10-letter words containing n, o, t, u, r
- overturner — a person who overturns
- perdu-mont — Mont [mawn] /mɔ̃/ (Show IPA). French name of Monte Perdido.
- peritoneum — the serous membrane lining the abdominal cavity and investing its viscera.
- pleurodont — fused or attached to the inner edge of the jaw, as a tooth.
- pony truss — a through bridge truss having its deck between the top and bottom chords and having no top lateral bracing.
- port huron — a port in SE Michigan, on the St. Clair River, at the S end of Lake Huron.
- port sudan — a seaport in the NE Sudan, on the Red Sea.
- portentous — of the nature of a portent; momentous.
- poultryman — a person who raises domestic fowls, especially chickens, to sell as meat; a chicken farmer.
- pour it on — to flatter profusely
- pour point — the lowest temperature at which a substance will flow under given conditions.
- precaution — a measure taken in advance to avert possible evil or to secure good results.
- procumbent — lying on the face; prone; prostrate.
- production — the act of producing; creation; manufacture.
- profulgent — radiant
- profundity — the quality or state of being profound; depth.
- prosternum — the ventral sclerite of the prothorax of an insect.
- proteinous — Biochemistry. any of numerous, highly varied organic molecules constituting a large portion of the mass of every life form and necessary in the diet of all animals and other nonphotosynthesizing organisms, composed of 20 or more amino acids linked in a genetically controlled linear sequence into one or more long polypeptide chains, the final shape and other properties of each protein being determined by the side chains of the amino acids and their chemical attachments: proteins include such specialized forms as collagen for supportive tissue, hemoglobin for transport, antibodies for immune defense, and enzymes for metabolism.
- protohuman — of, relating to, or resembling extinct hominid populations that had some but not all the features of modern Homo sapiens.
- protruding — to project.
- protrusion — the act of protruding or the state of being protruded.
- pultrusion — a process for manufacturing reinforced plastic products in which a bundle of glass fibres is pulled through a resin bath and then through a heated die to shape the resin
- punctiform — shaped like or of the nature of a point or dot.
- punctuator — to mark or divide (something written) with punctuation marks in order to make the meaning clear.
- puntillero — (in bullfighting) a worker, or assistant, who gives the coup de grâce to the fallen bull with a puntilla.
- purporting — to present, especially deliberately, the appearance of being; profess or claim, often falsely: a document purporting to be official.
- put in for — to request or apply for
- quartation — the adding of silver to a mixture of gold and silver until the ratio is about one to three, at which point the silver can be removed using nitric acid
- quaternion — a group or set of four persons or things.
- quatorzain — a verse of fourteen lines
- quercitron — an oak, Quercus velutina, of eastern North America, the inner bark of which yields a yellow dye.
- quernstone — Either of a pair of stones used for grinding material by hand.
- questioner — a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.
- quickthorn — hawthorn, esp when planted as a hedge
- quincewort — Squinancywort.
- quinestrol — a synthetic estrogen, C 2 5 H 3 2 O 2 , used in oral contraceptives.
- raconteurs — Plural form of raconteur.
- raconteuse — a woman who is skilled in relating stories and anecdotes interestingly.
- reconquest — the act or state of conquering or the state of being conquered; vanquishment.
- recontinue — to continue (an action, process or condition, etc) again after an interruption or pause
- recounting — to relate or narrate; tell in detail; give the facts or particulars of.
- recoupment — to get back the equivalent of: to recoup one's losses by a lucky investment.
- recusation — the act of recusing a judge
- rediscount — to discount again.
- redocument — a written or printed paper furnishing information or evidence, as a passport, deed, bill of sale, or bill of lading; a legal or official paper.
- refutation — an act of refuting a statement, charge, etc.; disproof.
- regulation — a law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.
- rencounter — a hostile meeting; battle.
- reputation — the estimation in which a person or thing is held, especially by the community or the public generally; repute: a man of good reputation.
- requestion — a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.