11-letter words containing c, u, t, e
- lecturelike — Resembling a lecture or some aspect of one.
- lectureship — the office of lecturer.
- legacy duty — estate tax; inheritance tax
- lenticulate — to impress lenticules on the surface of (film).
- leptokurtic — (of a frequency distribution) being more concentrated about the mean than the corresponding normal distribution.
- leucocratic — (of a rock) composed mainly of light-colored minerals.
- leucoplasts — Plural form of leucoplast.
- lieutenancy — the office, authority, incumbency, or jurisdiction of a lieutenant.
- light curve — a graph showing variations in brightness of celestial objects over time.
- locust bean — carob.
- lower court — any court other than the highest court in a jurisdiction
- lubavitcher — a member of a missionary Hasidic movement founded in the 1700s by Rabbi Shneour Zalman of Lyady.
- luckenbooth — a booth or shop capable of being locked up
- lucratively — In a lucrative manner, profitably.
- lucy stoner — a person who advocates the retention of the maiden name by married women. Compare Stone (def 5).
- luff tackle — a tackle having a double block and a single block, giving a mechanical advantage of three or four, neglecting friction, depending on which is the standing and which is the running block.
- luminescent — the emission of light not caused by incandescence and occurring at a temperature below that of incandescent bodies.
- luteotropic — affecting the corpus luteum.
- lythraceous — belonging to the Lythraceae, the loosestrife family of plants.
- magic flute — an opera (1791) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
- manufacture — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
- mariculture — marine aquaculture.
- massachuset — a member of an extinct tribe of North American Indians of eastern Massachusetts.
- matriculate — to enroll in a college or university as a candidate for a degree.
- mecopterous — belonging or pertaining to the insect order Mecoptera, comprising the scorpionflies and hangingflies.
- mediumistic — pertaining to a spiritualistic medium.
- menthaceous — belonging to the Menthaceae, a former name for the plant family Labiatae.
- metaculture — All the universal concepts that are present in all cultures.
- metallurgic — the technique or science of working or heating metals so as to give them certain desired shapes or properties.
- microtubule — a hollow cylindrical structure in the cytoplasm of most cells, involved in intracellular shape and transport.
- misconstrue — to misunderstand the meaning of; take in a wrong sense; misinterpret.
- miseducated — Simple past tense and past participle of miseducate.
- monchiquite — a type of rock made up of large crystals of, among other constituents, olivine and amphibole and which is found in an analcite groundmass
- monoculture — the use of land for growing only one type of crop.
- monticulate — having low rising mounds or protrusions
- 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.
- mountenance — a quantity, amount, duration, or value
- mouth ulcer — oral sore
- mouthpieces — Plural form of mouthpiece.
- mucopeptide — Peptidoglycan.
- mucoprotein — a protein that yields carbohydrates as well as amino acids on hydrolysis.
- multi-faced — having a specified kind of face or number of faces (usually used in combination): a sweet-faced child; the two-faced god.
- multiaccess — a system in which several users are permitted to have apparently simultaneous access to a computer
- multiagency — involving multiple agencies
- multicasted — Transmitted in the form of a multicast.
- multicelled — (of an organism) Having many cells; multicellular.
- multicenter — (medicine, of a study) Taking place at multiple locations.
- multicentre — Of or pertaining to multiple centres.
- multichoice — Multiple-choice.
- multichrome — chromium.