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

  • autocracies — Plural form of autocracy.
  • autodidacts — Plural form of autodidact.
  • autodynamic — Supplying its own power.
  • autofocuses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of autofocus.
  • autogenetic — self-generated.
  • autographic — of, for, or like an autograph or autographs
  • autokinetic — automatically self-moving
  • autological — (grammar) Of a phrase (especially an adjective), possessing the property it describes.
  • automagical — (of a usually complicated technical or computer process) done, operating, or happening in a way that is hidden from or not understood by the user, and in that sense, apparently “magical”: I just downloaded an automagical update to my word processing software that somehow fixed the problems.
  • automatical — Archaic form of automatic.
  • automorphic — shaped and designed after oneself
  • autonomical — autonomous.
  • autoplastic — Of or pertaining to autoplasty.
  • autopotamic — (of an organism) living or growing only in flowing freshwater streams.
  • autotrophic — (of organisms such as green plants) capable of manufacturing complex organic nutritive compounds from simple inorganic sources such as carbon dioxide, water, and nitrates, using energy from the sun
  • auxochromic — any radical or group of atoms that intensifies the color of a substance.
  • auxotrophic — designating or of a mutant organism requiring more nutritional substances than its prototrophic parent because it has lost the ability to make a certain enzyme
  • babelicious — (of a woman) sexually very attractive.
  • bacciferous — bearing berries
  • baccivorous — feeding on berries
  • back out of — to withdraw from (an enterprise)
  • backcountry — an area far from cities and towns that is thinly populated and largely undeveloped; hinterland
  • backgrounds — Plural form of background.
  • baconburger — a hamburger topped with strips of cooked bacon.
  • baculovirus — any of a family of viruses that attack insects and other arthropods, used as biological pesticides
  • balance out — If two or more opposite things balance out or if you balance them out, they become equal in amount, value, or effect.
  • bannockburn — a village in central Scotland, south of Stirling: nearby is the site of a victory (1314) of the Scots, led by Robert the Bruce, over the English. Pop: 7396 (2001)
  • barracoutas — Plural form of barracouta.
  • baudot code — (communications)   (For etymology, see baud) A character set predating EBCDIC and used originally and primarily on paper tape. Use of Baudot reportedly survives in TDDs and some HAM radio applications. In Baudot, characters are expressed using five bits. Baudot uses two code sub-sets, the "letter set" (LTRS), and the "figure set" (FIGS). The FIGS character (11011) signals that the following code is to be interpreted as being in the FIGS set, until this is reset by the LTRS (11111) character. binary hex LTRS FIGS -------------------------- 00011 03 A - 11001 19 B ? 01110 0E C : 01001 09 D $ 00001 01 E 3 01101 0D F ! 11010 1A G & 10100 14 H # 00110 06 I 8 01011 0B J BELL 01111 0F K ( 10010 12 L ) 11100 1C M . 01100 0C N , 11000 18 O 9 10110 16 P 0 10111 17 Q 1 01010 0A R 4 00101 05 S ' 10000 10 T 5 00111 07 U 7 11110 1E V ; 10011 13 W 2 11101 1D X / 10101 15 Y 6 10001 11 Z " 01000 08 CR CR 00010 02 LF LF 00100 04 SP SP 11111 1F LTRS LTRS 11011 1B FIGS FIGS 00000 00 [..unused..] Where CR is carriage return, LF is linefeed, BELL is the bell, SP is space, and STOP is the stop character. Note: these bit values are often shown in inverse order, depending (presumably) which side of the paper tape you were looking at. Local implementations of Baudot may differ in the use of #, STOP, BELL, and '.
  • beach house — a holiday house overlooking a beach
  • beancounter — Alternative spelling of bean counter.
  • betulaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Betulaceae, a family of mostly N temperate catkin-bearing trees and shrubs such as birch and alder, some species of which reach the northern limits of tree growth
  • bicephalous — having two heads
  • bifurcation — the act or fact of bifurcating
  • bimolecular — (of a chemical complex, collision, etc) having or involving two molecules
  • binocularly — relating to the use of two eyes at once
  • bivouacking — a military encampment made with tents or improvised shelters, usually without shelter or protection from enemy fire.
  • black house — a type of thatched house, usually made of turf, formerly found in the highlands and islands of Scotland
  • black humor — a form of humor that regards human suffering as absurd rather than pitiable, or that considers human existence as ironic and pointless but somehow comic.
  • blacktongue — canine pellagra.
  • blue collar — of or relating to wage-earning workers who wear work clothes or other specialized clothing on the job, as mechanics, longshoremen, and miners. Compare white-collar.
  • blue-collar — Blue-collar workers work in industry, doing physical work, rather than in offices.
  • bodaciously — in a bodacious manner
  • bombay duck — a teleost fish, Harpodon nehereus, that resembles and is related to the lizard fishes: family Harpodontidae. It is eaten dried with curry dishes as a savoury
  • bounce back — If you bounce back after a bad experience, you return very quickly to your previous level of success, enthusiasm, or activity.
  • bounce game — (esp in soccer) a non-competitive game played as part of training
  • bournebasic — A BASIC interpreter. comp.sources.misc archives volume 1.
  • brachiosaur — any of a genus (Brachiosaurus) of huge Jurassic sauropods having longer forelegs than hind legs and nostrils high on the forehead
  • brachyurous — shorttailed, as a crab (opposed to macrurous).
  • bromouracil — a brominated derivative of uracil with antimetabolite properties
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