11-letter words containing a, l, m, u, c
- chaulmoogra — a tropical Asian tree, Taraktogenos (or Hydnocarpus) kurzii: family Flacourtiaceae
- chlamydeous — (of plants) relating to or possessing sepals and petals
- chrome alum — a violet-red crystalline substance, used as a mordant in dyeing. Formula: KCr(SO4)2.12H2O
- chum salmon — a large salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) with pale flesh, found in the N Pacific
- circumbasal — surrounding the base.
- circumlunar — around or revolving around the moon
- circumpolar — (of a star or constellation) visible above the horizon at all times at a specified locality on the earth's surface
- circumsolar — surrounding or rotating around the sun
- clamorously — full of, marked by, or of the nature of clamor.
- clinandrium — a cavity in the upper part of the column of an orchid flower that contains the anthers
- clubmanship — the status of belonging to an active club
- cochlearium — In Ancient Rome, a small spoon with a long tapering handle.
- collunarium — a solution for application in the nose; nose drops.
- columbarium — a vault having niches for funeral urns
- columnarity — the fact or quality of being columnar
- columniated — having columns or arranged in columns
- comma fault — the use of a comma, rather than a semicolon, colon, or period, to separate related main clauses in the absence of a coordinating conjunction: often considered to be incorrect or undesirable, especially in formal writing.
- commissural — Of or pertaining to a commissure.
- communalise — Alternative form of communalize.
- communalism — a system or theory of government in which the state is seen as a loose federation of self-governing communities
- communalist — An advocate of communalism.
- communality — the state or condition of being communal.
- communalize — to render (something) the property of a commune or community
- consumables — goods intended to be bought, used, and replaced, esp materials needed for computers and photocopiers
- culminating — final; decisive
- culmination — Something, especially something important, that is the culmination of an activity, process, or series of events happens at the end of it.
- culminative — (of stress or tone accent) serving to indicate the number of independent words or the important points in an utterance by assigning prominence to one syllable in each word or close-knit group of words.
- culturalism — A belief system that emphasizes the role of culture.
- cumbernauld — a town in central Scotland, in North Lanarkshire, northeast of Glasgow: developed as a new town since 1956. Pop: 49 664 (2001)
- curtailment — The curtailment of something is the act of reducing or limiting it.
- customarily — according to custom; usually
- cut a melon — to declare an abnormally high dividend to shareholders
- duodecimals — Plural form of duodecimal.
- dutch metal — an alloy of copper and zinc in the form of thin sheets, used as an imitation of gold leaf.
- early music — music of the medieval, Renaissance, and early Baroque periods, especially revived and played on period instruments; European music after ancient music and before the classical music era, from the beginning of the Middle Ages to about 1750.
- emasculated — Simple past tense and past participle of emasculate.
- emasculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of emasculate.
- emasculator — One who, or that which, emasculates.
- emparlaunce — an act of parleying or conferring
- glucosamine — an aminosugar occurring in many polysaccharides of vertebrate tissue and also as the major component of chitin.
- gum elastic — rubber1 (def 1).
- herculaneum — an ancient city in SW Italy, on the Bay of Naples: buried along with Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in a.d. 79; partially excavated.
- homonuclear — a homonuclear molecule is composed of atoms of the same element or isotope and all of its nuclei are alike
- illuminance — illumination (def 6).
- impactfully — In an impactful fashion.
- implicature — potential inference that is not logical entailment.
- incunabulum — A book, single sheet, or image that was printed — not handwritten — before the year 1501 in Europe.
- itacolumite — a sandstone consisting of interlocking quartz grains and mica scales, found principally in Brazil and North Carolina, and noted for its flexibility in thin slabs.
- la camargue — a delta region in S France, between the channels of the Grand and Petit Rhône: cattle, esp bulls for the Spanish bullrings, and horses are reared
- labour camp — A labour camp is a kind of prison, where the prisoners are forced to do hard, physical work, usually outdoors.