11-letter words containing e, n, a, t
- creationist — A creationist is someone who believes that the story of the creation of the universe in the Bible is true, and who rejects the theory of evolution.
- credentials — Someone's credentials are their previous achievements, training, and general background, which indicate that they are qualified to do something.
- crenelation — Alternative form of crenellation.
- crenellated — In a castle, a crenellated wall has gaps in the top or openings through which to fire at attackers.
- crenulation — any of the teeth or notches of a crenulate structure
- crepitating — Present participle of crepitate.
- crepitation — the act of crepitating
- crescentade — a religious crusade or war fought under the flag of Turkey
- crestfallen — If you look crestfallen, you look sad and disappointed about something.
- cretan bull — a savage bull, captured on Crete by Hercules and allowed to roam near Marathon in Greece until captured by Theseus.
- criminative — involving crimination; accusatory.
- crown agent — a member of a board appointed by the Minister for Overseas Development to provide financial, commercial, and professional services for a number of overseas governments and international bodies
- crustaceans — Plural form of crustacean.
- crystalline — A crystalline substance is in the form of crystals or contains crystals.
- ctenophoran — of a ctenophore
- culminative — (of stress or tone accent) serving to indicate the number of independent words or the important points in an utterance by assigning prominence to one syllable in each word or close-knit group of words.
- cupellation — the process of recovering precious metals from lead by melting the alloy in a cupel and oxidizing the lead by means of an air blast
- curtailment — The curtailment of something is the act of reducing or limiting it.
- curtainless — without a curtain or curtains
- cut a melon — to declare an abnormally high dividend to shareholders
- cutaneously — In a cutaneous way.
- cybernation — the use of computers to control and carry out operations, as in manufacturing
- cyclobutane — (uncountable, organic compound) A simple alicyclic hydrocarbon, C4H8; a light inflammable gas.
- cystadenoma — Hidrocystoma.
- cytokeratin — Either of several forms of keratin found in the intracytoplasmic cytoskeleton of epithelial tissue.
- danger list — on
- dante chair — a chair of the Renaissance having two transverse pairs of curved legs crossing beneath the seat and rising to support the arms and back.
- dastardness — the sate or quality of being a dastard
- data driven — A data driven architecture/language performs computations in an order dictated by data dependencies. Two kinds of data driven computation are dataflow and demand driven. From about 1970 research in parallel data driven computation increased. Centres of excellence emerged at MIT, CERT-ONERA in France, NTT and ETL in Japan and Manchester University.
- dative bond — coordinate bond
- dative-bond — a type of covalent bond between two atoms in which the bonding electrons are supplied by one of the two atoms.
- datum plane — the horizontal plane from which heights and depths are calculated
- dauntlessly — In a dauntless manner.
- day student — a student at a college or secondary school who does not reside in a facility provided by the school
- day-neutral — (of plants) having an ability to mature and bloom that is not affected by day length
- de la renta — Oscar, 1932–2014, U.S. fashion designer, born in the Dominican Republic.
- deacon seat — a bench running most of the length of a bunkhouse in a lumbering camp.
- dead center — the position of maximum (top dead center) or minimum (bottom dead center) extension of a crank and a connecting rod, in which both are in the same straight line
- dead centre — the exact top (top dead centre) or bottom (bottom dead centre) of the piston stroke in a reciprocating engine or pump
- dead nettle — any of various plants belonging to the genus Lamium, of the mint family, native to the Old World, having opposite leaves and clusters of small reddish or white flowers.
- dead-nettle — any Eurasian plant of the genus Lamium, such as L. alba (white dead-nettle), having leaves resembling nettles but lacking stinging hairs: family Lamiaceae (labiates)
- deadenylate — (biochemistry, genetics) To remove an adenylate group from a protein; especially to activate an enzyme by this means.
- deamidating — Present participle of deamidate.
- deamidation — (biochemistry) The conversion of glutamine, asparagine, glutamine residues in a polypeptide to glutamic acid or aspartic acid by treatment with strong acid, transamidase or deamidase.
- deamination — to remove the amino group from (a compound).
- dean's list — a list of students achieving the highest grades, periodically issued at certain colleges
- death angel — Azrael.
- death grant — (in the British National Insurance scheme) a grant payable to a relative, executor, etc, after the death of a person
- death knell — something that heralds death or destruction
- deathliness — The state or quality of being deathly.