11-letter words containing c, l, o, u
- countryfolk — people living or raised in the country; rustics.
- coup d'oeil — a quick glance
- courteously — having or showing good manners; polite.
- courtliness — polite, refined, or elegant: courtly manners.
- crapulosity — the quality of being crapulous or crapulent
- crapulously — In a crapulous manner.
- credulously — In a credulous manner; believably.
- crenulation — any of the teeth or notches of a crenulate structure
- crest cloud — a stationary cloud parallel to and near the top of a mountain ridge. Compare cap cloud (def 1).
- croquignole — a small crisp cake
- cross vault — a vault or ceiling created by the intersection of vaults.
- cuitlacoche — corn smut.
- culdoscopes — Plural form of culdoscope.
- culmicolous — (of a fungus) growing on grass culms.
- culmiferous — (of grasses) having a hollow jointed stem
- culmination — Something, especially something important, that is the culmination of an activity, process, or series of events happens at the end of it.
- cultivation — the planting, tending, improving, or harvesting of crops or plants
- cultivators — Plural form of cultivator.
- culturology — a branch of anthropology concerned with the study of cultural institutions as distinct from the people who are involved in them.
- culturomics — the study of human culture and cultural trends over time by means of quantitative analysis of words and phrases in a very large corpus of digitized texts: Culturomics can pinpoint periods of accelerated language change.
- culver hole — a hole for receiving a timber.
- cumulonimbi — Plural form of cumulonimbus.
- cunobelinus — also called Cymbeline. died ?42 ad, British ruler of the Catuvellauni tribe (?10–?42); founder of Colchester (?10)
- cupellation — the process of recovering precious metals from lead by melting the alloy in a cupel and oxidizing the lead by means of an air blast
- cupronickel — any ductile corrosion-resistant copper alloy containing up to 40 per cent nickel: used in coins, condenser tubes, turbine blades, etc
- cushionless — without a cushion
- customarily — according to custom; usually
- cut a melon — to declare an abnormally high dividend to shareholders
- cutaneously — In a cutaneous way.
- cutting oil — a specially prepared oil used as a cutting fluid.
- cuttlebones — Plural form of cuttlebone.
- cutty stool — (formerly, in Scotland) the church seat on which an unchaste person sat while being harangued by the minister
- cyclobutane — (uncountable, organic compound) A simple alicyclic hydrocarbon, C4H8; a light inflammable gas.
- deciduously — shedding the leaves annually, as certain trees and shrubs.
- declivitous — fairly steep
- deliciously — In a delicious manner.
- dextrocular — favoring the right eye, rather than the left, by habit or for effective vision (opposed to sinistrocular).
- dicephalous — having two heads
- diplococcus — any of several spherical bacteria occurring in pairs, as Diplococcus pneumoniae.
- disc plough — a plough that cuts by means of revolving steel discs
- disclosures — Plural form of disclosure.
- discolorous — (botany, of leaves) Having upper and lower surfaces of different colours.
- discoloured — (British) alternative spelling of discolored.
- double back — twice as large, heavy, strong, etc.; twofold in size, amount, number, extent, etc.: a double portion; a new house double the size of the old one.
- double chin — a fold of fat beneath the chin.
- double coat — an outer coat of hair on a dog serving as protection against underbrush and resistant to weather, combined with an undercoat of softer hair for warmth and waterproofing.
- double lock — a spring lock that can also serve as a deadbolt by an extra turn of the key
- double-crop — to raise two consecutive crops on the same land within a single growing season.
- double-deck — Also, double-decked. having two decks, tiers, or levels: a double-deck bunk; a double-deck bus.
- double-lock — to lock with two turns of a key, so that a second bolt is engaged.