10-letter words containing r, e, d, i, n
- necrotized — to undergo necrosis.
- negri body — any of the microscopic bodies found in the nerve cells of animals affected with rabies.
- neighbored — Simple past tense and past participle of neighbor.
- nephridial — Of or pertaining to a nephridium.
- nephridium — the excretory organ of many invertebrates, consisting of a tubule with one end opening into the body cavity and the other opening into a pore at the body surface.
- nerd pride — (body) The Nerd Pride movement, modeled on the Gay Pride movement, was started at MIT by Professors Gerald Sussman and Hal Abelson. Nerd pride paraphernalia includes baseball hats, buttons and - of course - pocket protectors. "My idea is to present an image to children that it is good to be intellectual, and not to care about the peer pressures to be anti-intellectual. I want every child to turn into a nerd - where that means someone who prefers studying and learning to competing for social dominance". -- Gerald Sussman, quoted by Katie Hafner, "New York Times", 1994-08-29.
- neurodynia — (pathology) nerve pain; neuralgia.
- neuropodia — Plural form of neuropodium.
- never mind — (in a human or other conscious being) the element, part, substance, or process that reasons, thinks, feels, wills, perceives, judges, etc.: the processes of the human mind.
- niger seed — the black seed of a tropical African composite plant, Guizotia abyssinica, yielding an oil used as food, in the manufacture of soap, etc.
- niggardize — to act or treat in a niggardly fashion
- niggerhead — (nautical, dated, now offensive) A bollard made from an old cannon.
- nightdream — A dream that is experienced at night, sometimes as distinguished from a daydream. (from 16th c.).
- nightdress — nightclothes.
- nightrider — one of a band of mounted men, especially in the southern U.S. during Reconstruction, who committed nocturnal acts of violence and intimidation against blacks and black sympathizers.
- niridazole — an anthelmintic substance, C 6 H 6 N 4 O 3 S, used in the treatment of schistosomiasis.
- nonadmirer — a person who does not admire or approve of something
- nondiverse — Not diverse.
- nondrinker — a person who abstains from alcoholic beverages.
- noninsured — Not insured.
- nonjoinder — omission to join, as of a person who should have been a party to an action.
- nonreading — Not reading.
- nonsteroid — A substance that is not a steroid.
- nonstriped — Not striped.
- normalised — normalisation
- normalized — to make normal.
- northfield — a town in SE Minnesota.
- nursemaids — Plural form of nursemaid.
- oil-harden — to quench (steel) in a bath of oil.
- ordainable — able to be ordained
- ordainment — to invest with ministerial or sacerdotal functions; confer holy orders upon.
- ordinances — Plural form of ordinance.
- ordinaries — Plural form of ordinary.
- ordinately — in an ordered manner
- ordinative — Tending to ordain; directing; giving orders.
- orientated — Having a specific orientation.
- originated — Simple past tense and past participle of originate.
- outredding — the act of redeeming land or goods
- over-index — (in a nonfiction book, monograph, etc.) a more or less detailed alphabetical listing of names, places, and topics along with the numbers of the pages on which they are mentioned or discussed, usually included in or constituting the back matter.
- overdesign — to prepare the preliminary sketch or the plans for (a work to be executed), especially to plan the form and structure of: to design a new bridge.
- overdosing — Present participle of overdose.
- overdriven — Driven too hard; exhausted.
- overridden — to prevail or have dominance over; have final authority or say over; overrule: to override one's advisers.
- overriding — taking precedence over all other considerations.
- palindrome — a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.
- palisander — Brazilian rosewood.
- pandermite — a white, marble-like mineral
- paradisean — of the genus Paradisaea (birds of paradise)
- parmenides — flourished c450 b.c, Greek Eleatic philosopher.
- pathfinder — a historical novel (1840) by James Fenimore Cooper.