11-letter words containing c, o, n, t, u, s
- knockabouts — Plural form of knockabout.
- knockwursts — Plural form of knockwurst.
- 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).
- masculation — Making masculine; giving male characteristics.
- menthaceous — belonging to the Menthaceae, a former name for the plant family Labiatae.
- misconstrue — to misunderstand the meaning of; take in a wrong sense; misinterpret.
- miscounting — Present participle of miscount.
- misfunction — malfunction.
- monticolous — existing or having a habitat in or on mountains
- most-centum — belonging to or consisting of those branches of the Indo-European family of languages that show distinctive preservation of the Proto-Indo-European labiovelars and that show a historical development of velar articulations, as the sounds (k) or [kh] /x/ (Show IPA) from Proto-Indo-European palatal phonemes. The centum branches are Germanic, Celtic, Italic, Hellenic, Anatolian, and Tocharian.
- musculation — (anatomy) The muscular system of an animal, or of any of its parts.
- muttonchops — The whiskers on a man's cheek when shaped like a meat chop, narrow at the top and broad and rounded at the bottom.
- necessitous — destitute or impoverished; needy; indigent: to aid a necessitous young mother.
- neuroethics — The ethics of neuroscience and neurotechnology.
- neuroticism — the state of having traits or symptoms characteristic of neurosis.
- nicostratus — a son of Menelaus and Helen who, with his illegitimate brother Megapenthes, expelled Helen from Sparta when Menelaus died.
- noctilucous — (obsolete) Shining in the night; luminescent.
- non-suspect — to believe to be guilty, false, counterfeit, undesirable, defective, bad, etc., with little or no proof: to suspect a person of murder.
- noncustomer — a person who is not the customer of a particular establishment, or a person who does not buy a product or service
- nondiscount — not subject to a discount
- nondisjunct — Not disjunct.
- not so much — less
- nucleotides — any of a group of molecules that, when linked together, form the building blocks of DNA or RNA: composed of a phosphate group, the bases adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine, and a pentose sugar, in RNA the thymine base being replaced by uracil.
- nun's cloth — a thin soft plain-weave silk or worsted fabric used for veils, dresses, etc
- nyctanthous — (of plants) flowering at night
- obfuscating — Present participle of obfuscate.
- obfuscation — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- obscuration — the act of obscuring.
- obscurement — The act of obscuring, or the state of being obscured.
- obstructing — Present participle of obstruct.
- obstruction — something that obstructs, blocks, or closes up with an obstacle or obstacles; obstacle or hindrance: obstructions to navigation.
- occupations — Plural form of occupation.
- octandrious — having eight stamens.
- on the cusp — If you say that someone or something is on the cusp, you mean they are between two states, or are about to be in a particular state.
- out of sync — out of synchronization (with)
- outbalances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outbalance.
- outclassing — Present participle of outclass.
- outcrossing — Present participle of outcross.
- outdistance — to leave behind, as in running; outstrip: The winning horse outdistanced the second-place winner by five lengths.
- outsourcing — (of a company or organization) to purchase (goods) or subcontract (services) from an outside supplier or source.
- persecution — the act of persecuting.
- postscenium — a wing on either side of the stage of an ancient Greek or Roman theatre where props could be stored and actors could prepare; a parascenium
- pound scots — pound2 (def 7).
- preconquest — of or relating to the time before the conquest of one people, region, or country by another.
- procrustean — pertaining to or suggestive of Procrustes.
- productions — the act of producing; creation; manufacture.
- prosecuting — carrying out a prosecution
- prosecution — Law. the institution and carrying on of legal proceedings against a person. the body of officials by whom such proceedings are instituted and carried on.