy. When a person is consecrated, they are officially declared to be a bishop.
- consectary — a consequence or conclusion
- consensual — A consensual approach, view, or decision is one that is based on general agreement among all the members of a group.
- consentual — involving or carried out by mutual consent: a consentual divorce.
- conservant — having the quality of conserving or preserving
- conservate — (dated, transitive) To conserve.
- consimilar — similar; alike
- consistant — Misspelling of consistent.
- consociate — to enter into or bring into friendly association
- consolable — to alleviate or lessen the grief, sorrow, or disappointment of; give solace or comfort: Only his children could console him when his wife died.
- consolably — In an consolable manner.
- consonance — agreement, harmony, or accord
- consonancy — consonance (sense 1)
- consonants — Phonetics. (in English articulation) a speech sound produced by occluding with or without releasing (p, b; t, d; k, g), diverting (m, n, ng), or obstructing (f, v; s, z, etc.) the flow of air from the lungs (opposed to vowel). (in a syllable) any sound other than the sound of greatest sonority in the syllable, as b, r, and g in brig (opposed to sonant). Compare vowel (def 1b). (in linguistic function) a concept empirically determined as a phonological element in structural contrast with vowel, as the b of be, the w of we, the y, s, and t of yeast, etc.
- consortial — a combination of financial institutions, capitalists, etc., for carrying into effect some financial operation requiring large resources of capital.
- conspiracy — Conspiracy is the secret planning by a group of people to do something illegal.
- conspirant — planning a crime or harmful act in secret
- constables — Plural form of constable.
- constans i — (Flavius Julius Constans) a.d. c323–350, emperor of Rome 337–350 (son of Constantine I).
- constantan — an alloy of copper (60 per cent) and nickel (40 per cent). It has a high resistivity that does not vary significantly with temperature and is used in resistors and, with copper, in thermocouples
- constantia — a region of the Cape Peninsula
- constantly — not changing or varying; uniform; regular; invariable: All conditions during the three experiments were constant.
- constative — (of a statement) able to be true or false
- constipate — to cause constipation in
- constrains — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of constrain.
- constraint — A constraint is something that limits or controls what you can do.
- consulates — Plural form of consulate.
- consultant — A consultant is an experienced doctor with a high position, who specializes in one area of medicine.
- consumable — Consumable goods are items which are intended to be bought, used, and then replaced.
- consummate — You use consummate to describe someone who is extremely skilful.