11-letter words containing c, o, u, r, s
- eco-tourism — Eco-tourism is the business of providing holidays and related services which are not harmful to the environment of the area.
- ecoconsumer — A consumer who makes purchasing decisions partly or largely on the basis of ecological issues.
- elucidators — Plural form of elucidator.
- emasculator — One who, or that which, emasculates.
- embouchures — Plural form of embouchure.
- emunctories — Plural form of emunctory.
- enunciators — Plural form of enunciator.
- eructations — Plural form of eructation.
- escarmouche — a skirmish
- escort duty — a military duty in which one or more servicemen accompany a person, group of people, or vehicle, for protection, guidance, restraint, or as a mark of honour
- eurosceptic — Alternative form of Eurosceptic.
- euryoecious — (of an organism) able to live under variable conditions
- facinerious — (in the works of Shakespeare) extremely wicked
- farinaceous — consisting or made of flour or meal, as food.
- ferociously — savagely fierce, as a wild beast, person, action, or aspect; violently cruel: a ferocious beating.
- fish course — A fish course is a part of a meal in which fish is served, usually before the entrée.
- fluorescein — an orange-red, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 20 H 12 O 5 , that in alkaline solutions produces an orange color and an intense green fluorescence: used to trace subterranean waters and in dyes.
- fluorescent — possessing the property of fluorescence; exhibiting fluorescence.
- fluorescing — Present participle of fluoresce.
- fluoroscope — a tube or box fitted with a screen coated with a fluorescent substance, used for viewing objects, especially deep body structures, by means of x-ray or other radiation.
- fluoroscopy — the use of or examination by means of a fluoroscope.
- focus group — a representative group of people questioned together about their opinions on political issues, consumer products, etc.
- foreclosure — the act of foreclosing a mortgage or pledge.
- fourchettes — Plural form of fourchette.
- fractiously — In a fractious manner.
- frontcourts — Plural form of frontcourt.
- fruticulose — (botany) Like, or pertaining to, a small shrub.
- furciferous — (archaic) rascally; scandalous.
- furunculous — Furuncular.
- goatsuckers — Plural form of goatsucker.
- golf course — the ground or course over which golf is played. A standard full-scale golf course has 125 to 175 acres (51 to 71 hectares), usually with 18 holes varying from 100 to 650 yards (91 to 594 meters) in length from tee to cup.
- grass court — an outdoor tennis court having a grass surface.
- grouchiness — The characteristic or quality of being grouchy.
- groupuscule — A political or religious splinter group.
- heat source — sth that generates warmth
- hederaceous — (rare) Of, pertaining to, or resembling ivy.
- hercogamous — (of flowers) incapable of self-fertilization
- hircocervus — (in classical and medieval fable) a mythical creature that is half goat and half stag
- honeysucker — a bird that feeds on the nectar of 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-craft — skill in domestic management
- humouristic — Alternative spelling of humoristic.
- ice-scoured — noting an area having surface features resulting from scouring by an advancing ice sheet during glaciation.
- ichthyosaur — any fishlike marine reptile of the extinct order Ichthyosauria, ranging from 4 to 40 feet (1.2 to 12 meters) in length and having a round, tapering body, a large head, four paddlelike flippers, and a vertical caudal fin.
- icosandrous — belonging to the Icosandria, a class of plants
- icteritious — jaundiced; yellow
- incongruous — out of keeping or place; inappropriate; unbecoming: an incongruous effect; incongruous behavior.
- incredulous — not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical.
- incuriosity — The quality or state of lacking curiosity.
- incuriously — In an incurious manner.