10-letter words containing r, e, n, t, a
- 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.
- 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.
- craftiness — skillful in underhand or evil schemes; cunning; deceitful; sly.
- creatinine — an anhydride of creatine that is abundant in muscle and excreted in the urine
- creational — Of, or pertaining to creation.
- credential — something that entitles a person to confidence, authority, etc
- cremations — Plural form of cremation.
- crenelated — In a castle, a crenelated wall has gaps in the top or openings through which to fire at attackers.
- crenellate — to supply with battlements
- crenulated — minutely crenate, as the margin of certain leaves.
- cresta run — high-speed tobogganing down a steep narrow passage
- crude tank — A crude tank is a large vessel for crude oil.
- crustacean — A crustacean is an animal with a hard shell and several pairs of legs, which usually lives in water. Crabs, lobsters, and shrimps are crustaceans.
- ct scanner — computerized tomography scanner: an X-ray machine that can produce stereographic images
- ctenophora — the phylum comprising the comb jellies.
- curtmantle — ("Henry the Saint") 973–1024, king of Germany 1002–24 and emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1014–24.
- cyanometer — an instrument used for measuring the blueness of the sky
- cytarabine — a toxic synthetic nucleoside, C 9 H 13 N 3 O 5 , used as an immunosuppressive and cytotoxic agent in the treatment of certain leukemias.
- dantrolene — a toxic orange powder, C 14 H 10 N 4 O 5 , used to control muscle spasms, as in the treatment of local trauma, multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, or other neurological disorders.
- data entry — Data entry is the activity of putting data into a computer, for example, by using a keyboard.
- datacenter — a facility equipped with or connected to one or more computers, used for processing or transmitting data.
- datacentre — Alternative spelling of data centre.
- davenports — Plural form of davenport.
- day return — A day return is a train or bus ticket which allows you to go somewhere and come back on the same day for a lower price than an ordinary return ticket.
- deaeration — the act of extracting a gas from a liquid
- deafferent — Detached from the nervous system.
- declarants — Plural form of declarant.
- declinator — a piece of apparatus that establishes the measure of a plane's deviation from the prime vertical or the meridian
- decolorant — able to decolour or bleach
- decontract — (ambitransitive) To expand from a contracted state.
- decorating — the painting or wallpapering of a room, house, etc
- decoration — The decoration of a room is its furniture, wallpaper, and ornaments.
- decreation — Destruction.
- deforciant — a person who wrongfully withholds something from someone by force
- defragment — to reorganize files on (a disk) so that the parts of each file are stored in contiguous sectors on the disk, thereby improving computer performance and maximizing disk space.
- defrayment — payment of some or all charges or expenses.
- degenerate — If you say that someone or something degenerates, you mean that they become worse in some way, for example weaker, lower in quality, or more dangerous.
- delineator — a tailor's pattern, adjustable for different sizes
- deliration — delirium; madness
- delsartian — of, relating to, or characteristic of François Delsarte or the Delsarte method.
- delta iron — an allotrope of iron that exists between 1400°C and the melting point of iron and has the same structure as alpha iron
- delustrant — an agent which removes lustre from something
- demon star — Algol.
- den father — (in the Boy Scouts) a man who serves as an adult leader or supervisor of a cub scout den.
- denaturant — to deprive (something) of its natural character, properties, etc.