10-letter words containing y, n
- repellency — to drive or force back (an assailant, invader, etc.).
- repentigny — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada: suburb of Montreal.
- repiningly — in a repining manner, discontentedly
- repugnancy — the state of being repugnant.
- rescrutiny — a searching examination or investigation; minute inquiry.
- resignedly — submissive or acquiescent.
- resiliency — the power or ability to return to the original form, position, etc., after being bent, compressed, or stretched; elasticity.
- resonantly — resounding or echoing, as sounds: the resonant thundering of cannons being fired.
- responsory — an anthem sung after a lection by a soloist and choir alternately.
- retardancy — any substance capable of reducing the speed of a given reaction.
- return key — the key on a keyboard which moves the cursor to the next line
- reverently — feeling, exhibiting, or characterized by reverence; deeply respectful: a reverent greeting.
- revilingly — in a reviling manner
- revolvency — the act or state of revolving
- rhinophyma — a red-coloured bump or bumps on the nose which form as a result of enlarged sebaceous glands and rosacea
- rhinoscopy — examination of the nasal passages, esp with a rhinoscope
- riddlingly — in a riddling or puzzling manner
- ring cycle — Ring of the Nibelung, The.
- rinky-dink — inconsequential, amateurish, or of generally inferior quality; small-time: a rinky-dink college; He plays with some rinky-dink team.
- rivetingly — in a riveting manner
- rock candy — sugar in large, hard, cohering crystals.
- rock-candy — sugar in large, hard, cohering crystals.
- romany rye — a man who is not a Gypsy but associates with the Gypsies, speaks their language, etc.
- rosy finch — any of several finches of the genus Leucosticte, of Asia and western North America, having dark brown plumage with a pinkish wash on the wings and rump.
- rowanberry — a mountain ash tree
- royal anne — a variety of sweet cherry having yellow fruit tinged with red.
- royal fern — a coarse fern, Osmunda regalis, having tall, upright fronds.
- royal mint — a British organization having the sole right to manufacture coins since the 16th century. In 1968 it moved from London to Llantrisant in Wales
- royal navy — the navy of the United Kingdom
- roystering — roister.
- ruminantly — in a ruminant manner
- rusty iron — (jargon, hardware) Synonym tired iron. It has been claimed that this is the inevitable fate of water MIPS.
- safety man — safety (def 6c).
- safety net — a large net rigged between a person, as a trapeze performer, and the ground as protection in a fall.
- safety pin — pin with covered point
- safety-pin — to secure or affix with a safety pin: to safety-pin a child's mittens to his coat sleeve.
- saint mary — Christian holy figure
- sainte foy — a SW suburb of Quebec, on the St Lawrence River. Pop: 72 547 (2001)
- saintsbury — George Edward Bateman [beyt-muh n] /ˈbeɪt mən/ (Show IPA), 1845–1933, English literary critic and historian.
- sally lunn — a slightly sweetened teacake served hot with butter.
- samana cay — a small, uninhabited island in the central Bahamas: now believed to be first land in the New World seen by Christopher Columbus 1492. 9 miles (14 km) long.
- sanctimony — pretended, affected, or hypocritical religious devotion, righteousness, etc.
- sand yacht — land yacht.
- sandpapery — of or suggesting the grating sound of sandpaper rubbing against wood or the rough texture of sandpaper.
- sandy city — a town in central Utah.
- sandy hook — a peninsula in E New Jersey, at the entrance to lower New York Bay. 6 miles (10 km) long.
- sanguinary — full of or characterized by bloodshed; bloody: a sanguinary struggle.
- sanguinely — cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident: a sanguine disposition; sanguine expectations.
- sanguinity — cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident: a sanguine disposition; sanguine expectations.
- sanitarily — of or relating to health or the conditions affecting health, especially with reference to cleanliness, precautions against disease, etc.