10-letter words containing r, u, n, o, s, e
- outnumbers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outnumber.
- outswinger — a ball that when bowled veers from leg side to off side.
- overbounds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overbound.
- overinsure — to insure in excess of actual value
- overstrung — overly tense or sensitive; strained; on edge: Their nerves were badly overstrung.
- percussion — the striking of one body against another with some sharpness; impact; blow.
- perigynous — situated around the pistil on the edge of a cuplike receptacle, as stamens or petals.
- pernicious — causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful: pernicious teachings; a pernicious lie.
- persuasion — the act of persuading or seeking to persuade.
- porousness — full of pores.
- portentous — of the nature of a portent; momentous.
- preclusion — to prevent the presence, existence, or occurrence of; make impossible: The insufficiency of the evidence precludes a conviction.
- preconsume — to consume in advance
- pronucleus — either of the gametic nuclei that unite in fertilization to form the nucleus of the zygote.
- proscenium — Also called proscenium arch. the arch that separates a stage from the auditorium. Abbreviation: pros.
- prosternum — the ventral sclerite of the prothorax of an insect.
- proteinous — Biochemistry. any of numerous, highly varied organic molecules constituting a large portion of the mass of every life form and necessary in the diet of all animals and other nonphotosynthesizing organisms, composed of 20 or more amino acids linked in a genetically controlled linear sequence into one or more long polypeptide chains, the final shape and other properties of each protein being determined by the side chains of the amino acids and their chemical attachments: proteins include such specialized forms as collagen for supportive tissue, hemoglobin for transport, antibodies for immune defense, and enzymes for metabolism.
- pyrogenous — pyrogenic (def 2).
- quernstone — Either of a pair of stones used for grinding material by hand.
- questioner — a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.
- quinestrol — a synthetic estrogen, C 2 5 H 3 2 O 2 , used in oral contraceptives.
- raconteurs — Plural form of raconteur.
- raconteuse — a woman who is skilled in relating stories and anecdotes interestingly.
- raisonneur — a character in a play, novel, or the like who voices the central theme, philosophy, or point of view of the work.
- ravenously — extremely hungry; famished; voracious: feeling ravenous after a hard day's work.
- reconquest — the act or state of conquering or the state of being conquered; vanquishment.
- recusation — the act of recusing a judge
- rediscount — to discount again.
- rendezvous — an agreement between two or more persons to meet at a certain time and place.
- requestion — a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.
- resolution — a formal expression of opinion or intention made, usually after voting, by a formal organization, a legislature, a club, or other group. Compare concurrent resolution, joint resolution.
- resounding — making an echoing sound: a resounding thud.
- resourcing — the provision of resources
- resumption — the act of resuming; a reassumption, as of something previously granted.
- reunionist — a person who advocates the reunion of the Anglican Church with the Roman Catholic Church.
- robustness — strong and healthy; hardy; vigorous: a robust young man; a robust faith; a robust mind.
- romanesque — noting or pertaining to the style of architecture prevailing in western or southern Europe from the 9th through the 12th centuries, characterized by heavy masonry construction with narrow openings, features such as the round arch, the groin vault, and the barrel vault, and the introduction or development of the vaulting rib, the vaulting shaft, and central and western towers for churches.
- roundheels — a prostitute.
- roundhouse — a building for the servicing and repair of locomotives, built around a turntable in the form of some part of a circle.
- routinised — to develop into a regular procedure.
- rubiginose — rust-coloured or rusty
- rune-stone — a stone bearing one or more runic inscriptions.
- ruthenious — containing bivalent ruthenium.
- sandgrouse — any of several birds of the family Pteroclididae inhabiting sandy areas of the Old World, resembling both pigeons and shorebirds and having precocial young.
- schongauer — Martin [mahr-tn;; German mahr-teen] /ˈmɑr tn;; German ˈmɑr tin/ (Show IPA), c1430–91, German engraver and painter.
- screen out — eliminate
- scroungers — to borrow (a small amount or item) with no intention of repaying or returning it: to scrounge a cigarette.
- scruncheon — (in Newfoundland) a small crisp piece of fried pork fat
- 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)
- second-run — designating or of: