11-letter words containing c, o, n, s, u
- honeysucker — a bird that feeds on the nectar of flowers.
- honeysuckle — any upright or climbing shrub of the genus Diervilla, especially D. lonicera, cultivated for its fragrant white, yellow, or red tubular flowers.
- horn clause — (logic) A set of atomic literals with at most one positive literal. Usually written L <- L1, ..., Ln or <- L1, ..., Ln where n>=0, "<-" means "is implied by" and comma stands for conjuction ("AND"). If L is false the clause is regarded as a goal. Horn clauses can express a subset of statements of first order logic. The name "Horn Clause" comes from the logician Alfred Horn, who first pointed out the significance of such clauses in 1951, in the article "On sentences which are true of direct unions of algebras", Journal of Symbolic Logic, 16, 14-21. A definite clause is a Horn clause that has exactly one positive literal.
- house finch — a small common finch, Carpodacus mexicanus, originally of the western U.S. and Mexico and now widely distributed: the males have a red forehead, throat, breast, and rump.
- house-clean — to clean the inside of a person's house
- hsuan chiao — Taoism (def 2).
- icosandrous — belonging to the Icosandria, a class of plants
- impecunious — having little or no money; penniless; poor.
- in close-up — If you see something in close-up, you see it in great detail in a photograph or piece of film which has been taken very near to the subject.
- incapacious — Not capacious; narrow, small, weak, or foolish.
- incommodius — Misspelling of incommodious.
- incongruous — out of keeping or place; inappropriate; unbecoming: an incongruous effect; incongruous behavior.
- inconscious — (obsolete) unconscious.
- incredulous — not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical.
- incubations — Plural form of incubation.
- incuriosity — The quality or state of lacking curiosity.
- incuriously — In an incurious manner.
- indeciduous — not deciduous, as leaves.
- infructuose — Not yielding fruit.
- infructuous — (Pakistan and India only; of a project etc) not fruitful.
- injudicious — not judicious; showing lack of judgment; unwise; imprudent; indiscreet: an injudicious decision.
- injunctions — Plural form of injunction.
- innocuously — not harmful or injurious; harmless: an innocuous home remedy.
- inofficious — being inconsistent with moral duty and natural affection.
- inosculated — Simple past tense and past participle of inosculate.
- inosculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inosculate.
- insomuch as — to such an extent or degree; so (usually followed by that).
- insouciance — the quality of being insouciant; lack of care or concern; indifference.
- instruction — machine instruction
- instructors — Plural form of instructor.
- insurrectos — Plural form of insurrecto.
- intercourse — dealings or communication between individuals, groups, countries, etc.
- introducers — Plural form of introducer.
- isoceraunic — representing, having, or indicating equality in the frequency or intensity of thunderstorms: isoceraunic line; isoceraunic map.
- isochronous — isochronal.
- isokeraunic — isoceraunic.
- isoleucines — Plural form of isoleucine.
- janus cloth — a worsted fabric, each side of which has a different color.
- juan carlos — King (Juan Carlos Alfonso Victor María de Borbón y Borbón) born 1938, Spanish monarch, born in Italy: king since 1975.
- keratoconus — a degenerative condition characterized by conical protrusion of the cornea and irregular astigmatism.
- knockabouts — Plural form of knockabout.
- knockwursts — Plural form of knockwurst.
- larcenously — In a larcenous manner.
- launch shoe — an attachment to an aircraft from which a missile is launched
- lignicolous — growing or living on or in wood
- liposuction — the surgical withdrawal of excess fat from local areas under the skin by means of a small incision and vacuum suctioning.
- locust bean — carob.
- lucy stoner — a person who advocates the retention of the maiden name by married women. Compare Stone (def 5).
- lunch-hooks — Usually, lunchhooks. hands.
- main course — Nautical. a square mainsail.