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11-letter words containing a, c, o, r, u

  • auto racing — the sport of racing automobiles in which drivers compete against each other on a course designed for racing or on closed public roads.
  • auto-erotic — producing sexual excitement or pleasure without association with another person or external stimulation.
  • autochanger — a device in a record player or CD player that enables a small stack of records or CDs to be dropped automatically onto the turntable or player tray one at a time and played separately
  • autocorrect — a function that attempts to correct errors made by the user when entering text into an electronic device
  • autocracies — Plural form of autocracy.
  • autographic — of, for, or like an autograph or autographs
  • automorphic — shaped and designed after oneself
  • autotrophic — (of organisms such as green plants) capable of manufacturing complex organic nutritive compounds from simple inorganic sources such as carbon dioxide, water, and nitrates, using energy from the sun
  • auxochromic — any radical or group of atoms that intensifies the color of a substance.
  • auxotrophic — designating or of a mutant organism requiring more nutritional substances than its prototrophic parent because it has lost the ability to make a certain enzyme
  • bacciferous — bearing berries
  • baccivorous — feeding on berries
  • backcountry — an area far from cities and towns that is thinly populated and largely undeveloped; hinterland
  • backgrounds — Plural form of background.
  • baconburger — a hamburger topped with strips of cooked bacon.
  • baculovirus — any of a family of viruses that attack insects and other arthropods, used as biological pesticides
  • bannockburn — a village in central Scotland, south of Stirling: nearby is the site of a victory (1314) of the Scots, led by Robert the Bruce, over the English. Pop: 7396 (2001)
  • barracoutas — Plural form of barracouta.
  • beancounter — Alternative spelling of bean counter.
  • bifurcation — the act or fact of bifurcating
  • bimolecular — (of a chemical complex, collision, etc) having or involving two molecules
  • binocularly — relating to the use of two eyes at once
  • black humor — a form of humor that regards human suffering as absurd rather than pitiable, or that considers human existence as ironic and pointless but somehow comic.
  • blue collar — of or relating to wage-earning workers who wear work clothes or other specialized clothing on the job, as mechanics, longshoremen, and miners. Compare white-collar.
  • blue-collar — Blue-collar workers work in industry, doing physical work, rather than in offices.
  • bournebasic — A BASIC interpreter. comp.sources.misc archives volume 1.
  • brachiosaur — any of a genus (Brachiosaurus) of huge Jurassic sauropods having longer forelegs than hind legs and nostrils high on the forehead
  • brachyurous — shorttailed, as a crab (opposed to macrurous).
  • bromouracil — a brominated derivative of uracil with antimetabolite properties
  • brown sauce — a sauce made from cooked fat and flour
  • brunch coat — a knee-length housecoat.
  • buccinatory — relating to a trumpeter or trumpet playing
  • butyraceous — of, containing, or resembling butter
  • cabin court — Older Use. a roadside motel having cabins.
  • cafe brulot — black coffee flavored with sugar, lemon and orange rinds, cloves, cinnamon, and brandy, ignited and allowed to flame briefly.
  • cafetoriums — Plural form of cafetorium.
  • calciferous — forming or producing salts of calcium, esp calcium carbonate
  • calcigerous — containing lime or other salts
  • calculators — Plural form of calculator.
  • calculatory — the act or process of calculating; computation.
  • californium — a metallic transuranic element artificially produced from curium. Symbol: Cf; atomic no: 98; half-life of most stable isotope, 251Cf: 800 years (approx.)
  • call around — If you call around, you phone several people, usually when you are trying to organize something or to find some information.
  • calochortus — any plant of the genus Calochortus, of the lily family, as the mariposa lily and the sego lily.
  • calumniator — to make false and malicious statements about; slander.
  • campgrounds — Plural form of campground.
  • cancerously — In a cancerous manner; like a cancer; malignant; spreading.
  • canopic urn — an urn used in ancient Egypt to hold and preserve the internal organs of the mummified dead
  • capricornus — a faint zodiacal constellation in the S hemisphere, lying between Sagittarius and Aquarius
  • car journey — a trip or voyage made by automobile
  • carborundum — any of various abrasive materials, esp one consisting of silicon carbide
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