11-letter words containing c, n
- affectional — relating to or implying affection.
- affectioned — Simple past tense and past participle of affection.
- afficionado — aficionado.
- afflictions — Plural form of affliction.
- afforcement — an increase in force or strength
- affordances — Plural form of affordance.
- affranchise — to release from servitude or an obligation
- affranchize — (possibly nonstandard) alternative spelling of affranchise.
- affrication — the changing of (a consonantal speech sound) to an affricate
- aficionadas — Plural form of aficionada.
- aficionados — Plural form of aficionado.
- afrocentric — centered on, emphasizing, or showing the influence of African or, sometimes, African-American history and culture
- after-lunch — occurring after a midday meal
- agency shop — a contract arrangement between an employer and the union representing the majority of employees, which requires those who do not wish to be members to pay the union a fee equivalent to union dues
- aggrievance — Oppression; hardship; injury; grievance.
- agnatically — from an agnatic point of view
- agnosticism — Agnosticism is the belief that it is not possible to say definitely whether or not there is a God. Compare atheism.
- agonic line — an imaginary line on the surface of the earth connecting points of zero magnetic declination
- agonistical — relating to conflict or struggle
- agony uncle — a man who writes the replies to readers' letters in an agony column
- agronomical — the science of soil management and the production of field crops.
- air cleaner — a filter that prevents dust and other particles from entering the air-intake of an internal-combustion engine
- air command — the Canadian air force
- air current — a mass of air moving from one area to another
- air curtain — an air stream across a doorway to exclude draughts, etc
- air cushion — an inflatable cushion, usually made of rubber or plastic
- aircraftman — a serviceman of the most junior rank in the RAF
- aircraftmen — Plural form of aircraftman.
- airsickness — a feeling of nausea and dizziness, sometimes accompanied by vomiting, as a result of the motion of the aircraft in which one is traveling.
- albuminuric — related to the state of albuminuria
- alcalescent — Alternative spelling of alkalescent.
- alcaligenes — any of several rod-shaped aerobic or facultatively anaerobic bacteria of the genus Alcaligenes, found in the intestinal tract of humans and other vertebrates and in dairy products.
- alchemizing — Present participle of alchemize.
- alcyonarian — any of various colonial anthozoans of the subclass Alcyonaria with eight tentacles and other body parts in branches or segments of eight
- aleggeaunce — the alleviation of grief or a burden
- aleuromancy — (in ancient times) the use of flour as a means of divination.
- alkalescent — developing alkaline qualities
- all at once — If something happens all at once, it happens suddenly, often when you are not expecting it to happen.
- allegiances — the loyalty of a citizen to his or her government or of a subject to his or her sovereign.
- allen screw — a screw that has a hexagonal cross section in the head, designed to be turned using an Allen key
- allocations — Plural form of allocation.
- allocentric — Concerned with the interests of others more than one's own; community-minded.
- allochronic — (biology, of taxa) occurring in different geologic time.
- allocutions — Plural form of allocution.
- allowancing — Present participle of allowance.
- almond cake — the residue of almonds from which oil has been expressed.
- alpenstocks — Plural form of alpenstock.
- alpha cygni — Deneb
- alt.country — a genre of country music originating in the 1990s and influenced by both early country music and contemporary rock music
- altercation — An altercation is a noisy argument or disagreement.