10-letter words containing n, o, t, r, y
- cyclotrons — Plural form of cyclotron.
- decryption — to decode or decipher.
- destroying — Present participle of destroy.
- dictionary — (as modifier)
- divinatory — the practice of attempting to foretell future events or discover hidden knowledge by occult or supernatural means.
- drying-out — the process of detoxifying an alcoholic patient: Drying-out takes time.
- dyscontrol — The inability to control one's behavior.
- dystrophin — a protein, the absence of which is believed to cause muscular dystrophy
- econometry — Econometrics.
- effrontery — shameless or impudent boldness; barefaced audacity: She had the effrontery to ask for two free samples.
- embryonate — relating to, or having, an embryo
- emendatory — (archaic) Pertaining to emendation; corrective.
- encryption — (cryptography) The process of obscuring information to make it unreadable without special knowledge, key files, and/or passwords. May also apply to electronic signal, hard drive, message, document...
- endothermy — (biology) A form of thermoregulation in which heat is generated by the organism's metabolism.
- enterocyte — A cell of the intestinal lining.
- enterology — The study of the intestines.
- enterotomy — The surgical cutting open of the intestine.
- entry form — customs
- entry word — in book
- entryphone — an intercom system at the entrance to a building through which visitors identify themselves so that someone inside can let them in by a device which unlocks the door remotely
- ergatogyne — a wingless, worker-like ant with female characteristics
- erythrocin — (medicine) synonym of erythromycin.
- eyes front — a command to troops to look ahead
- factionary — a member of a faction
- festoonery — a decoration of festoons.
- fort henry — Joseph, 1797–1878, U.S. physicist.
- fort payne — a town in NE Alabama.
- fort wayne — a city in NE Indiana.
- fortifying — Present participle of fortify.
- forty-nine — a cardinal number, 40 plus 9.
- fortypenny — being 5 inches (13 cm) long: a fortypenny nail. Symbol: 40d.
- foudroyant — striking as with lightning; sudden and overwhelming in effect; stunning; dazzling.
- frontality — the representation of the front view of figures or objects in a work of art.
- gastronomy — the art or science of good eating.
- generosity — readiness or liberality in giving.
- goniometry — an instrument for measuring solid angles, as of crystals.
- gynecocrat — gynarchy.
- gyneolatry — The adoration or worship of women.
- gyniolatry — an extreme form of love and attachment to women
- gynocratic — Pertaining to government by women.
- gyrational — Of, pertaining to, or caused by gyration.
- hemelytron — one of the forewings of a true bug, having a hard, thick basal portion and a thinner, membranous apex.
- herniotomy — correction of a hernia by a cutting procedure.
- heterodyne — noting or pertaining to a method of changing the frequency of an incoming radio signal by adding it to a signal generated within the receiver to produce fluctuations or beats of a frequency equal to the difference between the two signals.
- heterogeny — the condition or state of being heterogenous
- heterogony — the alternation of dioecious and hermaphroditic individuals in successive generations, as in certain nematodes.
- heteronomy — the condition of being under the domination of an outside authority, either human or divine.
- heteronyms — Plural form of heteronym.
- honeyeater — An Australasian songbird with a long brushlike tongue for feeding on nectar.
- hypaethron — a part of a building or court which is open to the sky