11-letter words containing c, e, t, o, l
- necrologist — a list of persons who have died within a certain time.
- nematocidal — Acting as a nematocide; fatal to nematodes.
- neocortical — the largest and evolutionarily most recent portion of the cerebral cortex, composed of complex, layered tissue, the site of most of the higher brain functions.
- neologistic — a new word, meaning, usage, or phrase.
- neoplatonic — a philosophical system, originated in the 3rd century a.d. by Plotinus, founded chiefly on Platonic doctrine and Eastern mysticism, with later influences from Christianity. It holds that all existence consists of emanations from the One with whom the soul may be reunited.
- neosilicate — (chemistry) any simple silicate mineral in which the SiO4 tetrahedra are isolated and have metal ions as neighbours.
- neotropical — belonging or pertaining to a geographical division comprising that part of the New World extending from the tropic of Cancer southward.
- neuroleptic — (chiefly of a drug) tending to reduce nervous tension by depressing nerve functions.
- noctilucent — (of high-altitude clouds) visible during the short night of the summer.
- nomenclator — a person who assigns names, as in scientific classification; classifier.
- non-citable — to quote (a passage, book, author, etc.), especially as an authority: He cited the Constitution in his defense.
- non-ductile — capable of being hammered out thin, as certain metals; malleable.
- nonathletic — physically active and strong; good at athletics or sports: an athletic child.
- nonelection — the state of not being elected for salvation
- nonelective — Not elective.
- nonelectric — Not electric; not operated by electricity.
- nonmetallic — of or relating to a nonmetal.
- nonmetrical — (music) Without the constraints of a metronome; not played or sung with a strict underlying rhythmic method.
- nonselected — to choose in preference to another or others; pick out.
- nonsilicate — Mineralogy. any of the largest group of mineral compounds, as quartz, beryl, garnet, feldspar, mica, and various kinds of clay, consisting of SiO 2 or SiO 4 groupings and one or more metallic ions, with some forms containing hydrogen. Silicates constitute well over 90 percent of the rock-forming minerals of the earth's crust.
- nonvertical — being in a position or direction perpendicular to the plane of the horizon; upright; plumb.
- northcliffe — Viscount, Alfred Charles William Harmsworth.
- nose tackle — nose guard
- not exactly — not at all; by no means
- np-complete — (complexity) (NPC, Nondeterministic Polynomial time complete) A set or property of computational decision problems which is a subset of NP (i.e. can be solved by a nondeterministic Turing Machine in polynomial time), with the additional property that it is also NP-hard. Thus a solution for one NP-complete problem would solve all problems in NP. Many (but not all) naturally arising problems in class NP are in fact NP-complete. There is always a polynomial-time algorithm for transforming an instance of any NP-complete problem into an instance of any other NP-complete problem. So if you could solve one you could solve any other by transforming it to the solved one. The first problem ever shown to be NP-complete was the satisfiability problem. Another example is Hamilton's problem. See also computational complexity, halting problem, Co-NP, NP-hard.
- nucleolated — containing a nucleolus or nucleoli.
- nucleotides — any of a group of molecules that, when linked together, form the building blocks of DNA or RNA: composed of a phosphate group, the bases adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine, and a pentose sugar, in RNA the thymine base being replaced by uracil.
- object ball — the first ball struck by the cue ball in making a carom. Compare carom ball.
- object lens — objective (def 3).
- object lisp — (language) An object-oriented Lisp developed by Lisp Machines Inc. (LMI) in about 1987. Object Lisp was based on nested closures and operator shadowing. Several competing object-orientated extensions to Lisp were around at the time, such as Flavors, in use by Symbolics; Common Objects, developed by Hewlett-Packard; and CommonLoops in use by Xerox. LMI submitted the specification as a candidate for an object-oriented standard for Common Lisp, but it was defeated in favour of CLOS.
- objectional — Objectionable.
- objectively — something that one's efforts or actions are intended to attain or accomplish; purpose; goal; target: the objective of a military attack; the objective of a fund-raising drive.
- obsolescent — becoming obsolete; passing out of use, as a word: an obsolescent term.
- obstetrical — of or relating to the care and treatment of women in childbirth and during the period before and after delivery.
- occidentals — Plural form of occidental.
- octuplicate — a group, series, or set of eight identical copies (usually preceded by in).
- old castile — a region in N Spain: formerly a province.
- olfactories — of or relating to the sense of smell: olfactory organs.
- oligochaete — any of various annelids of the family Oligochaeta, including earthworms and certain small, freshwater species, having locomotory setae sunk directly in the body wall.
- on the club — away from work due to sickness, esp when receiving sickness benefit
- one old cat — a form of baseball in which there is a home plate and one other base, and in which a player remains at bat and scores runs by hitting the ball and running to the base and back without being put out.
- operculated — relating to the operculum
- ophicalcite — a type of marble containing serpentine and calcite
- optocoupler — An optoisolator.
- orthoclases — Plural form of orthoclase.
- oscillative — disposed to oscillation
- osteoclases — Plural form of osteoclasis.
- osteoclasis — Physiology. the breaking down or absorption of osseous tissue.
- osteoclasts — Plural form of osteoclast.
- ostrichlike — a large, two-toed, swift-footed flightless bird, Struthio camelus, indigenous to Africa and Arabia, domesticated for its plumage: the largest of living birds.