11-letter words containing c, o, n, s, u
- cuspidation — decoration using cusps
- customizing — to modify or build according to individual or personal specifications or preference: to customize an automobile.
- cut corners — to do something in the easiest and shortest way, esp at the expense of high standards
- cutaneously — In a cutaneous way.
- cuts no ice — If you say that something cuts no ice with you, you mean that you are not impressed or influenced by it.
- cuttlebones — Plural form of cuttlebone.
- cymophanous — lustrous; brilliant
- cystogenous — forming or secreting cysts
- dawn chorus — The dawn chorus is the singing of birds at dawn.
- decompounds — Plural form of decompound.
- deconstruct — In philosophy and literary criticism, to deconstruct an idea or text means to show the contradictions in its meaning, and to show how it does not fully explain what it claims to explain.
- decussation — a decussating or being decussated
- deinonychus — a genus of carnivorous dinosaur which existed in the early Cretaceous period, notable for the unusually large curved claws on the second toe of its feet
- destruction — Destruction is the act of destroying something, or the state of being destroyed.
- discontinue — to put an end to; stop; terminate: to discontinue nuclear testing.
- discounters — Plural form of discounter.
- discounting — Present participle of discount.
- discoursing — communication of thought by words; talk; conversation: earnest and intelligent discourse.
- discussions — Plural form of discussion.
- disfunction — dysfunction.
- disjunction — the act of disjoining or the state of being disjoined: a disjunction between thought and action.
- documenters — Plural form of documenter.
- duns scotus — John ("Doctor Subtilis") 1265?–1308, Scottish scholastic theologian.
- dysfunction — Medicine/Medical. malfunctioning, as of an organ or structure of the body.
- ecoconsumer — A consumer who makes purchasing decisions partly or largely on the basis of ecological issues.
- emunctories — Plural form of emunctory.
- endochylous — having water-storing cells
- enunciators — Plural form of enunciator.
- eructations — Plural form of eructation.
- escutcheons — Plural form of escutcheon.
- evacuations — Plural form of evacuation.
- exonuclease — An enzyme that removes successive nucleotides from the end of a polynucleotide molecule.
- facinerious — (in the works of Shakespeare) extremely wicked
- farinaceous — consisting or made of flour or meal, as food.
- flucytosine — a synthetic whitish crystalline powder, C 4 H 4 FN 3 O, with antifungal activity, used in the treatment of systemic and eye fungal infections caused by susceptible strains of Candida or Cryptococcus.
- fluorescein — an orange-red, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 20 H 12 O 5 , that in alkaline solutions produces an orange color and an intense green fluorescence: used to trace subterranean waters and in dyes.
- fluorescent — possessing the property of fluorescence; exhibiting fluorescence.
- fluorescing — Present participle of fluoresce.
- fluticasone — (organic compound) A synthetic corticosteroid whose furoate and propionate forms are used as topical anti-inflammatories.
- frontcourts — Plural form of frontcourt.
- full cousin — cousin (def 1).
- functionals — Plural form of functional.
- funduscopic — Relating to funduscopy.
- furunculous — Furuncular.
- genius loci — the guardian spirit of a place.
- glucokinase — an enzyme, found in all living systems, that serves to catalyze the phosphorylation of gluconic acid.
- glucosamine — an aminosugar occurring in many polysaccharides of vertebrate tissue and also as the major component of chitin.
- glycogenous — of or relating to the formation of sugar in the liver.
- grouchiness — The characteristic or quality of being grouchy.
- honeylocust — any of a genus (Gleditsia) of trees of the caesalpinia family, esp. a North American species (G. triacanthos) usually having strong, thorny branches, featherlike foliage, and large, twisted pods containing beanlike seeds and a sweet pulp