11-letter words containing c, o, i, n
- isotonicity — (uncountable) The state of being isotonic.
- jackarooing — Present participle of jackaroo.
- jacobinized — Simple past tense and past participle of jacobinize.
- jactitation — Law. a false boast or claim that causes injury to another.
- jargonistic — the language, especially the vocabulary, peculiar to a particular trade, profession, or group: medical jargon.
- job costing — a method of cost accounting by which the total cost of a given unit or quantity is determined by computing the costs that go into making a product as it moves through the manufacturing process.
- john calvin — John (Jean Chauvin or Caulvin) 1509–64, French theologian and reformer in Switzerland: leader in the Protestant Reformation.
- join forces — unite for a common purpose
- joined case — a trial combining multiple related claims, etc
- joint stock — stock or capital divided into a number of shares.
- kaffir corn — a Southern African variety of sorghum, cultivated in dry regions for its grain and as fodder
- kantorovich — Leonid Vitalyevich [ley-uh-nid vi-tal-yuh-vich;; Russian lyi-uh-nyeet vyi-tah-lyuh-vyich] /ˈleɪ ə nɪd vɪˈtæl yə vɪtʃ;; Russian lyɪ ʌˈnyit vyɪˈtɑ lyə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1912–86, Soviet mathematician and economist: Nobel Prize in Economics 1975.
- kick around — to strike with the foot or feet: to kick the ball; to kick someone in the shins.
- kick boxing — a form of boxing in which the gloved combatants may also kick with bare feet.
- kinetochore — Biology. the place on either side of the centromere to which the spindle fibers are attached during cell division.
- kinetoscope — an early motion-picture device, invented by Edison, in which the film passed behind a peephole for viewing by a single viewer.
- 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.
- king cotton — cotton and cotton-growing considered, in the pre-Civil War South, as a vital commodity, the major factor not only in the economy but also in politics.
- kingcroaker — The weakfish or sea trout.
- knee action — Automotive. a form of suspension for the front wheels of a vehicle permitting each wheel to rise and fall independently of the other.
- knot stitch — a stitch that produces a knot on the fabric surface, made by twining the thread about the needle.
- kohl pencil — a thin cylindrical cosmetic instrument used to darken the area around the eyes
- koilonychia — an abnormal condition in which the outer surfaces of the nails are concave; spoon nail.
- la-gioconda — Italian La Gioconda. a portrait (1503?–05?) by Leonardo da Vinci.
- labefaction — Deterioration or downfall.
- lacerations — Plural form of laceration.
- laconically — using few words; expressing much in few words; concise: a laconic reply.
- lacrimation — the secretion of tears, especially in abnormal abundance.
- lactational — Of or pertaining to lactation.
- lactoferrin — a glycoprotein present in milk, especially human milk, and supplying iron to suckling infants.
- lactoflavin — riboflavin.
- laicization — The act of laicizing.
- lamellicorn — having antennae with lamellate terminal segments, as beetles of the group Lamellicornia, including the scarabaeids and stag beetles.
- laminectomy — the surgical removal of part of the posterior arch of a vertebra to provide access to the spinal canal, as for the excision of a ruptured disk.
- lancination — A tearing or laceration.
- land office — a government office for the transaction of business relating to public lands.
- langobardic — Lombard1 (def 4).
- latin cross — an upright or vertical bar crossed near the top by a shorter horizontal bar.
- latrocinium — highway robbery
- launch into — begin enthusiastically
- lemon juice — citrus juice from lemons
- lemon stick — a lemon half with a peppermint stick stuck in it, through which the lemon juice is sucked.
- leuconychia — White discoloration appearing on nails. Also known as white nails.
- leukonychia — Alt form leuconychia.
- lichenology — the branch of biology that studies lichens.
- lignicolous — growing or living on or in wood
- lincolniana — books, papers, objects, etc. having to do with Abraham Lincoln
- lincolnwood — a city in NE Illinois.
- line vector — a vector having specified magnitude and lying on a given line.
- liposuction — the surgical withdrawal of excess fat from local areas under the skin by means of a small incision and vacuum suctioning.