11-letter words containing c, i, a, o
- audiometric — the testing of hearing by means of an audiometer.
- auto racing — the sport of racing automobiles in which drivers compete against each other on a course designed for racing or on closed public roads.
- auto-erotic — producing sexual excitement or pleasure without association with another person or external stimulation.
- autoclaving — Present participle of autoclave.
- autocracies — Plural form of autocracy.
- autodidacts — Plural form of autodidact.
- autodynamic — Supplying its own power.
- autogenetic — self-generated.
- autographic — of, for, or like an autograph or autographs
- autokinetic — automatically self-moving
- autological — (grammar) Of a phrase (especially an adjective), possessing the property it describes.
- automagical — (of a usually complicated technical or computer process) done, operating, or happening in a way that is hidden from or not understood by the user, and in that sense, apparently “magical”: I just downloaded an automagical update to my word processing software that somehow fixed the problems.
- automatical — Archaic form of automatic.
- automorphic — shaped and designed after oneself
- autonomical — autonomous.
- autoplastic — Of or pertaining to autoplasty.
- autopotamic — (of an organism) living or growing only in flowing freshwater streams.
- autotrophic — (of organisms such as green plants) capable of manufacturing complex organic nutritive compounds from simple inorganic sources such as carbon dioxide, water, and nitrates, using energy from the sun
- auxochromic — any radical or group of atoms that intensifies the color of a substance.
- auxotrophic — designating or of a mutant organism requiring more nutritional substances than its prototrophic parent because it has lost the ability to make a certain enzyme
- avocational — of or relating to avocation
- axiological — the branch of philosophy dealing with values, as those of ethics, aesthetics, or religion.
- axiomatical — Of or pertaining to an axiom; having the nature of an axiom; characterized by axioms.
- axonometric — of or relating to a projection method of representing three-dimensional objects on a flat surface
- babelicious — (of a woman) sexually very attractive.
- bacciferous — bearing berries
- baccivorous — feeding on berries
- bachelorism — bachelorhood
- bacilliform — shaped like a rod
- back boiler — a tank or series of pipes at the back of a fireplace for heating water
- back office — the administrative and support staff of a financial institution or other business
- backflowing — Flowing backwards.
- backing dog — a dog that moves a flock of sheep by jumping on their backs
- backloading — to defer to a later date, as wages, benefits, or costs: The union agreed to back-load pay raises.
- backlogging — a reserve or accumulation, as of stock, work, or business: a backlog of business orders.
- backside-to — backend-to.
- backsolving — Present participle of backsolve.
- bacteriocin — any protein-based toxin given off by bacteria to prevent the growth of related bacteria nearby
- bacteriosis — any bacterial disease
- bacteroides — any of several rod-shaped, anaerobic bacteria of the genus Bacteroides, occurring in the alimentary and genitourinary tracts of humans and other mammals, certain species of which are pathogenic.
- baculovirus — any of a family of viruses that attack insects and other arthropods, used as biological pesticides
- baldacchino — baldachin
- bambocciata — a genre painting of usually small size produced in Rome in the 17th century.
- baranovichi — a city in W central Belarus, SW of Minsk.
- baroclinity — a common state of fluid stratification in which surfaces of constant pressure and others of constant density are not parallel but intersect.
- barographic — Measured using a barograph.
- baronetical — pertaining to baronets
- basic cobol — (language) A subset of COBOL from COBOL-60 standards.
- basidiocarp — the fruiting body of basidiomycetous fungi; the mushroom of agarics
- batholithic — Containing or relating to batholith.