10-letter words containing r, o, s, a, n
- personably — of pleasing personal appearance; handsome or comely; attractive.
- personalia — the accoutrements, concerns, or intimations that are personal to one
- personally — through direct contact; in person; directly: I will thank him personally.
- personalty — personal estate or property.
- persuasion — the act of persuading or seeking to persuade.
- planospore — a zoospore.
- polarising — to cause polarization in.
- poriferans — an animal phylum comprising the sponges.
- port sudan — a seaport in the NE Sudan, on the Red Sea.
- presswoman — a female reporter
- prestation — a payment in money or in services.
- prison van — vehicle to transfer prisoners
- proseminar — a course conducted in the manner of a seminar for graduate students but often open to advanced undergraduates.
- proserpina — Persephone.
- proteanism — readily assuming different forms or characters; extremely variable.
- proteinase — any of a group of enzymes that are capable of hydrolyzing proteins.
- protestant — any Western Christian who is not an adherent of a Catholic, Anglican, or Eastern Church.
- protistans — any of various one-celled organisms, classified in the kingdom Protista, that are either free-living or aggregated into simple colonies and that have diverse reproductive and nutritional modes, including the protozoans, eukaryotic algae, and slime molds: some classification schemes also include the fungi and the more primitive bacteria and blue-green algae or may distribute the organisms between the kingdoms Plantae and Animalia according to dominant characteristics.
- pyranoside — a glycoside containing a pyran ring structure.
- rackabones — 'a rack of bones', a metaphor for a person or animal that is very thin or emaciated
- raconteurs — Plural form of raconteur.
- raconteuse — a woman who is skilled in relating stories and anecdotes interestingly.
- radiosonde — an instrument that is carried aloft by a balloon to send back information on atmospheric temperature, pressure, and humidity by means of a small radio transmitter.
- rainforest — a tropical forest, usually of tall, densely growing, broad-leaved evergreen trees in an area of high annual rainfall.
- raisonneur — a character in a play, novel, or the like who voices the central theme, philosophy, or point of view of the work.
- randomness — proceeding, made, or occurring without definite aim, reason, or pattern: the random selection of numbers.
- randomwise — in a random manner
- ranivorous — that eats frogs
- ransomable — capable of being ransomed
- ransomless — without ransom, not capable of being ransomed
- ransomware — malware planted illegally in a computer or mobile device that disables its operation or access to its data until the owner or operator pays to regain control or access.
- rascallion — a villain, a rascal
- raskolniki — a member of any of several sects founded by dissenters from the Russian Orthodox Church who opposed the liturgical reforms of Nikon in the 17th century.
- rat poison — substance toxic to rodents
- ravenously — extremely hungry; famished; voracious: feeling ravenous after a hard day's work.
- rawinsonde — a method of upper-atmosphere meteorological observation conducted by means of a radiosonde tracked by radar.
- rawsthorne — Alan. 1905–71, English composer, whose works include three symphonies, several concertos, and a set of Symphonic Studies (1939)
- reasonable — agreeable to reason or sound judgment; logical: a reasonable choice for chairman.
- reasonably — agreeable to reason or sound judgment; logical: a reasonable choice for chairman.
- reasonless — not having any reason or sense: an utterly reasonless display of anger.
- recusation — the act of recusing a judge
- red salmon — sockeye salmon.
- reinvasion — the act or an instance of entering (a country, territory, etc) by military force again; a second or subsequent invasion
- resonantly — resounding or echoing, as sounds: the resonant thundering of cannons being fired.
- resonating — to resound.
- resonation — to resound.
- revisional — the act or work of revising.
- richardson — Henry Handel (Henrietta Richardson Robertson) 1870–1946, Australian novelist.
- road sense — the ability to be a safe driver or pedestrian
- roberdsman — a robber