11-letter words containing a, l, m, u
- 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
- date mussel — any brown, date-sized marine mussel, genus Lithophaga, that bores into rock or coral.
- datum plane — the horizontal plane from which heights and depths are calculated
- debut album — the first album produced by a particular singer or band
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- demand-pull — designating or having to do with a form of inflation in which prices are driven up by an excess demand for goods and services, relative to their supply
- demodulated — Simple past tense and past participle of demodulate.
- demodulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of demodulate.
- demodulator — a device used in demodulation
- demountable — to remove from a mounting, setting, or place of support, as a gun.
- demutualise — If a building society or insurance company demutualises, it abandons its mutual status and becomes a limited company.
- demutualize — If a savings and loan association or an insurance company demutualizes, it abandons its mutual status and becomes a different kind of company.
- denumerable — capable of being put into a one-to-one correspondence with the positive integers; countable
- denumerably — In a denumerable manner.
- deplumation — to deprive of feathers; pluck.
- desublimate — Psychology. to divert the energy of (a sexual or other biological impulse) from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
- diluvialism — the theory, generally abandoned in the mid-19th century, that the earth's surface was shaped by the biblical flood
- dismayfully — in a dismayful manner
- dissimulate — to disguise or conceal under a false appearance; dissemble: to dissimulate one's true feelings about a rival.
- dorsolumbar — of, relating to, or affecting the back in the region of the lumbar vertebrae.
- double-team — to defend against or block (an opposing player) by using two players, as in football or basketball: By double-teaming the end the safety men left the other receiver in the open.