11-letter words containing c, u, e, i
- glucokinase — an enzyme, found in all living systems, that serves to catalyze the phosphorylation of gluconic acid.
- glucosamine — an aminosugar occurring in many polysaccharides of vertebrate tissue and also as the major component of chitin.
- glucosidase — (enzyme) Any enzyme that hydrolyses glucosides.
- glucuronide — a glycoside that yields glucuronic acid upon hydrolysis.
- grape juice — nectar of the grape
- grouchiness — The characteristic or quality of being grouchy.
- guide price — a speculative price for something not yet offered for sale
- guinea corn — durra.
- gum elastic — rubber1 (def 1).
- gun licence — an official document granting a person permission to own and use a gun, usually subject to various restrictions
- hair-curler — a cylindrical device, usually electronic and heated, used to curl the hair
- hallucinate — to have hallucinations.
- hardicanute — 1019?–42, king of Denmark 1035–42, king of England 1040–42 (son of Canute).
- haruspicate — of or relating to a haruspex
- haute-piece — a standing flange fixed to or formed on a pauldron as a protection for one side of the neck.
- helichrysum — any of the numerous composite plants of the genus Helichrysum, having alternate leaves and solitary or clustered flower heads, including the strawflower.
- heliculture — the science or occupation of raising snails for food.
- hemicyclium — a sundial in the form of a concave quarter sphere having a rodlike gnomon lying within one radius and marked on its surface with arcs that lie in the same plane as the gnomon.
- hermeneutic — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
- heuristical — Of or pertaining to heuristics.
- hibernacula — Plural form of hibernaculum.
- hierurgical — of or relating to sacred rites
- hircocervus — (in classical and medieval fable) a mythical creature that is half goat and half stag
- hour circle — a great circle on the celestial sphere passing through the celestial poles and containing a point on the celestial sphere, as a star or the vernal equinox.
- 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 music — an up-tempo style of disco music characterized by deep bass rhythms, piano or synthesizer melodies, and soul-music singing, sometimes with elements of rap music.
- huckstering — Present participle of huckster.
- hucksterish — a retailer of small articles, especially a peddler of fruits and vegetables; hawker.
- hucksterism — a retailer of small articles, especially a peddler of fruits and vegetables; hawker.
- huitlacoche — Corn smut prepared as a delicacy.
- humectation — A moistening.
- humperdinck — Engelbert [eng-uh l-bert;; English eng-guh l-burt] /ˈɛŋ əlˌbɛrt;; English ˈɛŋ gəlˌbɜrt/ (Show IPA), 1854–1921, German composer.
- hyperacuity — an extreme acuteness (of the senses)
- hyperacusis — (medicine) A heightened sensitivity to some sounds.
- hypothecium — the layer of hyphal tissue directly beneath the hymenium of an apothecium.
- ice-scoured — noting an area having surface features resulting from scouring by an advancing ice sheet during glaciation.
- icteritious — jaundiced; yellow
- illuminance — illumination (def 6).
- immunogenic — causing or capable of producing an immune response.
- impecunious — having little or no money; penniless; poor.
- implicature — potential inference that is not logical entailment.
- impuissance — Impotence, weakness.
- 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.
- in the club — pregnant
- inauthentic — not authentic: inauthentic Indian jewelry mass-produced in a factory.
- incapsulate — Alternative form of encapsulate.
- incertitude — uncertainty or doubtfulness.
- include out — to exclude
- include war — Excessive multi-leveled including within a discussion thread, a practice that tends to annoy readers. In a forum with high-traffic newsgroups, such as Usenet, this can lead to flames and the urge to start a kill file.
- inclusively — including or encompassing the stated limit or extremes in consideration or account (usually used postpositively): from 6 to 37 inclusive.