11-letter words containing a, c, u, s, o
- cycadaceous — belonging or pertaining to the order Cycadales.
- cymophanous — lustrous; brilliant
- cyperaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Cyperaceae, a family of grasslike flowering plants with solid triangular stems, including the sedges, bulrush, cotton grass, and certain rushes. Some are grown as water plants or as ornamental grasses; and Cyperus papyrus is the papyrus plant
- cytophagous — the ingestion of cells by other cells.
- damp course — A damp course is a layer of waterproof material which is put into the bottom of the outside wall of a building to prevent moisture from rising.
- dawn chorus — The dawn chorus is the singing of birds at dawn.
- decussation — a decussating or being decussated
- diacoustics — the branch of physics that deals with refracted sound
- diascordium — a herbal medicine, no longer in use, containing among other ingredients the herb scordium and opium
- dicephalous — having two heads
- dichogamous — having the stamens and pistils maturing at different times, thereby preventing self-pollination, as a monoclinous flower (opposed to homogamous).
- dio cassius — ?155–?230 ad, Roman historian. His History of Rome covers the period of Rome's transition from Republic to Empire
- disaccustom — to cause to lose a habit: In the country I was quickly disaccustomed of sleeping late.
- discouraged — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
- discourager — One who discourages.
- discourages — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discourage.
- disgracious — Lacking grace; not pleasing; disagreeable.
- duodecimals — Plural form of duodecimal.
- duplicators — Plural form of duplicator.
- duster coat — a woman's loose summer coat with wide sleeves and no buttons, popular in the mid-20th century
- eagle scout — a boy scout who has achieved the highest rank in U.S. scouting.
- efficacious — capable of having the desired result or effect; effective as a means, measure, remedy, etc.: The medicine is efficacious in stopping a cough.
- elucidators — Plural form of elucidator.
- emasculator — One who, or that which, emasculates.
- enunciators — Plural form of enunciator.
- equivocates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of equivocate.
- eructations — Plural form of eructation.
- escarmouche — a skirmish
- evacuations — Plural form of evacuation.
- exonuclease — An enzyme that removes successive nucleotides from the end of a polynucleotide molecule.
- fabulicious — (slang) Exceptionally fabulous and appealing.
- facetiously — not meant to be taken seriously or literally: a facetious remark.
- facinerious — (in the works of Shakespeare) extremely wicked
- farinaceous — consisting or made of flour or meal, as food.
- flocculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flocculate.
- fluticasone — (organic compound) A synthetic corticosteroid whose furoate and propionate forms are used as topical anti-inflammatories.
- fractiously — In a fractious manner.
- functionals — Plural form of functional.
- gas vacuole — a gas-filled structure that provides buoyancy in some aquatic bacteria
- 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.
- glucosidase — (enzyme) Any enzyme that hydrolyses glucosides.
- goatsuckers — Plural form of goatsucker.
- grass court — an outdoor tennis court having a grass surface.
- heat source — sth that generates warmth
- hederaceous — (rare) Of, pertaining to, or resembling ivy.
- hercogamous — (of flowers) incapable of self-fertilization
- hippocampus — Classical Mythology. a sea horse with two forefeet, and a body ending in the tail of a dolphin or fish.
- holocaustic — a great or complete devastation or destruction, especially by fire.
- horn clause — (logic) A set of atomic literals with at most one positive literal. Usually written L <- L1, ..., Ln or <- L1, ..., Ln where n>=0, "<-" means "is implied by" and comma stands for conjuction ("AND"). If L is false the clause is regarded as a goal. Horn clauses can express a subset of statements of first order logic. The name "Horn Clause" comes from the logician Alfred Horn, who first pointed out the significance of such clauses in 1951, in the article "On sentences which are true of direct unions of algebras", Journal of Symbolic Logic, 16, 14-21. A definite clause is a Horn clause that has exactly one positive literal.