11-letter words containing e, n, c, o, u
- leukonychia — Alt form leuconychia.
- locust bean — carob.
- luckenbooth — a booth or shop capable of being locked up
- luckengowan — a daisy or other flower having petals drawn together similar to a bud
- lucy stoner — a person who advocates the retention of the maiden name by married women. Compare Stone (def 5).
- macronuclei — Plural form of macronucleus.
- main course — Nautical. a square mainsail.
- menthaceous — belonging to the Menthaceae, a former name for the plant family Labiatae.
- micronuclei — Plural form of micronucleus.
- mini-course — a brief intensive course of study
- minicourses — Plural form of minicourse.
- miscegenous — Of, pertaining to, or being miscegenation; interracial (said primarily of marriages and other sexual or romantic relationships).
- misconstrue — to misunderstand the meaning of; take in a wrong sense; misinterpret.
- 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.
- mononuclear — Also, mononucleate. Cell Biology. having only one nucleus.
- 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
- mucoprotein — a protein that yields carbohydrates as well as amino acids on hydrolysis.
- musclebound — having enlarged and inelastic muscles, as from excessive exercise.
- necessitous — destitute or impoverished; needy; indigent: to aid a necessitous young mother.
- neuroactive — affecting or interacting directly with the nervous system
- neurocytoma — A nervous system tumor primarily derived from nervous tissue, in contrast to the gliomas.
- neuroethics — The ethics of neuroscience and neurotechnology.
- neuroleptic — (chiefly of a drug) tending to reduce nervous tension by depressing nerve functions.
- neuropathic — any diseased condition of the nervous system.
- neuroticism — the state of having traits or symptoms characteristic of neurosis.
- neurotropic — having an affinity for nerve cells or tissue: a neurotropic virus; a neurotropic drug.
- neutropenic — Having neutropenia.
- new country — a style of country music that emerged in the late 1980s characterized by a more contemporary sound and down-to-earth rather than sentimental lyrics
- noctilucent — (of high-altitude clouds) visible during the short night of the summer.
- non-accrued — to happen or result as a natural growth, addition, etc.
- non-closure — the act of closing; the state of being closed.
- non-current — passing in time; belonging to the time actually passing: the current month.
- non-cursive — (of handwriting) in flowing strokes with the letters joined together.
- non-ductile — capable of being hammered out thin, as certain metals; malleable.
- non-nuclear — not utilizing nuclear power, nuclear weapons, etc.: to fight a nonnuclear war.
- non-suspect — to believe to be guilty, false, counterfeit, undesirable, defective, bad, etc., with little or no proof: to suspect a person of murder.
- noncellular — not composed of or containing cells: Cytoplasm is noncellular.
- noncoloured — not coloured
- noncomputed — Not computed.
- noncomputer — Not of or pertaining to computers.
- nonconsumer — a person who refrains from using or purchasing certain resources, products, or services
- noncustomer — a person who is not the customer of a particular establishment, or a person who does not buy a product or service
- nonforceful — Not forceful.
- nonrecourse — (finance) Of or pertaining to a form of financing, typically debt financing, in which the lender's recourse to recovery in the event of default is limited to the collateral asset only.
- nonreducing — that does not reduce
- nonspecular — that reflects light diffusely and evenly over the hemisphere surrounding the reflective surface; diffuse
- noun clause — a subordinate clause that functions as a noun within a main clause.