10-letter words containing n, o, t, r, y
- newsworthy — of sufficient interest to the public or a special audience to warrant press attention or coverage.
- non parity — parity
- noncountry — a region, administrative entity, or principality that does not have nation or country status
- nonstarchy — Alternative spelling of non-starchy.
- north york — city in SE Ontario, Canada: part of metropolitan Toronto: pop. 590,000
- norway rat — an Old World rat, Rattus norvegicus, having a grayish-brown body with whitish underparts and a long, scaly tail, now common in the U.S. in or near homes, barns, wharves, etc.
- not nearly — nowhere near
- noteworthy — worthy of notice or attention; notable; remarkable: a noteworthy addition to our collection of rare books.
- numerosity — very many; being or existing in great quantity: numerous visits; numerous fish.
- octogenary — (obsolete) Of eighty years of age.
- omniparity — a state of universal equality
- on liberty — a treatise (1859) by John Stuart Mill on the rights of the individual within the state.
- ordinately — in an ordered manner
- organicity — noting or pertaining to a class of chemical compounds that formerly comprised only those existing in or derived from plants or animals, but that now includes all other compounds of carbon.
- orientally — In an oriental manner.
- orotundity — (of the voice or speech) characterized by strength, fullness, richness, and clearness.
- oxygenator — to treat, combine, or enrich with oxygen: to oxygenate the blood.
- paroxytone — having an acute accent on the next to the last syllable.
- patrocliny — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the paternal parent (opposed to matrocliny).
- patronymic — (of family names) derived from the name of a father or ancestor, especially by the addition of a suffix or prefix indicating descent.
- pennyworth — as much as may be bought for a penny.
- periphyton — the community of tiny organisms, as protozoans, hydras, insect larvae, and snails, that lives on the surfaces of rooted aquatic plants.
- personalty — personal estate or property.
- petromoney — the money that is regarded in terms of income derived from petroleum
- phenocryst — any of the conspicuous crystals in a porphyritic rock.
- pontypridd — an industrial town in S Wales, in Rhondda Cynon Taff county borough. Pop: 29 781 (2001)
- pony truss — a through bridge truss having its deck between the top and bottom chords and having no top lateral bracing.
- portraying — to make a likeness of by drawing, painting, carving, or the like.
- post entry — a late entry, as a horse in a horse show or race.
- potentiary — a person with power or authority
- poultryman — a person who raises domestic fowls, especially chickens, to sell as meat; a chicken farmer.
- pre-notify — to inform (someone) or give notice to: to notify the police of a crime.
- prepotency — the ability of one parent to impress its hereditary characters on its progeny because it possesses more homozygous, dominant, or epistatic genes.
- profundity — the quality or state of being profound; depth.
- promontory — a high point of land or rock projecting into the sea or other water beyond the line of coast; a headland.
- propensity — a natural inclination or tendency: a propensity to drink too much.
- protensity — the actuality of duration
- protonymph — the newly hatched form of various mites
- pycnometer — a container used for determining the density of a liquid or powder, having a specific volume and often provided with a thermometer to indicate the temperature of the contained substance.
- pyromantic — divination by fire, or by forms appearing in fire.
- pyrotechny — the art of making fireworks
- pyroxenite — any rock composed essentially, or in large part, of pyroxene of any kind.
- rationally — agreeable to reason; reasonable; sensible: a rational plan for economic development.
- resonantly — resounding or echoing, as sounds: the resonant thundering of cannons being fired.
- royal mint — a British organization having the sole right to manufacture coins since the 16th century. In 1968 it moved from London to Llantrisant in Wales
- roystering — roister.
- rusty iron — (jargon, hardware) Synonym tired iron. It has been claimed that this is the inevitable fate of water MIPS.
- sentry box — a small structure for sheltering a sentry from bad weather.
- sooty tern — a black and white tern, Sterna fuscata, of small tropical islands.
- southernly — southerly.