12-letter words containing c, o, n, e, y
- homocysteine — An amino acid that occurs in the body as an intermediate in the metabolism of methionine and cysteine.
- honey bucket — a container for excrement, as in an outdoor toilet.
- honey locust — a thorny North American tree, Gleditsia triacanthos, of the legume family, having small, compound leaves and pods with a sweet pulp.
- honeycombing — Present participle of honeycomb.
- honeycreeper — any of several small, usually brightly colored birds, related to the tanagers and wood warblers, of tropical and semitropical America.
- honeysuckles — Plural form of honeysuckle.
- human comedy — French La Comédie Humaine. a collected edition of tales and novels in 17 volumes (1842–48) by Honoré de Balzac.
- hydnocarpate — a salt or ester of hydnocarpic acid.
- hydrocyclone — A hydrocyclone is a vessel used for separating two liquids with different densities, by the circular movement of fluid.
- hydrokinetic — pertaining to the motion of liquids.
- hydrozincite — a hydrous zinc carbonate, Zn 5 (CO 3) 2 (OH) 6 , an important ore of zinc in some localities.
- hyperfiction — nonlinear fiction created in electronic hypertext form and containing multiple plot developments, endings, etc., that can be evoked interactively.
- hypersomniac — a tendency to sleep excessively.
- hysterogenic — inducing hysteria.
- in your face — involving confrontation; defiant; provocative.
- in-your-face — involving confrontation; defiant; provocative.
- incestuously — involving incest.
- inchoatively — in an inchoative or rudimentary fashion; initially
- incoherently — without logical or meaningful connection; disjointed; rambling: an incoherent sentence.
- incompetency — the quality or condition of being incompetent; lack of ability.
- incompletely — not complete; lacking some part.
- incongruency — Incongruence.
- incontinency — unable to restrain natural discharges or evacuations of urine or feces.
- incorporeity — the quality of being incorporeal; disembodied existence or entity; incorporeality.
- indecorously — not decorous; violating generally accepted standards of good taste or propriety; unseemly.
- infectiously — communicable by infection, as from one person to another or from one part of the body to another: infectious diseases.
- intercessory — having the function of interceding: an intercessory prayer.
- intercompany — a number of individuals assembled or associated together; group of people.
- intercountry — a state or nation: What European countries have you visited?
- interdictory — of, relating to, or noting interdiction.
- interjectory — characterized by interjection; interjectional.
- intersociety — intersocietal
- isoenzymatic — isoenzymic
- karyokinetic — Of or pertaining to karyokinesis.
- keep company — a number of individuals assembled or associated together; group of people.
- keratinocyte — An epidermal cell that produces keratin.
- kitty-corner — diagonal.
- kona cyclone — a slow-moving cyclone occuring during the winter over the subtropical Pacific Ocean.
- lanceolately — in a lanceolate way or form
- laryngectomy — excision of part or all of the larynx.
- laryngoscope — a rigid or flexible endoscope passed through the mouth and equipped with a source of light and magnification, for examining and performing local diagnostic and surgical procedures on the larynx.
- leonine city — a district of Rome on the right bank of the Tiber fortified by Pope Leo IV
- leper colony — a place where people who have leprosy live in quarantine
- licentiously — In a licentious manner, rowdily, overwhelmed by passion and without control of appetites (especially sexual appetites).
- lycanthropes — Plural form of lycanthrope.
- lysogenicity — the quality or condition of being lysogenic
- lysolecithin — any compound of lecithin produced by the removal of one of the fatty acid groups by hydrolysis
- macroeconomy — A large-scale economic system.
- mendaciously — In a lying or deceitful manner.
- meniscectomy — the surgical excision of a meniscus, as of the knee joint.