10-letter words containing c, o, u, e, i
- iridaceous — belonging to the Iridaceae family of plants.
- isoleucine — a crystalline amino acid, C 6 H 13 O 2 , occurring in proteins, that is essential to the nutrition of humans and animals. Symbol: I. Abbreviation: Ile;
- joe public — also Joe Bloggs; US = John Q. Public
- jouissance — Physical or intellectual pleasure, delight, or ecstasy.
- lenocinium — tacit encouragement of, or assent to, adultery committed by one's partner
- leucocidin — an exotoxin, produced by bacteria, that destroys leucocytes
- leucomaine — any of a group of toxic amines produced during animal metabolism
- leucopenia — a decrease in the number of white blood cells in the blood.
- leukocytic — Of or pertaining to leukocytes.
- leukopenic — a decrease in the number of white blood cells in the blood.
- licentious — sexually unrestrained; lascivious; libertine; lewd.
- liliaceous — of or like the lily.
- luciferous — bringing or providing light.
- meliaceous — belonging to the Meliaceae, the mahogany family of plants.
- mendacious — telling lies, especially habitually; dishonest; lying; untruthful: a mendacious person.
- mesokurtic — (of a frequency distribution or its graphical representation) having the same kurtosis as the normal distribution.
- meticulous — taking or showing extreme care about minute details; precise; thorough: a meticulous craftsman; meticulous personal appearance.
- miccosukee — a member of an American Indian people, formerly part of the Creek Confederacy and surviving chiefly as one of the two branches of the Muskogean family represented among the Florida Seminoles.
- microbuses — Plural form of microbus.
- microcurie — a unit of radioactivity, equal to one millionth of a curie; 3.70 × 10 4 disintegrations per second. Symbol: μCi, μc.
- microquake — Microearthquake.
- microtubes — Plural form of microtube.
- mid-course — the middle of a course.
- minicourse — a short, intensive course of study, usually a few weeks long.
- miscompute — To compute erroneously.
- miscounsel — to advise wrongly.
- miscounted — Simple past tense and past participle of miscount.
- misfocused — a central point, as of attraction, attention, or activity: The need to prevent a nuclear war became the focus of all diplomatic efforts.
- mocambique — Mozambique.
- monoecious — Biology. having both male and female organs in the same individual; hermaphroditic.
- mousepiece — a cut of meat near the shoulder of a sheep or cow that is rich in muscle tissue
- mouthpiece — a piece placed at or forming the mouth, as of a receptacle or tube.
- mucedinous — of or resembling mold or mildew.
- muciferous — secreting or containing mucus.
- muscovites — Plural form of muscovite.
- neurogenic — originating in a nerve or nerve tissue.
- neurologic — Relating to neurology or the nervous system.
- neurolytic — Pathology. disintegration of nerve tissue. exhaustion of a nerve by excess stimulation.
- neurotoxic — poisonous to nerve tissue, as to the brain or spinal cord.
- noninduced — to lead or move by persuasion or influence, as to some action or state of mind: to induce a person to buy a raffle ticket.
- novaculite — a very hard sedimentary rock, similar to chert, composed essentially of microcrystalline quartz.
- nuciferous — (of a tree or bush) bearing nuts.
- nucleation — having a nucleus.
- nucleonics — the branch of science that deals with nuclear phenomena, as radioactivity, fission, or fusion, especially practical applications, as in industrial engineering.
- nucleoside — any of the class of compounds derived by the hydrolysis of nucleic acids or nucleotides, consisting typically of deoxyribose or ribose combined with adenine, guanine, cytosine, uracil, or thymine.
- nucleotide — 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.
- occlusives — Plural form of occlusive.
- occupative — relating to work or profession
- occupiable — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
- oceanarium — a large saltwater aquarium for the display and observation of fish and other marine life.