11-letter words containing e, n, r, o, u, t
- counterplay — a positive or aggressive action by the defending side, esp in chess
- counterplea — a reply to a plea
- counterplot — a plot designed to frustrate another plot
- counterploy — an opposing or retaliatory ploy
- counterpole — The exact opposite.
- counterpose — to place (something) in opposition to
- counterraid — a retaliatory raid on an enemy
- countersank — Simple past form of countersink.
- counterseal — a smaller seal on the reverse of the main seal
- countershot — a sequence of frames seen from the perspective of the subject of the previous shot
- countersign — If you countersign a document, you sign it after someone else has signed it.
- countersing — (ethology, of a bird) To sing in response to the song of another.
- countersink — to enlarge the upper part of (a hole) in timber, metal, etc, so that the head of a bolt or screw can be sunk below the surface
- counterstep — an opposing step or measure
- countersued — Simple past tense and past participle of countersue.
- countersuit — a legal claim made as a reaction to a claim made against one
- countersunk — driven or sunk into an enlarged hole
- counterterm — Antithesis.
- countertops — Plural form of countertop.
- counterturn — a turn in an opposing or contrary direction.
- countertype — an opposite type
- countervail — to act or act against with equal power or force
- countervair — (heraldry) A heraldic fur resembling vair, except in the arrangement of the patches or figures.
- counterview — an opposite or opposing view
- counterword — a word widely used in a sense much looser than its original meaning, such as tremendous or awful
- counterwork — work done in opposition to other work
- countrified — You use countrified to describe something that seems or looks like something in the country, rather than in a town.
- countryfied — countrified
- countrymade — (in India) Describing a weapon manufactured illegally in a cottage industry.
- countryseat — a house or estate in the country
- countryside — The countryside is land which is away from towns and cities.
- countrywide — Something that happens or exists countrywide happens or exists throughout the whole of a particular country.
- 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.
- crenulation — any of the teeth or notches of a crenulate structure
- curie point — the temperature above which a ferromagnetic substance loses its ferromagnetism and becomes paramagnetic
- cut corners — to do something in the easiest and shortest way, esp at the expense of high standards
- 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
- dentigerous — bearing or having teeth
- deobstruent — a drug which removes obstructions in the body by aiding the opening of ducts
- destruction — Destruction is the act of destroying something, or the state of being destroyed.
- deuteranope — a person suffering from deuteranopia
- deuteration — the process of introducing deuterium into a molecule or chemical compound
- deuteronomy — the fifth book of the Old Testament, containing a second statement of the Mosaic Law
- dinotherium — any elephantlike mammal of the extinct genus Dinotherium, from the later Tertiary Period of Europe and Asia, having large, outwardly curving tusks.
- discounters — Plural form of discounter.