11-letter words containing c, l, o, n, u, s
- counselling — Counselling is advice which a therapist or other expert gives to someone about a particular problem.
- counsellors — Plural form of counsellor.
- counterseal — a smaller seal on the reverse of the main seal
- countlessly — in a countless manner
- courtliness — polite, refined, or elegant: courtly manners.
- cunobelinus — also called Cymbeline. died ?42 ad, British ruler of the Catuvellauni tribe (?10–?42); founder of Colchester (?10)
- cushionless — without a cushion
- cutaneously — In a cutaneous way.
- cuttlebones — Plural form of cuttlebone.
- endochylous — having water-storing cells
- exonuclease — An enzyme that removes successive nucleotides from the end of a polynucleotide molecule.
- flucytosine — a synthetic whitish crystalline powder, C 4 H 4 FN 3 O, with antifungal activity, used in the treatment of systemic and eye fungal infections caused by susceptible strains of Candida or Cryptococcus.
- fluorescein — an orange-red, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 20 H 12 O 5 , that in alkaline solutions produces an orange color and an intense green fluorescence: used to trace subterranean waters and in dyes.
- fluorescent — possessing the property of fluorescence; exhibiting fluorescence.
- fluorescing — Present participle of fluoresce.
- fluticasone — (organic compound) A synthetic corticosteroid whose furoate and propionate forms are used as topical anti-inflammatories.
- full cousin — cousin (def 1).
- functionals — Plural form of functional.
- furunculous — Furuncular.
- genius loci — the guardian spirit of a place.
- glucokinase — an enzyme, found in all living systems, that serves to catalyze the phosphorylation of gluconic acid.
- glucosamine — an aminosugar occurring in many polysaccharides of vertebrate tissue and also as the major component of chitin.
- glycogenous — of or relating to the formation of sugar in the liver.
- honeylocust — any of a genus (Gleditsia) of trees of the caesalpinia family, esp. a North American species (G. triacanthos) usually having strong, thorny branches, featherlike foliage, and large, twisted pods containing beanlike seeds and a sweet pulp
- honeysuckle — any upright or climbing shrub of the genus Diervilla, especially D. lonicera, cultivated for its fragrant white, yellow, or red tubular flowers.
- horn clause — (logic) A set of atomic literals with at most one positive literal. Usually written L <- L1, ..., Ln or <- L1, ..., Ln where n>=0, "<-" means "is implied by" and comma stands for conjuction ("AND"). If L is false the clause is regarded as a goal. Horn clauses can express a subset of statements of first order logic. The name "Horn Clause" comes from the logician Alfred Horn, who first pointed out the significance of such clauses in 1951, in the article "On sentences which are true of direct unions of algebras", Journal of Symbolic Logic, 16, 14-21. A definite clause is a Horn clause that has exactly one positive literal.
- house-clean — to clean the inside of a person's house
- in close-up — If you see something in close-up, you see it in great detail in a photograph or piece of film which has been taken very near to the subject.
- incredulous — not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical.
- incuriously — In an incurious manner.
- innocuously — not harmful or injurious; harmless: an innocuous home remedy.
- inosculated — Simple past tense and past participle of inosculate.
- inosculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inosculate.
- isoleucines — Plural form of isoleucine.
- janus cloth — a worsted fabric, each side of which has a different color.
- juan carlos — King (Juan Carlos Alfonso Victor María de Borbón y Borbón) born 1938, Spanish monarch, born in Italy: king since 1975.
- larcenously — In a larcenous manner.
- launch shoe — an attachment to an aircraft from which a missile is launched
- lignicolous — growing or living on or in wood
- liposuction — the surgical withdrawal of excess fat from local areas under the skin by means of a small incision and vacuum suctioning.
- locust bean — carob.
- lucy stoner — a person who advocates the retention of the maiden name by married women. Compare Stone (def 5).
- lunch-hooks — Usually, lunchhooks. hands.
- masculation — Making masculine; giving male characteristics.
- monoclinous — (of a plant, species, etc.) having both the stamens and pistils in the same flower.
- monticolous — existing or having a habitat in or on mountains
- musclebound — having enlarged and inelastic muscles, as from excessive exercise.
- musculation — (anatomy) The muscular system of an animal, or of any of its parts.
- noctilucous — (obsolete) Shining in the night; luminescent.
- non-closure — the act of closing; the state of being closed.