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11-letter words containing a, o, n

  • brown water — shallow water, as opposed to deep (blue) water.
  • brown-state — (of linen and lace fabrics) undyed
  • brunch coat — a knee-length housecoat.
  • buccinatory — relating to a trumpeter or trumpet playing
  • buenos dias — good day; good morning
  • bulldog ant — any of several aggressive ants of the genus Myrmecia, mostly of Australia and Tasmania, capable of inflicting a painful and potentially dangerous sting.
  • bunco squad — an informal name for a police department dealing with fraud; fraud squad
  • buoyantness — the property of being buoyant
  • bus station — a place incorporating waiting areas, stands for buses, and ticket offices from which buses or coaches depart
  • bushelwoman — a woman who alters clothes
  • butorphanol — a narcotic analgesic, C 21 H 29 NO 2 , administered by injection to treat moderate to severe pain.
  • by means of — If you do something by means of a particular method, instrument, or process, you do it using that method, instrument, or process.
  • by no means — on no account; in no way
  • cabbagetown — a former slum area of Toronto, now known for its Victorian architecture and thriving arts community
  • cabin court — Older Use. a roadside motel having cabins.
  • cabinetwood — any wood suitable for use in cabinetwork.
  • cabinetwork — the making of furniture, esp of fine quality
  • cablevision — cable television.
  • cachinatory — Alternative form of cachinnatory.
  • cachinnator — One who laughs loudly and immoderately.
  • cacodemonic — relating to cacodemons
  • cacogenesis — (medicine) A morbid, monstrous, or pathological growth or product; an abnormality in structure; a monstrosity.
  • cacophonies — Plural form of cacophony.
  • cacophonous — If you describe a mixture of sounds as cacophonous, you mean that they are loud and unpleasant.
  • caddy spoon — a small spoon used in taking tea from a storage caddy.
  • cainophobia — The fear of newness and/or of things that are new.
  • calamondins — Plural form of calamondin.
  • calcination — to convert into calx by heating or burning.
  • calcinatory — A vessel used in calcination.
  • calculation — A calculation is something that you think about and work out mathematically. Calculation is the process of working something out mathematically.
  • calefaction — the act of heating
  • calf roping — a timed rodeo event in which a mounted rider chases and lassos a calf, dismounts, and throws the calf to the ground, tying three of the animal's legs with a short length of rope.
  • calibration — to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements).
  • californian — of or relating to California or its inhabitants
  • californite — vesuvianite jade.
  • 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.
  • call option — an option to buy a stated amount of securities at a specified price during a specified period
  • callousness — made hard; hardened.
  • calumniator — to make false and malicious statements about; slander.
  • calypsonian — a performer or writer of calypsos
  • calyptrogen — a layer of rapidly dividing cells at the tip of a plant root, from which the root cap is formed. It occurs in grasses and many other plants
  • cameraphone — a mobile phone incorporating a camera
  • camerawoman — a woman who operates a film or television camera
  • camerawomen — Plural form of camerawoman.
  • cameroonian — of, relating to, or characteristic of the Republic of Cameroon or its inhabitants
  • camino real — a main road; highway.
  • campaniform — shaped like a bell
  • campanology — the art or skill of ringing bells musically
  • campbeltown — a seaport on the Kintyre peninsula, in SW Scotland: resort.
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