11-letter words containing c, l, o, s, e, n
- fluorescing — Present participle of fluoresce.
- fluticasone — (organic compound) A synthetic corticosteroid whose furoate and propionate forms are used as topical anti-inflammatories.
- foreclosing — Present participle of foreclose.
- genius loci — the guardian spirit of a place.
- geosyncline — a portion of the earth's crust subjected to downward warping during a large span of geologic time; a geosynclinal fold.
- 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.
- goldfinches — Plural form of goldfinch.
- half-second — 1/120 of a minute of time
- 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
- iconophiles — a connoisseur of icons or images.
- 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.
- in lockstep — When members of the armed forces march in lockstep, they march very close to each other.
- incompletes — Plural form of incomplete.
- incredulous — not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical.
- inflections — Plural form of inflection.
- inosculated — Simple past tense and past participle of inosculate.
- inosculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inosculate.
- inosilicate — any silicate having a structure consisting of paired parallel chains of tetrahedral silicate groups, every other of which shares an oxygen atom with a group of the other chain, the ratio of silicon to oxygen being 4 to 11.
- insectology — entomology.
- intercostal — pertaining to muscles, parts, or intervals between the ribs.
- interschool — Occurring or taking place between two or more schools.
- intersocial — relating to, devoted to, or characterized by friendly companionship or relations: a social club.
- isoleucines — Plural form of isoleucine.
- king closer — a brick of regular length and thickness, used in building corners, having a long bevel from a point on one side to one about halfway across the adjacent end.
- knoop scale — a scale of hardness based on the indentation made in the material to be tested by a diamond point.
- lacerations — Plural form of laceration.
- larcenously — In a larcenous manner.
- launch shoe — an attachment to an aircraft from which a missile is launched
- leap second — Coordinated Universal Time
- lemon stick — a lemon half with a peppermint stick stuck in it, through which the lemon juice is sucked.
- locust bean — carob.
- logicalness — according to or agreeing with the principles of logic: a logical inference.
- long splice — a splice for forming a united rope narrow enough to pass through a block, made by unlaying the ends of two ropes for a considerable distance, overlapping the strands so as to make pairs of one strand from each rope, unlaying one of each pair, twisting the other strand into its place in the united rope, and tucking the yarns of the unlaid strand separately into place.
- lucy stoner — a person who advocates the retention of the maiden name by married women. Compare Stone (def 5).
- lychnoscope — lowside window.
- malcontents — Plural form of malcontent.
- melanocytes — Plural form of melanocyte.
- mesocranial — mesocephalic
- mesocyclone — a small cyclone that arises near a thunderstorm and is sometimes associated with the occurrence of tornadoes.
- millisecond — one thousandth of a second. Abbreviation: msec.
- minor scale — Also called harmonic minor scale. a scale having half steps between the second and third, fifth and sixth, and seventh and eighth degrees, with whole steps for the other intervals.
- musclebound — having enlarged and inelastic muscles, as from excessive exercise.
- necrologies — Plural form of necrology.
- necrologist — a list of persons who have died within a certain time.
- necropoleis — Plural form of necropolis.