11-letter words containing c, u, t, s, n
- insculpture — an inscription or carving
- insectarium — a place in which a collection of living insects is kept, as in a zoo.
- insectifuge — a substance or preparation for driving off insects.
- instinctual — of, relating to, or of the nature of instinct.
- instructing — to furnish with knowledge, especially by a systematic method; teach; train; educate.
- instruction — machine instruction
- instructive — serving to instruct or inform; conveying instruction, knowledge, or information; enlightening.
- instructors — Plural form of instructor.
- insurrectos — Plural form of insurrecto.
- intercampus — the grounds, often including the buildings, of a college, university, or school.
- intercourse — dealings or communication between individuals, groups, countries, etc.
- introducers — Plural form of introducer.
- intumescent — a swelling up, as with congestion.
- intumescing — Present participle of intumesce.
- janus cloth — a worsted fabric, each side of which has a different color.
- juvenescent — being or becoming youthful; young.
- keratoconus — a degenerative condition characterized by conical protrusion of the cornea and irregular astigmatism.
- kernicterus — (medicine) Damage to the brain centres of infants caused by increased levels of unconjugated-indirect bilirubin which is free (not bound to albumin).
- knackwursts — Plural form of knackwurst.
- knockabouts — Plural form of knockabout.
- knockwursts — Plural form of knockwurst.
- languescent — becoming languid
- linguistics — the science of language, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and historical linguistics.
- liposuction — the surgical withdrawal of excess fat from local areas under the skin by means of a small incision and vacuum suctioning.
- locust bean — carob.
- lucy stoner — a person who advocates the retention of the maiden name by married women. Compare Stone (def 5).
- luminescent — the emission of light not caused by incandescence and occurring at a temperature below that of incandescent bodies.
- manicurists — Plural form of manicurist.
- manuscripts — Plural form of manuscript.
- masculation — Making masculine; giving male characteristics.
- masculinist — Characterized by or denoting attitudes or values held to be typical of men.
- masculinity — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
- menthaceous — belonging to the Menthaceae, a former name for the plant family Labiatae.
- misconstrue — to misunderstand the meaning of; take in a wrong sense; misinterpret.
- miscounting — Present participle of miscount.
- misfunction — malfunction.
- misinstruct — To instruct badly or wrongly.
- monticolous — existing or having a habitat in or on mountains
- 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.
- multiscreen — Having multiple screens.
- musculation — (anatomy) The muscular system of an animal, or of any of its parts.
- music stand — a pedestal or rack designed to hold a score or sheet of music in position for reading.
- muttonchops — The whiskers on a man's cheek when shaped like a meat chop, narrow at the top and broad and rounded at the bottom.
- necessitous — destitute or impoverished; needy; indigent: to aid a necessitous young mother.
- necessitude — necessity.
- neuroethics — The ethics of neuroscience and neurotechnology.
- neuroticism — the state of having traits or symptoms characteristic of neurosis.
- nicostratus — a son of Menelaus and Helen who, with his illegitimate brother Megapenthes, expelled Helen from Sparta when Menelaus died.
- noctilucous — (obsolete) Shining in the night; luminescent.
- non-suspect — to believe to be guilty, false, counterfeit, undesirable, defective, bad, etc., with little or no proof: to suspect a person of murder.