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11-letter words containing a, c, t, o, n

  • cast anchor — to anchor a vessel
  • castellanos — Julio [hoo-lyaw] /ˈhu lyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1905–47, Mexican painter.
  • castigation — to criticize or reprimand severely.
  • castiglione — Count Baldassare (baldasˈsaːre). 1478–1529, Italian diplomat and writer, noted particularly for his dialogue on ideal courtly life, Il Libro del Cortegiano (The Courtier) (1528)
  • casting rod — a fishing rod, generally 4–8 feet (1.2–2.4 meters) long, for casting bait or lures with a reel mounted near the handle that enables the thumb or finger to control the line during a cast, including rods used for bait casting and spinning.
  • castor bean — the seed of this plant
  • castrations — Plural form of castration.
  • cat-and-dog — continuously or unceasingly vicious and destructive: cat-and-dog competition.
  • cataloguing — a list or record, as of items for sale or courses at a university, systematically arranged and often including descriptive material: a stamp catalog.
  • cataphonics — catacoustics
  • catch up on — to engage in more (work, sleep, etc.) so as to compensate for earlier neglect
  • catercorner — diagonal.
  • catonsville — a town in central Maryland, near Baltimore.
  • cattlewoman — A woman who raises or tends cattle.
  • cattlewomen — Plural form of cattlewoman.
  • causational — the action of causing or producing.
  • cavillation — any objection made to or dispute raised about trivial points or frivolities
  • ceftriaxone — (pharmaceutical drug) A synthetic cephalosporin antibiotic.
  • celebration — A celebration is a special enjoyable event that people organize because something pleasant has happened or because it is someone's birthday or anniversary.
  • cementation — the process of heating a solid with a powdered material to modify the properties of the solid, esp the heating of wrought iron, surrounded with charcoal, to 750–900°C to produce steel
  • cementatory — possessing the quality to firmly unite or cement
  • cenancestor — The last ancestor common of two or more lineages, especially the last universal common ancestor of all life.
  • centerboard — a movable board or metal plate that, when lowered through a slot in the floor of a shallow-draft sailboat, functions like a keel to reduce leeward drift or increase stability, esp. one that moves on a pivot
  • centimorgan — a unit of chromosome length, used in genetic mapping, equal to the length of chromosome over which crossing over occurs with 1 per cent frequency
  • centreboard — a supplementary keel for a sailing vessel, which may be adjusted by raising and lowering
  • centrobaric — of or concerned with a centre of gravity
  • centrosomal — Of or pertaining to a centrosome or centrosomes.
  • centuriator — a historian who compiles work by centuries, esp one of the writers of the Magdeburg Centuries
  • cephalothin — a cephalosporin antibiotic often used in the treatment of bacterial infections
  • ceratopsian — resembling or belonging to the Ceratopsia, a suborder of herbivorous dinosaurs characterized by their parrot-like beaks, horns, and neck frills
  • cerebration — the act of thinking; consideration; thought
  • cga monitor — a type of (early) computer monitor designed to operate with CGA technology
  • chaetognath — any small wormlike marine invertebrate of the phylum Chaetognatha, including the arrowworms, having a coelom and a ring of bristles around the mouth
  • chain store — A chain store is one of several similar shops that are owned by the same person or company, especially one that sells a variety of things.
  • chalkstones — Plural form of chalkstone.
  • chansonette — a little song
  • chaoticness — The state or quality of being chaotic.
  • charactonym — a name given to a literary character that is descriptive of a quality or trait of the character.
  • charlestown — oldest part of Boston, at the mouth of the Charles River: site of the battle of Bunker Hill
  • chattanooga — a city in SE Tennessee, on the Tennessee River: scene of two battles during the Civil War, in which the North defeated the Confederates, cleared Tennessee, and opened the way to Georgia (1863). Pop: 154 887 (2003 est)
  • chevrotains — Plural form of chevrotain.
  • china stone — a type of kaolinized granitic rock containing unaltered plagioclase
  • chinwangtao — Qinhuangdao
  • chiromantic — relating to chiromancy
  • chiropteran — of, relating to, or belonging to the Chiroptera, an order of placental mammals comprising the bats
  • chloanthite — a form of nickel arsenide having commercial importance as a nickel ore
  • chlorinated — Chlorinated water, for example drinking water or water in a swimming pool, has been cleaned by adding chlorine to it.
  • chlorinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chlorinate.
  • chlorinator — That which chlorinates.
  • choanocytes — Plural form of choanocyte.
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