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10-letter words containing n, r, e

  • bunker oil — Nautical. oil taken on board a tanker as fuel, as distinguished from the oil carried as cargo.
  • bunt order — a dominance hierarchy seen in herds of cattle, established and maintained by bunting.
  • buonaparte — Bonaparte1
  • burdensome — If you describe something as burdensome, you mean it is worrying or hard to deal with.
  • burgenland — a state of E Austria. Capital: Eisenstadt. Pop: 276 419 (2003 est). Area: 3965 sq km (1531 sq miles)
  • burgeoning — rapidly developing or growing; flourishing
  • burlingame — Anson [an-suh n] /ˈæn sən/ (Show IPA), 1820–70, U.S. diplomat.
  • burned-out — consumed; rendered unserviceable or ineffectual by maximum use: a burned-out tube.
  • burnettize — to preserve (timber) with a solution of zinc chloride
  • burnsville — a city in SE Minnesota.
  • burnt lime — calcium oxide; quicklime
  • burnt-lime — Also called burnt lime, calcium oxide, caustic lime, calx, quicklime. a white or grayish-white, odorless, lumpy, very slightly water-soluble solid, CaO, that when combined with water forms calcium hydroxide (slaked lime) obtained from calcium carbonate, limestone, or oyster shells: used chiefly in mortars, plasters, and cements, in bleaching powder, and in the manufacture of steel, paper, glass, and various chemicals of calcium.
  • bushranger — an escaped convict or robber living in the bush
  • button ear — a dog's ear that folds forward completely.
  • by-numbers — done in an uninspired, simplistic, or formulaic way
  • c terminus — the carboxyl end of a protein molecule.
  • cabin crew — The cabin crew on an aircraft are the people whose job is to look after the passengers.
  • cabineteer — (sometimes initial capital letter) a member of a governmental cabinet.
  • cadaverine — a toxic diamine with an unpleasant smell, produced by protein hydrolysis during putrefaction of animal tissue. Formula: NH2(CH2)5NH2
  • caernarfon — a port and resort in NW Wales, in Gwynedd on the Menai Strait: 13th-century castle. Pop: 9726 (2001)
  • caernarvon — a seaport in W Gwynedd, in NW Wales, on Menai Strait: 13th-century castle of Edward II.
  • caesareans — Plural form of caesarean, an alternative capitalization of 'Caesarean'.
  • calamander — the hard black-and-brown striped wood of several trees of the genus Diospyros, esp D. quaesita of India and Sri Lanka, used in making furniture: family Ebenaceae
  • calciminer — A person who calcimines.
  • calcsinter — travertine.
  • calendared — a table or register with the days of each month and week in a year: He marked the date on his calendar.
  • calendarer — a person who calendars
  • calendered — Simple past tense and past participle of calender.
  • calenderer — a person who operates a calender
  • cameration — vaulting
  • camerlengo — a cardinal who acts as the pope's financial secretary and the papal treasurer
  • campaigner — A campaigner is a person who campaigns for social or political change.
  • camper van — A camper van is a van which is equipped with beds and cooking equipment so that you can live, cook, and sleep in it.
  • can opener — A can opener is the same as a tin opener.
  • can-opener — a manual device or small electric appliance for opening cans.
  • cancerette — (slang, derogatory) A cigarette.
  • cancerroot — any parasitic plant of the genus Orobanche, especially O. uniflora, of North America, having pale, leafless stalks bearing a single white or purplish flower.
  • cancionero — a songbook
  • candelabra — A candelabra is an ornamental holder for two or more candles.
  • cane chair — a chair, the back and seat of which are made of interlaced strips of cane.
  • cane grass — any of several tall perennial hard-stemmed grasses, esp Eragrostis australasica, of inland swamps
  • cane sugar — the sucrose obtained from sugar cane, which is identical to that obtained from sugar beet
  • canebrakes — Plural form of canebrake.
  • canecutter — any of several species of large cottontails inhabiting swamps or marshes.
  • canephoros — in ancient Greece, any of the maidens who carried on her head a basket holding the sacred things used at feasts
  • caney fork — a river in central Tennessee, flowing NW to the Cumberland River. 144 miles (232 km) long.
  • cankeredly — spitefully or crabbedly
  • cankerroot — goldthread.
  • cankerworm — the larva of either of two geometrid moths, Paleacrita vernata or Alsophila pometaria, which feed on and destroy fruit and shade trees in North America
  • cannelured — a groove or fluting around the cylindrical part of a bullet.
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