11-letter words containing a, r, o, u, s
- byelorussia — Official name Belarus. Formerly White Russian Soviet Socialist Republic, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. a republic in E Europe, N of Ukraine: formerly a part of the Soviet Union. 80,154 sq. mi. (207,600 sq. km). Capital: Minsk.
- cafetoriums — Plural form of cafetorium.
- calciferous — forming or producing salts of calcium, esp calcium carbonate
- calcigerous — containing lime or other salts
- calculators — Plural form of calculator.
- calochortus — any plant of the genus Calochortus, of the lily family, as the mariposa lily and the sego lily.
- campgrounds — Plural form of campground.
- cancerously — In a cancerous manner; like a cancer; malignant; spreading.
- capricornus — a faint zodiacal constellation in the S hemisphere, lying between Sagittarius and Aquarius
- carburetors — Plural form of carburetor.
- cardophagus — a donkey
- carduaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Carduaceae, a subfamily of composite plants that includes the thistle
- carnaptious — ill-tempered or cantankerous
- carniferous — bearing flesh.
- carnivorous — Carnivorous animals eat meat.
- carousingly — in a carousing manner
- carpophorus — an epithet of both Demeter and her daughter, Persephone, meaning “fruit-bearer.”.
- cassiodorus — Flavius Magnus Aurelius (ˈfleɪvɪəs ˈmæɡnəs ɔːˈriːlɪəs). ?490–?585 ad, Roman statesman, writer, and monk; author of Variae, a collection of official documents written for the Ostrogoths
- casual work — temporary, as opposed to permanent or regular, employment
- catadromous — (of fishes such as the eel) migrating down rivers to the sea in order to breed
- cataloguers — Plural form of cataloguer.
- cataractous — of or relating to cataracts
- cavernously — In a cavernous manner; like a cavern.
- cavernulous — possessing or being full of small cavities
- ceteosaurus — a large dinosaur of the Jurassic period
- champertous — a sharing in the proceeds of litigation by one who agrees with either the plaintiff or defendant to help promote it or carry it on.
- chart house — a room or deckhouse for storing and working with charts, navigational instruments, etc.
- chartaceous — of the nature of paper; papery
- chiaroscuro — Chiaroscuro is the use of light and shade in a picture, or the effect produced by light and shade in a place.
- chou pastry — cream puff paste.
- circulators — Plural form of circulator.
- circumsolar — surrounding or rotating around the sun
- clamorously — full of, marked by, or of the nature of clamor.
- clavigerous — bearing a key or club
- cloud grass — a grass, Agrostis nebulosa, of Spain, having clusters of tiny spikelets on slender stalks, used in bouquets.
- coast guard — The coast guard is a part of a country's military forces and is responsible for protecting the coast, carrying out rescues, and doing police work along the coast.
- coelurosaur — any of various small to very large bipedal carnivorous saurischian dinosaurs belonging to the suborder Theropoda, active in the Triassic and Cretaceous periods; Tyrannosaurus was a coelurosaur, and birds are thought to have evolved from small coelurosaurs
- coinsurance — a method of insurance by which property is insured for a certain percentage of its value by a commercial insurance policy while the owner assumes liability for the remainder
- coloraturas — Plural form of coloratura.
- commissural — Of or pertaining to a commissure.
- commutators — Plural form of commutator.
- connaisseur — A specialist of a given field, especially in one of the fine arts or in a matter of taste: a connoisseur.
- construable — that can be construed
- constuprate — to rape or violate
- consummator — to bring to a state of perfection; fulfill.
- contrarious — (of people or animals) perverse or obstinate
- cornucopias — Plural form of cornucopia.
- coronavirus — a type of airborne virus accounting for 10-30% of all colds
- corpuscular — Biology. an unattached cell, especially of a kind that floats freely, as a blood or lymph cell.
- corrugators — Plural form of corrugator.