10-letter words containing s, i, n, o, r
- ascription — the act of ascribing
- asgeirsson — Asgeir [ahs-gair] /ˈɑs gɛər/ (Show IPA), 1894–1972, Icelandic statesman: president 1952–68.
- asia minor — large peninsula in W Asia, between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean, including Asiatic Turkey west of an undefined line from the Gulf of Iskenderun to the Black Sea
- asperation — The act of asperating; a making or becoming rough.
- aspersions — disparaging or malicious remarks; slanderous accusations
- aspiration — Someone's aspirations are their desire to achieve things.
- assertions — Plural form of assertion.
- astriction — to bind fast; constrain.
- astrionics — the science dealing with the application of electronics to astronautics.
- astronomic — of, relating to, or connected with astronomy.
- ausforming — a treatment to strengthen hard steels, prior to quenching, in which the specimen is plastically deformed while it is in the austenite temperature range
- aversation — (obsolete) A turning from with dislike; aversion.
- bandoliers — Plural form of bandolier.
- baragnosis — loss of the ability to estimate or perceive the weight of an object.
- bargainous — (informal) cheap (characteristic of a bargain).
- barognosis — the ability to judge weight
- bergsonism — the philosophy of Henri Bergson, which emphasizes duration as the basic element of experience and asserts the existence of a life-giving force that permeates the entire natural order
- berlusconi — Silvio (ˈsilvjo). born 1936, Italian politician and media tycoon: prime minister of Italy (1994–95, 2001–06, 2008–11); convicted of tax fraud and expelled from the Italian Senate in 2013
- binoculars — Binoculars consist of two small telescopes joined together side by side, which you look through in order to look at things that are a long way away.
- birthstone — a precious or semiprecious stone associated with a month or sign of the zodiac and thought to bring luck if worn by a person born in that month or under that sign
- blindstory — a windowless story
- boisbriand — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal.
- bolstering — a long, often cylindrical, cushion or pillow for a bed, sofa, etc.
- boringness — the quality of being boring
- borrowings — a company's liabilities or indebtedness
- bosun bird — tropic bird.
- boundaries — something that indicates bounds or limits; a limiting or bounding line.
- bounderish — having the qualities of a bounder
- bourbonism — support for the rule of the Bourbons, the European royal line that ruled in France, Spain, and Naples and Sicily at various times in the late 16th to early 20th centuries
- box spring — A box spring is a frame containing rows of coiled springs that is used to provide support for a mattress. You can also use box springs to refer to the springs themselves.
- brainstorm — If you have a brainstorm, you suddenly become unable to think clearly.
- bronchitis — Bronchitis is an illness like a very bad cough, in which your bronchial tubes become sore and infected.
- broodiness — moody; gloomy.
- brownshirt — Nazi stormtrooper
- burst into — If you burst into tears, laughter, or song, you suddenly begin to cry, laugh, or sing.
- caparisons — Plural form of caparison.
- capsorubin — (organic compound) A di-hydroxy, keto carotenoid, which, together with capsanthin, constitutes the red pigment of paprika.
- carbanions — Plural form of carbanion.
- carbonised — Alternative spelling of carbonized.
- carbonizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of carbonize.
- carcinoids — Plural form of carcinoid.
- carcinomas — Plural form of carcinoma.
- carnations — Plural form of carnation.
- carnivores — an animal that eats flesh.
- cartoonish — like a cartoon, esp in being one-dimensional, brightly coloured, or exaggerated
- cartoonist — A cartoonist is a person whose job is to draw cartoons for newspapers and magazines.
- castration — to remove the testes of; emasculate; geld.
- cautioners — Plural form of cautioner.
- cavortings — sexual frolics
- censorious — If you describe someone as censorious, you do not like the way they strongly disapprove of and criticize someone else's behaviour.