10-letter words containing n, y, o, r
- countryish — similar to that which is typical of country music
- countryman — Your countrymen are people from your own country.
- countrymen — a native or inhabitant of one's own country.
- courantyne — a river in N South America, rising in S Guyana and flowing north to the Atlantic, forming the boundary between Guyana and Surinam. Length: 765 km (475 miles)
- coweringly — in a cowering manner
- craniology — the branch of science concerned with the shape and size of the human skull, esp with reference to variations between different races
- craniotomy — any surgical incision into the skull, esp to expose the brain for neurosurgery
- crazy bone — funny bone
- cryoconite — a dark powder found at the bottom of glacier holes, formerly thought to be cosmic in origin but now widely regarded to be terrestrial
- cryogenics — Cryogenics is a branch of physics that studies what happens to things at extremely low temperatures.
- cryogenist — of or relating to the production or use of very low temperatures: cryogenic storage.
- cryptopine — a poisonous alkaloid, C21H23NO5, found in opium
- cryptozoon — an extinct genus of algae from Precambrian and Cambrian times, forming irregularly hemispherical fossil colonies composed of layers of limy precipitate.
- cunctatory — prone to delaying
- cyanometer — an instrument used for measuring the blueness of the sky
- cyclosarin — Cyclohexyl methylphosphonofluoridate, an extremely toxic substance used as a chemical weapon.
- cyclotrons — Plural form of cyclotron.
- cylindroid — a cylinder with an elliptical cross section
- cyprinoids — Plural form of cyprinoid.
- dairywoman — a woman who owns, manages, or works in a dairy.
- dairywomen — Plural form of dairywoman.
- dandy roll — a light roller used in the manufacture of certain papers to produce watermarks
- dark money — money donated to politically active nonprofit organizations or anonymous corporate entities, which spend this money to influence political campaigns or other special interests but are not required to reveal their donors.
- debonairly — In a debonair manner.
- decryption — to decode or decipher.
- dendrology — the branch of botany that is concerned with the natural history of trees and shrubs
- destroying — Present participle of destroy.
- dictionary — (as modifier)
- dihydrogen — (chemistry) The divalent radical formed from two separate hydrogen atoms or ions.
- disharmony — lack of harmony; discord.
- divinatory — the practice of attempting to foretell future events or discover hidden knowledge by occult or supernatural means.
- donkeywork — Informal. tedious, repetitious work; drudgery.
- donn-byrne — Brian Oswald ("Donn Byrne") 1889–1928, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- donnybrook — an inordinately wild fight or contentious dispute; brawl; free-for-all.
- door money — admission fee to a place of entertainment or recreation.
- downwardly — Also, downwards. from a higher to a lower place or condition.
- droolingly — In a drooling manner or fashion.
- droopingly — In a drooping manner.
- drying oil — any of a group of oily, organic liquids occurring naturally, as linseed, soybean, or dehydrated castor oil, or synthesized, that when applied as a thin coating absorb atmospheric oxygen, forming a tough, elastic layer.
- drying-out — the process of detoxifying an alcoholic patient: Drying-out takes time.
- dyscontrol — The inability to control one's behavior.
- dystrophin — a protein, the absence of which is believed to cause muscular dystrophy
- econometry — Econometrics.
- effrontery — shameless or impudent boldness; barefaced audacity: She had the effrontery to ask for two free samples.
- emblazonry — Something emblazoned; a heraldic pattern.
- embryogeny — the formation and development of an embryo
- embryonate — relating to, or having, an embryo
- emendatory — (archaic) Pertaining to emendation; corrective.
- encryption — (cryptography) The process of obscuring information to make it unreadable without special knowledge, key files, and/or passwords. May also apply to electronic signal, hard drive, message, document...
- endothermy — (biology) A form of thermoregulation in which heat is generated by the organism's metabolism.