10-letter words containing u, r, a, n, i
- jubilarian — a person who celebrates or has celebrated a jubilee, as a nun observing 25 or more years of religious life.
- keratinous — composed of or resembling keratin; horny.
- kid around — behave jokingly or playfully
- kuropatkin — Aleksei Nikolaevich [uh-lyi-ksyey nyi-kuh-lah-yi-vyich] /ʌ lyɪˈksyeɪ nyɪ kʌˈlɑ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1848–1925, Russian general.
- lacquering — a protective coating consisting of a resin, cellulose ester, or both, dissolved in a volatile solvent, sometimes with pigment added.
- lacustrine — of or relating to a lake.
- lambrequin — a woven fabric covering for a helmet in medieval times to protect it from heat, rust, etc.
- languisher — One who languishes.
- laniferous — wool-bearing: sheep and other laniferous animals.
- laundering — Present participle of launder.
- laureation — The act of crowning with laurel; the act of conferring an academic degree, or honorary title.
- laurentian — of or relating to the St. Lawrence River.
- laurentius — Saint, Lawrence, Saint.
- laurinburg — a town in S North Carolina.
- lawrencium — a synthetic, radioactive, metallic element. Symbol: Lr; atomic number: 103.
- lenticular — of or relating to a lens.
- lie around — sb: lounge idly
- lubricants — Plural form of lubricant.
- luminaires — Plural form of luminaire.
- luminarias — Plural form of luminaria.
- luminaries — a celestial body, as the sun or moon.
- luminarism — the art and theory of the luminarists
- luminarist — a painter concerned with precision in using light and shade
- lustrating — Present participle of lustrate.
- lustration — to purify by a propitiatory offering or other ceremonial method.
- luxuriance — luxuriant growth or productiveness; rich abundance; lushness.
- luxuriancy — Obsolete form of luxuriance.
- malnourish — Lb transitive To feed insufficiently, to cause malnutrition.
- manchurian — a historic region in NE China: ancestral home of the Manchu. About 413,000 sq. mi. (1,070,000 sq. km).
- mandibular — pertaining to or of the nature of a mandible.
- manicuring — Present participle of manicure.
- manicurist — a person who gives manicures.
- manularity — /man"yoo-la"ri-tee/ ("manual" + "granularity") A notional measure of the manual labor required for some task, particularly one of the sort that automation is supposed to eliminate. "Composing English on paper has much higher manularity than using a text editor, especially in the revising stage." Hackers tend to consider manularity a symptom of primitive methods; in fact, a true hacker confronted with an apparent requirement to do a computing task by hand will inevitably seize the opportunity to build another tool (see toolsmith).
- manumitter — An emancipator from slavery, someone who manumits.
- manuscribe — (archaic) To write by hand.
- manuscript — the original text of an author's work, handwritten or now usually typed, that is submitted to a publisher.
- māori bunk — a raised sleeping platform
- mapinguari — Alternative form of mapinguary.
- mapinguary — A legendary red-furred ground-dwelling sloth-like creature said to live in the Amazon rainforests of Brazil and Bolivia.
- marinduque — an island of the Philippines, between Luzon and Mindora islands. 347 sq. mi. (899 sq. km).
- maringouin — a mosquito, especially a large swamp mosquito.
- marinus ii — died a.d. 946, pope 942–946.
- martinique — an island in the E West Indies; an overseas department of France. 425 sq. mi. (1100 sq. km). Capital: Fort-de-France.
- maturation — the act or process of maturating.
- maundering — A rambling or pointless discourse.
- mauretania — an ancient kingdom in NW Africa: it included the territory that is modern Morocco and part of Algeria.
- mauritania — an ancient kingdom in NW Africa: it included the territory that is modern Morocco and part of Algeria.
- medrinaque — A type of fabric from the Philippines, made from the abaca tree.
- melburnian — 2nd Viscount, William Lamb.
- microfauna — Biology. microscopic animals.