10-letter words containing o, n, e, a, d
- pentaploid — having a chromosome number that is five times the haploid number.
- pentapodic — (of a poetic line or verse) having five metrical feet
- person-day — a unit of measurement, especially in accountancy, based on an ideal amount of work done by one person in one working day.
- phenolated — containing phenol; carbolated.
- phone card — calling card (def 3).
- piano duet — a musical composition for two pianists playing two pianos or together at one piano.
- pirandello — Luigi [loo-ee-jee] /luˈi dʒi/ (Show IPA), 1867–1936, Italian dramatist, novelist, and poet: Nobel prize 1934.
- pond-apple — a tropical American, evergreen tree, Annona glabra, of the annona family, having yellowish-red flowers, grown as a grafting stock.
- ponderable — capable of being considered carefully or deeply.
- ponderance — weight or significance
- pontevedra — a port in NW Spain: takes its name from a 12-arched Roman bridge, the Pons Vetus. Pop: 77 993 (2003 est)
- ponytailed — having a ponytail
- pound cake — a rich, sweet cake made originally with approximately a pound each of butter, sugar, and flour.
- pronograde — walking with the body parallel to the ground
- pteranodon — a flying reptile of the extinct order Pterosauria, from the Cretaceous Period, having a wingspread of about 25 feet (8 meters).
- pyranoside — a glycoside containing a pyran ring structure.
- 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
- radiogenic — Physics. produced by radioactive decay: radiogenic lead; radiogenic heat.
- radiophone — a radiotelephone.
- radiosonde — an instrument that is carried aloft by a balloon to send back information on atmospheric temperature, pressure, and humidity by means of a small radio transmitter.
- rained off — cancelled or postponed on account of rain
- randomness — proceeding, made, or occurring without definite aim, reason, or pattern: the random selection of numbers.
- randomwise — in a random manner
- rawinsonde — a method of upper-atmosphere meteorological observation conducted by means of a radiosonde tracked by radar.
- re-adjourn — to suspend the meeting of (a club, legislature, committee, etc.) to a future time, another place, or indefinitely: to adjourn the court.
- read up on — If you read up on a subject, you read a lot about it so that you become informed about it.
- readoption — the adoption of something or someone again
- red salmon — sockeye salmon.
- redondilla — a Spanish verse form in which each stanza consists of four lines, each with eight syllables, and a rhyme scheme abba.
- reed organ — a musical keyboard instrument, as the harmonium or American organ, having small metal reeds through which air is forced to produce the sound.
- rejoneador — a bullfighter who rides horseback during a fight and spears the bull with lances
- rhodophane — the red colour found in the inner cones of the retina in animals
- rio grande — a city in NE Puerto Rico.
- road agent — (formerly) a highwayman, especially along stagecoach routes in the western U.S.
- road sense — the ability to be a safe driver or pedestrian
- roadrunner — either of two large terrestrial cuckoos of the genus Geococcyx of arid regions of the western U.S., Mexico, and Central America, especially G. californianus (greater roadrunner)
- roberdsman — a robber
- roman ride — a method of horseback riding in which a person stands astride a pair of horses.
- ropedancer — a person who walks across or performs acrobatics upon a rope stretched at some height above the floor or ground.
- round tape — (storage, jargon) Industry-standard 1/2-inch magnetic tape (7- or 9-track) on traditional circular reels. See macrotape, opposite: square tape.
- roundtable — a number of persons gathered together for conference, discussion of some subject, etc., and often seated at a round table.
- sanctioned — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
- sandgroper — a nickname for a Western Australian
- sandgrouse — any of several birds of the family Pteroclididae inhabiting sandy areas of the Old World, resembling both pigeons and shorebirds and having precocial young.
- sandlotter — a youngster who plays baseball in a sandlot.
- sandroller — a North American fresh-water fish, Percopsis transmontana, related to the troutperch but having a deeper, more compressed body.
- sanforized — (of a fabric) preshrunk using a patented process
- sans doute — without doubt; certainly.
- sarcodines — belonging or pertaining to the protist phylum Sarcodina, comprising protozoa that move and capture food by forming pseudopodia.
- scale down — a succession or progression of steps or degrees; graduated series: the scale of taxation; the social scale.