11-letter words containing c, o, u, n, s, e
- honeysucker — a bird that feeds on the nectar of flowers.
- honeysuckle — any upright or climbing shrub of the genus Diervilla, especially D. lonicera, cultivated for its fragrant white, yellow, or red tubular flowers.
- horn clause — (logic) A set of atomic literals with at most one positive literal. Usually written L <- L1, ..., Ln or <- L1, ..., Ln where n>=0, "<-" means "is implied by" and comma stands for conjuction ("AND"). If L is false the clause is regarded as a goal. Horn clauses can express a subset of statements of first order logic. The name "Horn Clause" comes from the logician Alfred Horn, who first pointed out the significance of such clauses in 1951, in the article "On sentences which are true of direct unions of algebras", Journal of Symbolic Logic, 16, 14-21. A definite clause is a Horn clause that has exactly one positive literal.
- house finch — a small common finch, Carpodacus mexicanus, originally of the western U.S. and Mexico and now widely distributed: the males have a red forehead, throat, breast, and rump.
- house-clean — to clean the inside of a person's house
- impecunious — having little or no money; penniless; poor.
- in close-up — If you see something in close-up, you see it in great detail in a photograph or piece of film which has been taken very near to the subject.
- incredulous — not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical.
- indeciduous — not deciduous, as leaves.
- infructuose — Not yielding fruit.
- inosculated — Simple past tense and past participle of inosculate.
- inosculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inosculate.
- insouciance — the quality of being insouciant; lack of care or concern; indifference.
- insurrectos — Plural form of insurrecto.
- intercourse — dealings or communication between individuals, groups, countries, etc.
- introducers — Plural form of introducer.
- isoceraunic — representing, having, or indicating equality in the frequency or intensity of thunderstorms: isoceraunic line; isoceraunic map.
- isokeraunic — isoceraunic.
- isoleucines — Plural form of isoleucine.
- keratoconus — a degenerative condition characterized by conical protrusion of the cornea and irregular astigmatism.
- larcenously — In a larcenous manner.
- launch shoe — an attachment to an aircraft from which a missile is launched
- locust bean — carob.
- lucy stoner — a person who advocates the retention of the maiden name by married women. Compare Stone (def 5).
- main course — Nautical. a square mainsail.
- menthaceous — belonging to the Menthaceae, a former name for the plant family Labiatae.
- mini-course — a brief intensive course of study
- minicourses — Plural form of minicourse.
- miscegenous — Of, pertaining to, or being miscegenation; interracial (said primarily of marriages and other sexual or romantic relationships).
- misconstrue — to misunderstand the meaning of; take in a wrong sense; misinterpret.
- most-centum — belonging to or consisting of those branches of the Indo-European family of languages that show distinctive preservation of the Proto-Indo-European labiovelars and that show a historical development of velar articulations, as the sounds (k) or [kh] /x/ (Show IPA) from Proto-Indo-European palatal phonemes. The centum branches are Germanic, Celtic, Italic, Hellenic, Anatolian, and Tocharian.
- musclebound — having enlarged and inelastic muscles, as from excessive exercise.
- necessitous — destitute or impoverished; needy; indigent: to aid a necessitous young mother.
- neuroethics — The ethics of neuroscience and neurotechnology.
- neuroticism — the state of having traits or symptoms characteristic of neurosis.
- non-closure — the act of closing; the state of being closed.
- non-cursive — (of handwriting) in flowing strokes with the letters joined together.
- non-suspect — to believe to be guilty, false, counterfeit, undesirable, defective, bad, etc., with little or no proof: to suspect a person of murder.
- nonconsumer — a person who refrains from using or purchasing certain resources, products, or services
- noncustomer — a person who is not the customer of a particular establishment, or a person who does not buy a product or service
- nonrecourse — (finance) Of or pertaining to a form of financing, typically debt financing, in which the lender's recourse to recovery in the event of default is limited to the collateral asset only.
- nonspecular — that reflects light diffusely and evenly over the hemisphere surrounding the reflective surface; diffuse
- noun clause — a subordinate clause that functions as a noun within a main clause.
- nucleobases — Plural form of nucleobase.
- nucleoplasm — the protoplasm of the nucleus of a cell.
- nucleosomal — Of or pertaining to a nucleosome.
- nucleosomes — Plural form of nucleosome.
- nucleotides — 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.
- obscurement — The act of obscuring, or the state of being obscured.
- obscureness — (of meaning) not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain: an obscure sentence in the contract.