11-letter words containing a, c, e, s, n
- exceedances — Plural form of exceedance.
- excitations — Plural form of excitation.
- execrations — Plural form of execration.
- exonuclease — An enzyme that removes successive nucleotides from the end of a polynucleotide molecule.
- expectances — Plural form of expectance.
- expiscation — the act of fishing out or finding out by investigation
- exsiccation — The act of operation of drying; evaporation or expulsion of moisture.
- extractions — Plural form of extraction.
- extrinsical — (rare) Extrinsic.
- face-saving — something that saves one's prestige or dignity: Allow him the face-saver of resigning instead of being fired.
- facinerious — (in the works of Shakespeare) extremely wicked
- factualness — Factuality.
- fanaticised — Simple past tense and past participle of fanaticise.
- fancy dress — a costume for a ball, masquerade, etc., chosen to please the fancy, usually a costume characteristic of a particular period or place, class of persons, or historical or fictitious character.
- farinaceous — consisting or made of flour or meal, as food.
- fascinative — to attract and hold attentively by a unique power, personal charm, unusual nature, or some other special quality; enthrall: a vivacity that fascinated the audience.
- fiançailles — a betrothal, engagement
- fianchettos — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fianchetto.
- final cause — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
- flat screen — a type of thin, lightweight video display that uses liquid crystals or electroluminescence to reflect images.
- fluticasone — (organic compound) A synthetic corticosteroid whose furoate and propionate forms are used as topical anti-inflammatories.
- forecasting — Present participle of forecast.
- forinstance — a case or occurrence of anything: fresh instances of oppression.
- franchisees — Plural form of franchisee.
- franchisers — Plural form of franchiser.
- franticness — desperate or wild with excitement, passion, fear, pain, etc.; frenzied.
- free ascent — the upward traveling or path of a rocket carried by its own inertia after its engine has stopped operating.
- freelancers — Plural form of freelancer.
- french seam — a seam in which the raw edges of the cloth are completely covered by sewing them together, first on the right side, then on the wrong.
- gas furnace — a furnace using gas as a fuel.
- geodynamics — (used with a singular verb) the science dealing with dynamic processes or forces within the earth.
- gesticulant — making or tending to make gestures or gesticulations: a gesticulant speaker.
- ghost dance — a ritual dance intended to establish communion with the dead, especially such a dance as performed by various messianic western American Indian cults in the late 19th century.
- glabrescent — becoming glabrous.
- glaucescent — becoming glaucous; somewhat glaucous.
- glucokinase — an enzyme, found in all living systems, that serves to catalyze the phosphorylation of gluconic acid.
- glucosamine — an aminosugar occurring in many polysaccharides of vertebrate tissue and also as the major component of chitin.
- gracileness — The state or quality of being gracile.
- grand-scale — of large proportion, extent, magnitude, etc.: grand-scale efforts; a grand-scale approach.
- grandnieces — Plural form of grandniece.
- granduncles — Plural form of granduncle.
- graphicness — The quality of being graphic: grotesqueness or vividness.
- gynaecomast — a man who suffers from gynaecomastia
- hackishness — (jargon) The quality of being or involving a hack. This term is considered mildly silly. Synonym hackitude.
- haines city — a town in central Florida.
- half-second — 1/120 of a minute of time
- heteroscian — a name applied to the people who live in temperate zones, so given because in these areas shadows created by the sun at noon will fall in opposite directions
- hexastichon — hexastich.
- hinderances — Plural form of hinderance.
- hispanicize — to make Spanish or Latin American, as in character, custom, or style.