11-letter words containing c, l, o, s, t
- melioristic — the doctrine that the world tends to become better or may be made better by human effort.
- meroblastic — (of certain eggs) undergoing partial cleavage, resulting in unequal blastomeres.
- mesoblastic — (biology) of, relating to, or resembling the mesoblast.
- microlights — Plural form of microlight.
- misallocate — to allocate mistakenly or improperly: to misallocate resources.
- mislocation — to misplace.
- model stock — Model stock is the maintenance of adequate levels of stock of an item so that an adequate supply is always available for selling.
- monoblastic — having a single layer, as an embryo in the blastula stage or developing from a single layer.
- monocrystal — A single crystal.
- monticolous — existing or having a habitat in or on mountains
- most-caller — (of fruit, fish, vegetables, etc.) fresh; recently picked or caught.
- mostaccioli — penne
- motorcycles — Plural form of motorcycle.
- moustachial — (of a stripe on a beak or snout of an animal) resembling a moustache
- multicourse — a direction or route taken or to be taken.
- multifocals — multifocal spectacles
- multisource — Employing multiple sources.
- musculation — (anatomy) The muscular system of an animal, or of any of its parts.
- music stool — a stool you sit on when playing a musical instrument
- mycologists — Plural form of mycologist.
- nanocrystal — A crystalline entity whose size is measured in nanometers; an individual nanometer-sized crystal of such a material.
- necrologist — a list of persons who have died within a certain time.
- neologistic — a new word, meaning, usage, or phrase.
- neosilicate — (chemistry) any simple silicate mineral in which the SiO4 tetrahedra are isolated and have metal ions as neighbours.
- noctilucous — (obsolete) Shining in the night; luminescent.
- non-clastic — Biology. breaking up into fragments or separate portions; dividing into parts.
- nonmystical — not mystical
- 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.
- nose tackle — nose guard
- 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.
- nun's cloth — a thin soft plain-weave silk or worsted fabric used for veils, dresses, etc
- 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.
- 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.
- occipitalis — A muscle of the head, sometimes considered to be part of the occipitofrontal muscle.
- old castile — a region in N Spain: formerly a province.
- old scratch — the devil; Satan.
- olfactories — of or relating to the sense of smell: olfactory organs.
- oncologists — Plural form of oncologist.
- orthoclases — Plural form of orthoclase.
- oscillating — Moving in a repeated back-and-forth motion.
- oscillation — an act or instance of oscillating.
- oscillative — disposed to oscillation
- oscillators — Plural form of oscillator.
- oscillatory — characterized by or involving oscillation.
- osmotically — Physical Chemistry, Cell Biology. the tendency of a fluid, usually water, to pass through a semipermeable membrane into a solution where the solvent concentration is higher, thus equalizing the concentrations of materials on either side of the membrane. the diffusion of fluids through membranes or porous partitions. Compare endosmosis, exosmosis.
- osteoclases — Plural form of osteoclasis.