10-letter words containing o, n, e, a, c
- pratincole — any of several limicoline birds of the genus Glareola, of the Eastern Hemisphere, having a short bill, long, narrow, pointed wings, and a forked tail.
- precaution — a measure taken in advance to avert possible evil or to secure good results.
- precontact — prior contact
- proclinate — (of a part) directed or inclined forward.
- procurance — the act of bringing about or getting something; agency; procurement.
- pronuclear — of or relating to a pronucleus.
- protectant — a substance, as a chemical spray, that provides protection, as against insects, frost, rust, etc.; protective agent.
- provenance — place or source of origin: The provenance of the ancient manuscript has never been determined.
- provencale — (sometimes lowercase) cooked, usually in olive oil, with garlic, tomatoes, onions, and herbs.
- pyrenocarp — Mycology. a perithecium.
- quadricone — a quadric surface swept out by a straight line that passes through a fixed point such that no straight line can intersect it at more than two points
- racemation — a bunch, collection, or group
- rackabones — 'a rack of bones', a metaphor for a person or animal that is very thin or emaciated
- raconteurs — Plural form of raconteur.
- raconteuse — a woman who is skilled in relating stories and anecdotes interestingly.
- radiogenic — Physics. produced by radioactive decay: radiogenic lead; radiogenic heat.
- re-contact — the act or state of touching; a touching or meeting, as of two things or people.
- re-enactor — a person who re-enacts something
- reactional — a reverse movement or tendency; an action in a reverse direction or manner.
- reannounce — to make known publicly or officially; proclaim; give notice of: to announce a special sale.
- recitation — an act of reciting.
- reckonable — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
- recontract — an agreement between two or more parties for the doing or not doing of something specified.
- recreation — the act of creating anew.
- recusation — the act of recusing a judge
- refraction — Physics. the change of direction of a ray of light, sound, heat, or the like, in passing obliquely from one medium into another in which its wave velocity is different.
- relocation — to move (a building, company, etc.) to a different location: plans to relocate the firm to Houston.
- reprobance — reprobation.
- retraction — the act of retracting or the state of being retracted.
- revocation — the act of revoking; annulment.
- rhinotheca — the covering of the upper part of the beak in birds
- rock snake — any large Australasian python of the genus Liasis
- roman pace — an ancient Roman unit of measurement, equal to 5 Roman feet or about 58 U.S. inches (147 cm).
- ropedancer — a person who walks across or performs acrobatics upon a rope stretched at some height above the floor or ground.
- sacramento — a state in the W United States, on the Pacific coast. 158,693 sq. mi. (411,015 sq. km). Capital: Sacramento. Abbreviation: CA (for use with zip code), Cal., Calif.
- sanctioned — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
- saprogenic — producing putrefaction or decay, as certain bacteria.
- sarcodines — belonging or pertaining to the protist phylum Sarcodina, comprising protozoa that move and capture food by forming pseudopodia.
- sarcopenia — reduction in muscle tissue as a result of ageing
- saxicoline — living or growing among rocks.
- scale down — a succession or progression of steps or degrees; graduated series: the scale of taxation; the social scale.
- scaloppine — scallops, especially of veal, flattened by pounding and usually dredged in flour or breadcrumbs and sautéed quickly: scaloppine alla Marsala.
- scherzando — (a musical direction) playful; sportive.
- schongauer — Martin [mahr-tn;; German mahr-teen] /ˈmɑr tn;; German ˈmɑr tin/ (Show IPA), c1430–91, German engraver and painter.
- scorpaenid — belonging or pertaining to the Scorpaenidae, a family of marine fishes with spiny fins, including the rockfishes, scorpionfishes, and lionfishes.
- scorzonera — a plant of the modern genus Scorzonera, esp S. Hispanica or black salsify, cultivated in Europe for its root which is used as a vegetable
- sea anchor — any of various devices, as a drogue, that have great resistance to being pulled through the water and are dropped forward of a vessel at the end of a cable to hold the bow into the wind or sea during a storm.
- second man — a person who assists the driver in crewing a locomotive
- secondhand — not directly known or experienced; obtained from others or from books: Most of our knowledge is secondhand.
- see action — to participate in military combat