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11-letter words containing c, o, t, u

  • sub-society — an organized group of persons associated together for religious, benevolent, cultural, scientific, political, patriotic, or other purposes.
  • subcategory — a subordinate category or a division of a category.
  • subcontract — a contract by which one agrees to render services or to provide materials necessary for the performance of another contract.
  • subcontrary — one of two propositions that can both be true but cannot both be false.
  • subcortical — situated beneath the cortex.
  • subdirector — an assistant or secondary director
  • subfraction — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
  • subjunction — an act of subjoining.
  • substractor — a person who subtracts or takes away
  • subtraction — an act or instance of subtracting.
  • subtropical — bordering on the tropics; nearly tropical.
  • sucket fork — a utensil for sweetmeats of the 16th, 17th, and early 18th centuries, having fork tines at one end and a spoon bowl at the other end of a common stem.
  • suction cup — a cup-shaped object of rubber, glass, plastic, etc., which, by producing a partial vacuum, can be made to adhere to or draw something to a surface.
  • suffocation — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
  • sugarcoated — to cover with sugar: to sugarcoat a pill.
  • superoctave — an organ stop two octaves above the standard pitch
  • support act — a band or entertainer not topping the bill
  • supracostal — above the rib
  • surf scoter — a large, North American scoter, Melanitta perspicillata, the adult male of which is black with two white patches on the head.
  • suscitation — the act of suscitating
  • taurocholic — of or derived from taurocholic acid.
  • tautochrone — a curve upon which a moving object will reach a certain point at the same time through gravity from whichever point it starts
  • tautometric — having the same metre or arrangement of syllables
  • tautophonic — having or repeating the same sound
  • telecommute — to engage in telecommuting.
  • telescopium — an inconspicuous constellation in the S hemisphere, close to Sagittarius and Ara
  • tenaciously — holding fast; characterized by keeping a firm hold (often followed by of): a tenacious grip on my arm; tenacious of old habits.
  • teotihuacan — the ruins of an ancient Mesoamerican city in central Mexico, near Mexico City, that flourished a.d. c200–c750 and is the site of the pyramids of the Sun and Moon and of many temples, palaces, and dwellings.
  • terricolous — living on or in the ground.
  • tetracoccus — a spherical bacterium occurring in square groups of four.
  • the commune — the revolutionary government of Paris from 1792 to 1794
  • the council — the local governing authority of a town, county, etc
  • the country — the outlying area or area furthest from the finish of a sports ground or racecourse
  • the tussock — country where tussock grass grows
  • thermoduric — (of certain microorganisms) able to survive high temperatures, as during pasteurization.
  • thoughtcast — a mode of thought
  • tocqueville — Alexis Charles Henri Maurice Clérel de [a-lek-see sharl ahn-ree maw-rees kley-rel duh] /a lɛkˈsi ˈʃarl ɑ̃ˈri mɔˈris kleɪˈrɛl də/ (Show IPA), 1805–59, French statesman and author.
  • toe-curling — If you describe something as toe-curling, you mean that it makes you feel very embarrassed.
  • toluic acid — any of four isomeric acids having the formula CH 3 C 6 H 4 COOH: derivatives of toluene.
  • tonal music — music that uses the diatonic system
  • tone colour — the quality of a musical sound that is conditioned or distinguished by the upper partials or overtones present in it
  • top-up card — a card bought by a mobile phone user entitling him or her to a stipulated amount of credit for future calls
  • touch judge — one of the two linesmen in rugby
  • touch paper — paper saturated with potassium nitrate to make it burn slowly, used for igniting explosives and fireworks.
  • touch plate — a pewter plate belonging to a guild of pewterers and bearing samples of the touchmarks of all pewterers belonging to the guild.
  • touch rugby — a limited-contact version of rugby in which players seek to evade being touched (rather than tackled) while in possession of the ball
  • touch-ready — (of software) ready to work on touch-screen computers and devices
  • touchscreen — a touch-sensitive display screen on a computer or other electronic device: touching different portions of the screen with a finger or stylus will cause the device to take actions determined by a computer program.
  • tough pitch — the state of refined copper when it is soft, malleable, and flexible: tough pitch copper.
  • touring car — an open automobile designed for five or more passengers.
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