10-letter words containing y, e, a, r, o
- carryovers — Plural form of carryover.
- category 3 — (hardware) (Cat 3, or "voice grade") An American Standards Institute standard for UTP cables. Used, e.g., for 100BaseVG network cabling.
- category 5 — The term Category 5 refers to Ethernet cabling that allows data transfers up to 100 Megabits per second.
- category a — (of a prisoner) regarded as highly dangerous and therefore requiring constant observation and maximum security
- category d — (of a prisoner) regarded as sufficiently trustworthy to be kept under open prison conditions
- ceroferary — Candleholder (especially for a large, church candle).
- cerography — the art of engraving on a waxed plate on which a printing surface is created by electrotyping
- cessionary — a person to whom something is transferred; assignee; grantee
- charophyte — any green algae of the class Charophyceae (or group Charophyta), comprising the stoneworts.
- cheboksary — a port in W central Russia on the River Volga: capital of the Chuvash Republic. Pop: 446 000 (2005 est)
- chroma key — an electronic special-effects system for combining a desired background with live foreground action.
- chromatype — a procedure in photography that uses photographic paper that is made reactive to light by the use of a salt of chromium
- chrysocale — a copper alloy containing zinc and lead.
- chyloderma — (medicine) swelling of the scrotum resulting from chronic lymphatic obstruction.
- clapperboy — a boy who operates a clapper
- clearstory — clerestory
- cleromancy — a divination involving dice-throwing or lot-casting
- commandery — a manor under the charge of a commander of a religious military order of knights
- commentary — A commentary is a description of an event that is broadcast on radio or television while the event is taking place.
- consectary — a consequence or conclusion
- copartnery — copartnership
- copy paper — paper specially prepared for the writing of advertising copy, newspaper copy, etc., usually having guidelines to indicate margins and the number of spaces per line.
- copyreader — a person who edits and prepares newspaper copy for publication; subeditor
- coralberry — a small shrub, Symphoricarpos orbiculatus, that is native to North America and is cultivated for its berries
- corydaline — an alkaloid, C22H27NO4, that is found in the roots of certain plants of the genus Corydalis
- coryphaeus — (in ancient Greek drama) the leader of the chorus
- courantyne — a river in N South America, rising in S Guyana and flowing north to the Atlantic, forming the boundary between Guyana and Surinam. Length: 765 km (475 miles)
- crazy bone — funny bone
- cyanometer — an instrument used for measuring the blueness of the sky
- dairyhouse — A farm building operating as a dairy.
- dairywomen — Plural form of dairywoman.
- dark money — money donated to politically active nonprofit organizations or anonymous corporate entities, which spend this money to influence political campaigns or other special interests but are not required to reveal their donors.
- debonairly — In a debonair manner.
- dedicatory — of or as a dedication
- defamatory — Speech or writing that is defamatory is likely to damage someone's good reputation by saying something bad and untrue about them.
- dehydrator — a person or thing that dehydrates.
- delegatory — of or relating to the delegation or assignment of authority, power, or responsibility.
- demography — Demography is the study of the changes in numbers of births, deaths, marriages, and cases of disease in a community over a period of time.
- depilatory — Depilatory substances and processes remove unwanted hair from your body.
- deplorably — causing or being a subject for grief or regret; lamentable: the deplorable death of a friend.
- depositary — a person or group to whom something is entrusted for safety or preservation
- depuratory — Tending to depurate or cleanse; depurative.
- dermopathy — Disease of the skin.
- derogatory — If you make a derogatory remark or comment about someone or something, you express your low opinion of them.
- desolatory — tending to cause desolation
- detractory — (now rare) That detracts from something; disparaging, depreciatory.
- doomsayers — Plural form of doomsayer.
- doomsdayer — a doomsayer.
- dray horse — a draft horse used for pulling a dray.
- early wood — springwood.