10-letter words containing o, n, e, i, r
- borderline — The borderline between two different or opposite things is the division between them.
- boringness — the quality of being boring
- bouldering — rock climbing on large boulders or small outcrops either as practice or as a sport in its own right
- boundaries — something that indicates bounds or limits; a limiting or bounding line.
- bounderish — having the qualities of a bounder
- bournonite — a sulfide of lead, antimony, and copper, PbCuSbS 3 , occurring in gray to black crystals or granular masses.
- bowldering — pavement made with small boulders.
- brainpower — Brainpower is intelligence or the ability to think.
- break into — If someone breaks into a building, they get into it by force.
- breakpoint — an instruction inserted by a debug program causing a return to the debug program
- bridgetown — the capital of Barbados, a port on the SW coast. Pop: 144 000 (2005 est)
- bring home — introduce to parents
- bring over — to cause (a person) to change allegiances
- broken ice — sea ice that covers from 50 to 80 percent of the surface of water in any particular area.
- bronchiole — any of the smallest bronchial tubes, usually ending in alveoli
- broodiness — moody; gloomy.
- brown rice — unpolished rice, in which the grains retain the outer yellowish-brown layer (bran)
- brownfield — Brownfield land is land in a town or city where houses or factories have been built in the past, but which is not being used at the present time.
- buitenzorg — former Dutch name of Bogor.
- bunker oil — Nautical. oil taken on board a tanker as fuel, as distinguished from the oil carried as cargo.
- burgeoning — rapidly developing or growing; flourishing
- cameration — vaulting
- cancionero — a songbook
- carabinero — a Chilean police officer
- carbonised — Alternative spelling of carbonized.
- carbonized — Simple past tense and past participle of carbonize.
- carbonizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of carbonize.
- carcinogen — A carcinogen is a substance which can cause cancer.
- cariogenic — (of a substance) producing caries, esp in the teeth
- carnivores — an animal that eats flesh.
- carotenoid — any of a group of red or yellow pigments, including carotenes, found in plants and certain animal tissues
- cartonnier — an ornamental box for papers, usually for placing on a desk.
- cautioners — Plural form of cautioner.
- censorious — If you describe someone as censorious, you do not like the way they strongly disapprove of and criticize someone else's behaviour.
- censorship — Censorship is the censoring of books, plays, films, or reports, especially by government officials, because they are considered immoral or secret in some way.
- centration — The tendency to focus on one aspect of a situation and neglect others.
- centrioles — Plural form of centriole.
- centroidal — of or relating to a centroid
- centronics — (company, hardware, printer) A company in Hudson N.H., USA, best known for designing the parallel interface for printers with the same name, found on many microcomputers.
- centurions — Plural form of centurion.
- ceredigion — a county of W Wales, on Cardigan Bay: created in 1996 from part of Dyfed; corresponds to the former Cardiganshire (abolished 1974): mainly agricultural, with the Cambrian Mountains in the E and N. Administrative centre: Aberaeron. Pop: 77 200 (2003 est). Area: 1793 sq km (692 sq miles)
- ceremonial — Something that is ceremonial relates to a ceremony or is used in a ceremony.
- ceremonies — Plural form of ceremony.
- ceruminous — earwax.
- cessionary — a person to whom something is transferred; assignee; grantee
- chairborne — having an administrative or desk job rather than a more active one
- chairwomen — Plural form of chairwoman.
- chaperonin — A protein that aids the assembly and folding of other protein molecules in living cells.
- cheffonier — A tall, elegant chest of drawers, often with a mirror attached.
- cherubicon — the hymn sung during the Great Entrance by the choir, which represents the cherubim.