11-letter words containing e, n, c, o, u
- county seat — A county seat is the same as a county town.
- coupon rate — The coupon rate is the interest rate on a bond calculated on the number of coupons per year.
- court dance — a dignified dance for performance at a court. Compare folk dance (def 1).
- courtliness — polite, refined, or elegant: courtly manners.
- covermounts — Plural form of covermount.
- cowpunchers — Plural form of cowpuncher.
- creep up on — If you creep up on someone, you move slowly closer to them without being seen by them.
- crenulation — any of the teeth or notches of a crenulate structure
- crinigerous — having hair; hairy
- croquignole — a small crisp cake
- crowdfunded — Simple past tense and past participle of crowdfund.
- cryosurgeon — a surgeon who specializes in cryosurgery
- cunobelinus — also called Cymbeline. died ?42 ad, British ruler of the Catuvellauni tribe (?10–?42); founder of Colchester (?10)
- 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
- cupronickel — any ductile corrosion-resistant copper alloy containing up to 40 per cent nickel: used in coins, condenser tubes, turbine blades, etc
- curie point — the temperature above which a ferromagnetic substance loses its ferromagnetism and becomes paramagnetic
- curiousness — eager to learn or know; inquisitive.
- curmudgeons — Plural form of curmudgeon.
- cursoriness — The state of being cursory.
- cushionless — without a cushion
- cut a melon — to declare an abnormally high dividend to shareholders
- cut corners — to do something in the easiest and shortest way, esp at the expense of high standards
- cutaneously — In a cutaneous way.
- cuts no ice — If you say that something cuts no ice with you, you mean that you are not impressed or influenced by it.
- cuttlebones — Plural form of cuttlebone.
- cyclobutane — (uncountable, organic compound) A simple alicyclic hydrocarbon, C4H8; a light inflammable gas.
- cystogenous — forming or secreting cysts
- debouchment — the act or an instance of debouching
- decommunize — to return (property) from public to private ownership
- decompounds — Plural form of decompound.
- deconstruct — In philosophy and literary criticism, to deconstruct an idea or text means to show the contradictions in its meaning, and to show how it does not fully explain what it claims to explain.
- decurionate — the post or position of a decurion
- decurvation — the act of curving downwards
- decussation — a decussating or being decussated
- deinonychus — a genus of carnivorous dinosaur which existed in the early Cretaceous period, notable for the unusually large curved claws on the second toe of its feet
- destruction — Destruction is the act of destroying something, or the state of being destroyed.
- discontinue — to put an end to; stop; terminate: to discontinue nuclear testing.
- discounters — Plural form of discounter.
- documentary — Also, documental [dok-yuh-men-tl] /ˌdɒk yəˈmɛn tl/ (Show IPA). pertaining to, consisting of, or derived from documents: a documentary history of France.
- documenters — Plural form of documenter.
- documenting — Present participle of document.
- donkeypunch — Alternative form of donkey punch.
- donut peach — fruit
- double chin — a fold of fat beneath the chin.
- douchecanoe — (vulgar, slang, pejorative) A rude, obnoxious, or contemptible person.
- duo-decagon — dodecagon.
- ecoconsumer — A consumer who makes purchasing decisions partly or largely on the basis of ecological issues.
- educational — pertaining to education.
- ejaculation — The action of ejecting semen from the body.
- elucidation — Explanation that makes something clear; clarification.