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10-letter words containing n, y, o, r

  • buffoonery — Buffoonery is foolish behaviour that makes you laugh.
  • candy corn — a small candy shaped and colored to look like a kernel of corn.
  • caney fork — a river in central Tennessee, flowing NW to the Cumberland River. 144 miles (232 km) long.
  • canorously — In a canorous manner.
  • carbonylic — of, relating to, or characteristic of the carbonyl group.
  • cartomancy — the telling of fortunes with playing cards
  • cautionary — A cautionary story or a cautionary note to a story is one that is intended to give a warning to people.
  • cessionary — a person to whom something is transferred; assignee; grantee
  • chardonnay — a white grape originally grown in the Burgundy region of France, and now throughout the wine-producing world
  • chernovtsy — a city in Ukraine on the Prut River: formerly under Polish, Austro-Hungarian, and Romanian rule; part of the Soviet Union (1947–91). Pop: 237 000 (2005 est)
  • chirognomy — the study of the hand in order to discern a person's nature or future events
  • chiromancy — palmistry
  • chlorinity — the amount of chlorine present in water, esp sea-water
  • chlorodyne — a drug, containing chloroform among other ingredients, with sedative, narcotic and pain-relieving properties
  • chronicity — constant; habitual; inveterate: a chronic liar.
  • chronology — The chronology of a series of past events is the times at which they happened in the order in which they happened.
  • chrysophan — a glucoside that is bitter to the taste and yellow in colour
  • cleromancy — a divination involving dice-throwing or lot-casting
  • cockernony — a woman's hairstyle in which the hair is gathered up in a band
  • coeternity — existence for, from, or in eternity with another being
  • coherently — logically connected; consistent: a coherent argument.
  • commandery — a manor under the charge of a commander of a religious military order of knights
  • commentary — A commentary is a description of an event that is broadcast on radio or television while the event is taking place.
  • commorancy — a dwelling in a place; usual or temporary residence in a place.
  • conciliary — conciliar
  • conclusory — of, relating to, or involving an end or conclusion
  • concretely — constituting an actual thing or instance; real: a concrete proof of his sincerity.
  • condensery — a factory where condensed milk is produced
  • condylarth — any of the primitive ungulate mammals of the extinct order Condylarthra, from the Paleocene and Eocene epochs, having a slender body, low-crowned teeth, and five-toed feet, each toe ending in a small hoof.
  • conformity — If something happens in conformity with something such as a law or someone's wishes, it happens as the law says it should, or as the person wants it to.
  • congruency — congruence.
  • consectary — a consequence or conclusion
  • consistory — the court of a diocese (other than Canterbury) administering ecclesiastical law
  • conspiracy — Conspiracy is the secret planning by a group of people to do something illegal.
  • consultory — consultative
  • contrarily — in a perverse or obstinate manner
  • contritely — caused by or showing sincere remorse.
  • conversely — You say conversely to indicate that the situation you are about to describe is the opposite or reverse of the one you have just described.
  • copartnery — copartnership
  • corn dolly — a decorative figure made by plaiting straw
  • corn poppy — a poppy, Papaver rhoeas, that has bright red flowers and grows in cornfields. Since World War I it has been the symbol of fallen soldiers
  • corn syrup — syrup prepared from maize
  • cornbrandy — any of various alcoholic spirits made from grain, esp whisky
  • corpulency — Alternative form of corpulence.
  • corybantic — frenzied; agitated; unrestrained.
  • corydaline — an alkaloid, C22H27NO4, that is found in the roots of certain plants of the genus Corydalis
  • coryneform — resembling a corynebacterium
  • coryphodon — a primitive hoofed mammal of the extinct genus Coryphodon, of the early Eocene Epoch, having a long, thickset body, short legs, and five-toed feet, each toe ending in a small hoof.
  • countercry — a cry responding to another cry
  • counterspy — a spy working against or investigating enemy espionage
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