11-letter words containing c, o, i, s
- ars poetica — the art of poetry
- ascensional — (astronomy) Relating to ascension.
- asciibonics — (chat) (From ASCII and Ebonics) A style of text communication in English which is most common on talk systems such as irc. Its notable characteristics are: Typing all in lowercase (and occasionally all in uppercase). Copious use of abbreviations of the sort "u" for "you" "1" for "one" (and therefore "some1" for "someone", "ne1" for "anyone"), "2" for "to", "r" for "are", etc. A general lack of punctuation, except for strings of question marks and exclamation marks. Common use of the idiom "m or f?", meant to elicit a statement of the listener's gender. Typical extended discourse in ASCIIbonics: "hey wasup ne1 want 2 cyber?" "m or f?" ASCIIbonics is similar to the way B1FF talked, although B1FF used more punctuation (lots more), and used all uppercase, rather than all lowercase. What's more, B1FF was only interested in warez, and so never asked "m or f?". It has been widely observed that some of the purest examples of ASCIIbonics come from non-native speakers of English. The phenomenon of ASCIIbonics predates by several years the use of the word "ASCIIbonics", as the word could only have been coined in or after late 1996, when "Ebonics" was first used in the US media to denote the US English dialects known in the linguistic literature as "Black Vernacular English".
- ascititious — having been added to from something inessential or separate
- ascriptions — Plural form of ascription.
- associating — to connect or bring into relation, as thought, feeling, memory, etc.: Many people associate dark clouds with depression and gloom.
- association — An association is an official group of people who have the same job, aim, or interest.
- associative — Associative thoughts are things that you think of because you see, hear, or think of something that reminds you of those things or which you associate with those things.
- associators — Plural form of associator.
- astrometric — (astronomy) of or relating to astrometry.
- astronautic — Of or pertaining to astronautics.
- atmospheric — Atmospheric is used to describe something which relates to the Earth's atmosphere.
- atomic mass — the mass of an isotope of an element in atomic mass units
- atomtronics — (physics) The design, manufacture and study of analogs of electronics using atoms (especially Bose-Einstein condensates) at low temperature.
- atrociously — extremely or shockingly wicked, cruel, or brutal: an atrocious crime.
- attophysics — the physics of structures and artefacts with dimensions in the attometre range or of devices, such as lasers, capable of producing pulses with a duration measured in attoseconds
- attractions — Plural form of attraction.
- auctioneers — Plural form of auctioneer.
- audaciously — extremely bold or daring; recklessly brave; fearless: an audacious explorer.
- autocracies — Plural form of autocracy.
- autodidacts — Plural form of autodidact.
- autoplastic — Of or pertaining to autoplasty.
- babelicious — (of a woman) sexually very attractive.
- bacciferous — bearing berries
- baccivorous — feeding on berries
- bachelorism — bachelorhood
- backside-to — backend-to.
- backsolving — Present participle of backsolve.
- bacteriosis — any bacterial disease
- bacteroides — any of several rod-shaped, anaerobic bacteria of the genus Bacteroides, occurring in the alimentary and genitourinary tracts of humans and other mammals, certain species of which are pathogenic.
- baculovirus — any of a family of viruses that attack insects and other arthropods, used as biological pesticides
- basic cobol — (language) A subset of COBOL from COBOL-60 standards.
- basidiocarp — the fruiting body of basidiomycetous fungi; the mushroom of agarics
- bellicosity — inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious.
- biblioclasm — a person who mutilates or destroys books.
- biblioclast — One who destroys books, especially the Bible.
- bicephalous — having two heads
- big society — the devolution of political power and social responsibility to local communities as opposed to centralized political power and state control
- biocatalyst — a chemical, esp an enzyme, that initiates or increases the rate of a biochemical reaction
- biocoenosis — a diverse community inhabiting a single biotope
- biodynamics — the branch of biology that deals with the energy production and activities of organisms
- bioethicist — a field of study concerned with the ethics and philosophical implications of certain biological and medical procedures, technologies, and treatments, as organ transplants, genetic engineering, and care of the terminally ill.
- biogenetics — the branch of biology concerned with altering the genomes of living organisms
- biokinetics — the study of movements of or within organisms.
- biologistic — relating to biologism
- biomimetics — the study and development of synthetic systems that mimic the formation, function, or structure of biologically produced substances and materials and biological mechanisms and processes.
- biophysical — the branch of biology that applies the methods of physics to the study of biological structures and processes.
- bioresearch — the investigation of the nature of living organisms; biological research.
- biosocially — from a biosocial point of view
- bisectional — relating to division into two equal parts