10-letter words containing n, y, o, r, s
- pyrrhonism — the Skeptic doctrines of Pyrrho and his followers.
- ravenously — extremely hungry; famished; voracious: feeling ravenous after a hard day's work.
- reasonably — agreeable to reason or sound judgment; logical: a reasonable choice for chairman.
- resonantly — resounding or echoing, as sounds: the resonant thundering of cannons being fired.
- responsory — an anthem sung after a lection by a soloist and choir alternately.
- rhinoscopy — examination of the nasal passages, esp with a rhinoscope
- rosy finch — any of several finches of the genus Leucosticte, of Asia and western North America, having dark brown plumage with a pinkish wash on the wings and rump.
- roystering — roister.
- rusty iron — (jargon, hardware) Synonym tired iron. It has been claimed that this is the inevitable fate of water MIPS.
- scornfully — full of scorn; derisive; contemptuous: He smiled in a scornful way.
- sentry box — a small structure for sheltering a sentry from bad weather.
- snobocracy — a social class of snobs
- sonography — the medical diagnostic imaging technique used to see internal organs, muscles, etc
- sonorously — giving out or capable of giving out a sound, especially a deep, resonant sound, as a thing or place: a sonorous cavern.
- sooty tern — a black and white tern, Sterna fuscata, of small tropical islands.
- sophrosyne — moderation; discretion; prudence.
- southernly — southerly.
- sportingly — engaging in, disposed to, or interested in open-air or athletic sports: a rugged, sporting man.
- spun rayon — yarn produced by spinning short, uniform lengths of rayon filaments into a continuous strand.
- stationary — standing still; not moving.
- stationery — writing paper.
- stenotyper — a machine with a keyboard for recording speeches or dictation in phonetic shorthand
- story line — plot (def 2).
- stubbornly — unreasonably obstinate; obstinately unmoving: a stubborn child.
- suspensory — a supporting bandage, muscle, ligament, etc.
- synandrous — with united stamens
- synaxarion — a summary of the life of a saint or of the particulars of a feast, read at the orthros.
- syncarpous — of the nature of or pertaining to a syncarp.
- synchronal — synchronous.
- synchronic — having reference to the facts of a linguistic system as it exists at one point in time without reference to its history: synchronic analysis; synchronic dialectology.
- syndicator — a person who establishes a syndicate
- synthronus — a combined throne for a bishop and his presbyters
- transitory — not lasting, enduring, permanent, or eternal.
- tyrosinase — an oxidizing enzyme, occurring in plant and animal tissues, that catalyzes the aerobic oxidation of tyrosine into melanin and other pigments.
- understory — the shrubs and plants growing beneath the main canopy of a forest.
- untouristy — not typical of a tourist: They're the most untouristy couple you ever met.
- urinoscopy — uroscopy.
- waynesboro — a city in N Virginia.
- wondrously — wonderful; remarkable.
- wrongously — in an unjust or unfair manner
- xenocrysts — Plural form of xenocryst.
- yestermorn — (obsolete) Yesterday morning.
- yesternoon — yesterday noon.
- youngsters — Plural form of youngster.