10-letter words containing r, u, n, o
- court hand — a style of handwriting formerly used in English law courts
- courtesans — Plural form of courtesan.
- covermount — A covermount is a small gift attached to the front cover of a magazine.
- cowpuncher — cowboy
- croton bug — a small, winged cockroach (Blattella germanica); German cockroach
- croupiness — the condition of being afflicted with croup
- crown rust — a disease of oats and other grasses, characterized by the formation, on the leaves, of orange or black spores, caused by a rust fungus, Puccinia coronata.
- cruciation — (obsolete) torture; torment.
- crush zone — The crush zone is the part of a vehicle's bodywork that is designed to absorb the energy in a crash, reducing the amount that is felt by passengers inside the vehicle.
- crustation — the action of forming a crust
- culbertson — Ely (ˈiːlaɪ). 1891–1955, US authority on contract bridge
- cunctatory — prone to delaying
- cuneiforms — Plural form of cuneiform.
- curbstones — Plural form of curbstone.
- curmudgeon — If you call someone a curmudgeon, you do not like them because they are mean or bad-tempered.
- currawongs — Plural form of currawong.
- deerhounds — Plural form of deerhound.
- degenerous — (of a person) inferior to one's ancestors
- demeanours — Plural form of demeanour.
- dendrobium — a genus of tropical orchid, predominantly growing from trees or occasionally from rocks
- denouncers — Plural form of denouncer.
- deodourant — Rare spelling of deodorant.
- depuration — The action or process of freeing something of impurities.
- devourment — the act of devouring
- dicoumarin — any compound formed with two bonded coumarin molecules
- dig around — If you dig around in a place or container, you search for something in every part of it.
- dinosauric — Of or pertaining to dinosaurs.
- discounter — a person who discounts.
- discursion — an instance of discursive writing, speech, etc.; a wandering or logically unconnected statement.
- disjunctor — a small body found in the spores of some fungi
- disruption — forcible separation or division into parts.
- documenter — a written or printed paper furnishing information or evidence, as a passport, deed, bill of sale, or bill of lading; a legal or official paper.
- double run — a set of four cards consisting of a three-card run plus a fourth card of the same denomination as one of the others, as 2, 3, 4, 4, worth eight points.
- down quark — a type of quark with a mass of c. 0.005 to 0.015 GeV/c2, a negative charge that is 1⁄3 the charge of an electron, zero charm, and zero strangeness
- down under — Australia or New Zealand.
- downbursts — Plural form of downburst.
- downcurved — curved downward at the edges or end: his downcurved mouth conveyed his disappointment; downcurved beak.
- downturned — Turned downwards.
- dracontium — (pharmacy, obsolete) The roots and rhizomes of skunk cabbage, Symplocarpus foetidus.
- drainspout — downspout.
- drug baron — the head of an organization that deals in illegal drugs
- drunkathon — a session in which excessive quantities of alcohol are consumed
- drying-out — the process of detoxifying an alcoholic patient: Drying-out takes time.
- dumfounder — To dumbfound; to confound.
- durational — the length of time something continues or exists (often used with the).
- durnovaria — the Latin name for a town in S England, administrative centre of Dorset: associated with Thomas Hardy, esp as the Casterbridge of his novels. Pop: 16 171 (2001)
- durovernum — the Latin name for a city in SE England, in E Kent: starting point for St Augustine's mission to England (597 ad); cathedral where St Thomas à Becket was martyred (1170); seat of the archbishop and primate of England; seat of the University of Kent (1965). Pop: 43 552 (2001)
- e-neutrino — electron-neutrino.
- earthbound — headed for the earth: an earthbound meteorite.
- eastbourne — a seaport in East Sussex, in SE England.