10-letter words containing r, a, c, e, n
- contravene — To contravene a law or rule means to do something that is forbidden by the law or rule.
- conversant — If you are conversant with something, you are familiar with it and able to deal with it.
- conversate — to have a conversation; converse; talk.
- coordinate — If you coordinate an activity, you organize the various people and things involved in it.
- coparcener — a person who inherits an estate as coheir with others
- copartners — Plural form of copartner.
- copartnery — copartnership
- copernican — of or relating to Copernicus or his theories.
- coral fern — a scrambling fern of the genus Gleichenia, having repeatedly forked fronds
- coral vine — a Mexican climbing vine, Antigonon leptopus, of the buckwheat family, having arrow- or heart-shaped leaves and pink or white flowers.
- corallines — Plural form of coralline.
- cordwainer — a shoemaker or worker in cordovan leather
- corelation — a correlation
- corn bread — a baked or fried flat bread made with cornmeal and, variously, milk or water, flour, eggs, sugar, etc.
- corn crake — a short-billed Eurasian rail, Crex crex, frequenting grainfields.
- corn snake — a large, harmless rat snake, Elaphe guttata guttata, of the southeastern U.S., having yellow, tan, or gray scales with dark-red blotches: once common in cornfields but now an endangered species.
- cornaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Cornaceae, a family of temperate plants, mostly trees and shrubs, including dogwood, cornel, and spotted laurel
- corncrakes — Plural form of corncrake.
- cornerback — a defensive back
- cornflakes — a breakfast cereal made from toasted maize, eaten with milk, sugar, etc
- coromandel — calamander
- coronalled — a crown; coronet.
- coronaries — Plural form of coronary.
- coronatine — A polycyclic phytotoxin, produced by some forms of Pseudomonas, that can induce chlorosis.
- corrigenda — Plural form of corrigendum.
- corydaline — an alkaloid, C22H27NO4, that is found in the roots of certain plants of the genus Corydalis
- coterminal — having the same border or covering the same area.
- cotransfer — a simultaneous transfer of multiple genes
- counteract — To counteract something means to reduce its effect by doing something that produces an opposite effect.
- counterair — (military) Attacking the air force of an opposing power.
- counterman — a man who works on a lunch counter or behind the counter of a cafe
- counterwar — War waged in response to another war.
- 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)
- courtesans — Plural form of courtesan.
- covariance — a measure of the association between two random variables, equal to the expected value of the product of the deviations from the mean of the two variables, and estimated by the sum of products of deviations from the sample mean for associated values of the two variables, divided by the number of sample points. Written as Cov (X, Y)
- covenanter — a person upholding the National Covenant of 1638 or the Solemn League and Covenant of 1643 between Scotland and England to establish and defend Presbyterianism
- covenantor — a party who makes a promise and who is to perform the obligation expressed in a covenant
- coventrate — To devastate by heavy bombing.
- cover band — a band that makes or performs cover versions of songs
- cowardness — Synonym of cowardice.
- crabbiness — the state of being crabby
- cradleland — The region where something, especially a race of people, originated.
- cradlesong — a lullaby
- craftiness — skillful in underhand or evil schemes; cunning; deceitful; sly.
- cragginess — The state of being craggy.
- crandalled — Simple past tense and past participle of crandall.
- cranesbill — any of various plants of the genus Geranium, having pink or purple flowers and long slender beaked fruits: family Geraniaceae
- crankcases — Plural form of crankcase.
- cranked up — Machinery. any of several types of arms or levers for imparting rotary or oscillatory motion to a rotating shaft, one end of the crank being fixed to the shaft and the other end receiving reciprocating motion from a hand, connecting rod, etc.
- crankiness — ill-tempered; grouchy; cross: I'm always cranky when I don't get enough sleep.