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11-letter words containing c, o, s, i

  • cytoplasmic — the cell substance between the cell membrane and the nucleus, containing the cytosol, organelles, cytoskeleton, and various particles.
  • cytostatics — Plural form of cytostatic.
  • cytotropism — cytotropic tendency or behavior.
  • deaccession — to sell (a work of art) from a museum's or gallery's collections, especially with a view to acquiring funds for the purchase of other works.
  • deciduously — shedding the leaves annually, as certain trees and shrubs.
  • decimations — Plural form of decimation.
  • decisioning — the act or process of deciding; determination, as of a question or doubt, by making a judgment: They must make a decision between these two contestants.
  • declensions — Plural form of declension.
  • declivitous — fairly steep
  • decolonised — Simple past tense and past participle of decolonise.
  • decolonizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decolonize.
  • decompilers — Plural form of decompiler.
  • decomposing — Present participle of decompose.
  • decomposite — a composite element that is itself composed of other elements
  • decorations — Plural form of decoration.
  • decussation — a decussating or being decussated
  • dedications — Plural form of dedication.
  • deflections — Plural form of deflection.
  • 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
  • deliciously — In a delicious manner.
  • delocalised — (British) alternative spelling of delocalized.
  • democracies — Plural form of democracy.
  • democratise — To make democratic.
  • democratism — The principles or spirit of a democracy.
  • demoniacism — the state or practice of being possessed by a demon
  • derecognise — Alternative spelling of derecognize.
  • descamisado — an extreme liberal of the Spanish revolution 1820–23.
  • deschooling — to abolish or phase out traditional schools from, so as to replace them with alternative methods and forms of education.
  • descloizite — a mineral, lead zinc vanadate.
  • description — You can say that something is beyond description, or that it defies description, to emphasize that it is very unusual, impressive, terrible, or extreme.
  • descriptors — Plural form of descriptor.
  • desecration — a desecrating or being desecrated
  • desiccation — Desiccation is the process of becoming completely dried out.
  • desk copier — a photocopier compact enough to fit on a desk, table, or similar surface.
  • desmodromic — (of mechanisms, almost exclusively of valves) that are controlled in both directions of their movement. A desmodromic valve is one which is actively both opened and closed by a mechanism rather than by a spring
  • desocialize — to remove from a customary social environment: Imprisonment desocializes the inmates.
  • dessication — Misspelling of desiccation.
  • destruction — Destruction is the act of destroying something, or the state of being destroyed.
  • detectorist — a person whose hobby is using a metal detector
  • detractions — Plural form of detraction.
  • diachronism — the passage of a geological formation across time planes, as occurs when a marine sediment laid down by an advancing sea is noticeably younger in the direction of advancement
  • diacoustics — the branch of physics that deals with refracted sound
  • diagnostics — the art or practice of diagnosis, esp of diseases
  • dialogistic — a speaker in a dialogue.
  • diascordium — a herbal medicine, no longer in use, containing among other ingredients the herb scordium and opium
  • diastrophic — Also called tectonism. the action of the forces that cause the earth's crust to be deformed, producing continents, mountains, changes of level, etc.
  • diatonicism — the use of diatonic harmony; composition in a diatonic idiom.
  • dicephalous — having two heads
  • dichogamous — having the stamens and pistils maturing at different times, thereby preventing self-pollination, as a monoclinous flower (opposed to homogamous).
  • dichotomies — Botany. a mode of branching by constant forking, as in some stems, in veins of leaves, etc.
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