11-letter words containing c, o, n, t, r, e
- nonreactive — tending to react.
- nonsecretor — a person of blood group A, B, or AB, whose saliva does not contain the antigens of their blood group
- nonvertical — being in a position or direction perpendicular to the plane of the horizon; upright; plumb.
- nornicotine — an alkaloid, C 9 H 1 2 N 2 , extracted from tobacco and related to nicotine but having a lower toxicity: used as an agricultural and horticultural insecticide.
- northcliffe — Viscount, Alfred Charles William Harmsworth.
- not cricket — If you say that someone's behaviour is not cricket, you mean that they have not behaved fairly.
- noticeboard — Alternative spelling of notice board.
- obscurement — The act of obscuring, or the state of being obscured.
- obsecration — to entreat solemnly; beseech; supplicate.
- oceanfronts — Plural form of oceanfront.
- octahedrons — Plural form of octahedron.
- on the rack — If you say that someone is on the rack, you mean that they are suffering either physically or mentally.
- oncoprotein — (genetics, oncology, protein) A protein that is coded for by an oncogene.
- open secret — something supposedly secret but actually known quite generally.
- optic nerve — either one of the second pair of cranial nerves, consisting of sensory fibers that conduct impulses from the retina to the brain.
- orchestrina — (musical instruments) orchestrion.
- orchestrion — a mechanical musical instrument, resembling a barrel organ but more elaborate, for producing the effect of an orchestra.
- oregon city — a town in NW Oregon, on the Willamette River.
- orthocenter — the point of intersection of the three altitudes of a triangle.
- orthocentre — Point at which the perpendiculars from the angles of a triangle intersect.
- orthogenics — the treatment of mentally and emotionally disturbed children
- orthopnoeic — difficult or painful breathing except in an erect sitting or standing position.
- outreaching — Present participle of outreach.
- overcasting — Meteorology. the condition of the sky when more than 95 percent covered by clouds.
- overcaution — excessive caution
- overcoating — a coat worn over the ordinary indoor clothing, as in cold weather.
- overcontrol — to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds. That zone is controlled by enemy troops.
- overcurrent — a current of a magnitude that is greater than a limiting value, as the value at which a fuse melts.
- overcutting — excessive cutting
- panchreston — a proposed explanation intended to address a complex problem by trying to account for all possible contingencies but typically proving to be too broadly conceived and therefore oversimplified to be of any practical use.
- pedantocrat — a pedantic ruler
- penteconter — (in ancient Greece) a commander of fifty men
- perceptions — the act or faculty of perceiving, or apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding.
- percolation — the act or state of percolating or of being percolated.
- perfunctory — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
- peritonitic — inflammation of the peritoneum, often accompanied by pain and tenderness in the abdomen, vomiting, constipation, and moderate fever.
- perlocution — (of a speech act) producing an effect upon the listener, as in persuading, frightening, amusing, or causing the listener to act.
- persecution — the act of persecuting.
- pitchperson — a pitchman or pitchwoman
- plecopteran — Also, plecopterous. belonging or pertaining to the insect order Plecoptera, comprising the stoneflies.
- pococurante — a careless or indifferent person.
- polycentric — having many centers, especially of power or importance: the polycentric world of banking.
- pop concert — a concert of popular and light classical music played by a symphony orchestra.
- port neches — a town in SE Texas.
- postconcert — occurring after a concert
- pre-control — to hold in check; curb: to control a horse; to control one's emotions.
- preconquest — of or relating to the time before the conquest of one people, region, or country by another.
- precontract — a preexisting contract that legally prevents a person from making another contract of the same nature.
- predication — to proclaim; declare; affirm; assert.
- preelection — a choice or selection made beforehand.