10-letter words containing r, e, c, o, n, t
- reelection — the selection of a person or persons for office by vote.
- reflection — the act of reflecting, as in casting back a light or heat, mirroring, or giving back or showing an image; the state of being reflected in this way.
- 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.
- rencounter — a hostile meeting; battle.
- 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
- richthofen — Baron Manfred von [mahn-freyt fuh n] /ˈmɑn freɪt fən/ (Show IPA), ("Red Baron"or"Red Knight") 1892–1918, German aviator.
- rocket gun — any weapon that uses a rocket as a projectile, as a rocket launcher or bazooka.
- rotten ice — ice pitted or honeycombed from melting.
- 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.
- screen out — eliminate
- screenshot — Also called screen capture. a copy or image of what is seen on a computer screen at a given time: Save the screenshot as a graphics file.
- scunthorpe — a town in E England, in North Lincolnshire unitary authority, Lincolnshire: developed rapidly after the discovery of local iron ore in the late 19th century; iron and steel industries have declined. Pop: 72 660 (2001)
- soricident — having shrewlike teeth
- sterno can — a small can of Sterno
- stockinger — a person who knits on a stocking frame
- stockowner — stockholder (def 1).
- stone crab — an edible crab, Menippe mercenaria, of rocky shores from the southern U.S. to Mexico and certain areas of the Caribbean, prized for the meat of its claws.
- storm cone — a canvas cone hoisted as a warning of high winds
- supertonic — the second tone of a diatonic scale, being the next above the tonic.
- surjection — onto function.
- sweet corn — any of several varieties of corn, especially Zea mays rugosa, the grain or kernels of which are sweet and suitable for eating.
- table corn — Chiefly Eastern U.S. sweet corn.
- tchernosem — chernozem.
- technocrat — a proponent, adherent, or supporter of technocracy.
- technofear — fear of using technological devices, such as computers; technophobia
- tenor clef — a sign locating middle C on the next to the top line of the staff.
- the corner — an area in central Australia, at the junction of the borders of Queensland and South Australia
- thermionic — an ion emitted by incandescent material.
- tick-borne — carried or transmitted by ticks: tick-borne disease.
- tone color — tone quality; timbre.
- toric lens — a lens used to correct astigmatism, having one of its surfaces shaped like part of a torus so that its focal lengths are different in different meridians
- torpescent — becoming torpid
- town clerk — a town official who keeps records and issues licenses.
- town crier — (formerly) a person employed by a town to make public announcements or proclamations, usually by shouting in the streets.
- trajection — to transport, transmit, or transpose.
- trance out — to go into a trancelike or ecstatic state, esp through the effects of drugs or music
- transcoder — a technology, such as a software package, used to transfer data from one format to another
- travancore — a former state in SW India: merged 1949 with Cochin to form a new state (Travancore and Cochin) reorganized 1956 to form the larger part of Kerala state.
- triaconter — (in ancient Greece) a Greek galley with thirty oars
- trichinose — to infest with parasitic worms (trichinae)
- trichogyne — a hairlike prolongation of a carpogonium, serving as a receptive organ for the spermatium.
- triniscope — an early television with three tubes projecting the three primary colours
- trisection — to divide into three parts, especially into three equal parts.
- trochanter — Anatomy. either of two knobs at the top of the femur, the greater on the outside and the lesser on the inside, serving for the attachment of muscles between the thigh and pelvis.
- tumorgenic — producing tumours
- twice-born — Hinduism. of or relating to members of the Indian castes of Brahmins, Kshatriyas, and Vaisyas, who undergo a spiritual rebirth and initiation in adolescence.
- tyrocidine — an antibiotic that is the main constituent of tyrothricin