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