11-letter words containing c, o, s, i
- oscillators — Plural form of oscillator.
- oscillatory — characterized by or involving oscillation.
- oscillogram — the record produced by the action of an oscillograph or oscilloscope.
- osmotically — Physical Chemistry, Cell Biology. the tendency of a fluid, usually water, to pass through a semipermeable membrane into a solution where the solvent concentration is higher, thus equalizing the concentrations of materials on either side of the membrane. the diffusion of fluids through membranes or porous partitions. Compare endosmosis, exosmosis.
- osteoclasis — Physiology. the breaking down or absorption of osseous tissue.
- osteodermic — of or like an osteoderm
- osteopathic — Of or pertaining to osteopathy or osteopathic medicine.
- osteophytic — a small osseous excrescence or outgrowth on bone.
- ostracising — Present participle of ostracise.
- ostracizing — Simple past tense and past participle of ostracize.
- ostrich egg — the large egg produced by a fast-running flightless African bird, Struthio camelus, that is the largest living bird, with stout two-toed feet and dark feathers, except on the naked head, neck, and legs: order Struthioniformes
- ostrichlike — a large, two-toed, swift-footed flightless bird, Struthio camelus, indigenous to Africa and Arabia, domesticated for its plumage: the largest of living birds.
- otoacoustic — Of or pertaining to sounds generated by the inner ear.
- 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.
- overcasting — Meteorology. the condition of the sky when more than 95 percent covered by clouds.
- overcurious — Excessively curious.
- overexcites — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overexcite.
- overprecise — excessively precise
- overservice — to give more service than required to (something)
- pantisocrat — someone who believes, or takes part, in pantisocracy
- pantoscopic — showing a wide-angled view
- paracrostic — a poem in which the initial letters of each line replicate the first line
- pediculosis — the state of being infested with lice.
- pediococcus — any of several spherical, facultatively anaerobic bacteria of the genus Pediococcus, producing acid and clouding in beer and wort.
- pedodontics — the branch of dentistry dealing with the care and treatment of children's teeth.
- perceptions — the act or faculty of perceiving, or apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding.
- perichylous — (of a plant) having water-storing tissue outside the green tissue
- persecution — the act of persecuting.
- perspicuous — clearly expressed or presented; lucid.
- philoctetes — Classical Mythology. a noted archer and squire of Hercules. Bitten by a snake and abandoned on an island because of his festering wound, he was at length brought by the Greeks to Troy, where he recovered and later killed Paris.
- philosophic — of or relating to philosophy: philosophical studies.
- phonematics — phonemics.
- phonetastic — (communications) A CTI product from Callware. Phonetastic employs if-then rules and customer records to tell those receiving calls who is calling (based on ANI and DNIS) and to determine how the call should be routed, e.g. to a certain sales representative or to the general sales department; receive high-priority treatment; receive a fax-back, etc.
- phoneticism — a phonetic scheme of writing
- phoniatrics — the study and treatment of voice disorders.
- photomosaic — mosaic (def 4).
- photostatic — a camera for making facsimile copies of documents, drawings, etc., in the form of paper negatives on which the positions of lines, objects, etc., in the originals are maintained.
- phycologist — the branch of botany dealing with algae.
- physiologic — of or relating to physiology.
- piano music — printed music intended to be played on the piano
- piece goods — goods, esp fabrics, made in standard widths and lengths
- pinocytoses — (of a cell) to take within by means of pinocytosis.
- pinocytosis — the transport of fluid into a cell by means of local infoldings by the cell membrane so that a tiny vesicle or sac forms around each droplet, which is then taken into the interior of the cytoplasm.
- piperaceous — belonging to the Piperacae, the pepper family of plants.
- piscatology — the art or science of fishing.
- piscatorial — of or relating to fishermen or fishing: a piscatory treaty.
- piscicolous — (of an organism) living on or in fishes