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11-letter words containing e, t, o, u

  • centuriator — a historian who compiles work by centuries, esp one of the writers of the Magdeburg Centuries
  • ceteosaurus — a large dinosaur of the Jurassic period
  • champertous — a sharing in the proceeds of litigation by one who agrees with either the plaintiff or defendant to help promote it or carry it on.
  • chart house — a room or deckhouse for storing and working with charts, navigational instruments, etc.
  • chartaceous — of the nature of paper; papery
  • chateauroux — a town in central France: 10th-century castle (Château-Raoul). Pop: 46 386 (2009)
  • chicken out — If someone chickens out of something they were intending to do, they decide not to do it because they are afraid.
  • chilled out — relaxed
  • choukoutien — Wade-Giles. Zhoukoudian.
  • chucker-out — a person employed at a club, pub, disco, etc, to throw out drunks or troublemakers and stop those considered undesirable from entering
  • chug report — (humour)   From "chug" - to drink heavily. A bug report whose the submitter is thought to have had one too many. Not as bad as a drug report.
  • cineritious — See cinereous.
  • cinquecento — the 16th century, esp in reference to Italian art, architecture, or literature
  • clapped out — (of machinery or appliances) worn-out; dilapidated.
  • clapped-out — If you describe a person or a machine as clapped-out, you mean that they are old and no longer able to work properly.
  • cleaned out — free from dirt; unsoiled; unstained: She bathed and put on a clean dress.
  • clenbuterol — a drug prescribed for breathing disorders
  • close quote — (used by a speaker to indicate the end of a quotation.)
  • close up/to — If you look at something close up or close to, you look at it when you are very near to it.
  • club-footed — a congenitally deformed or distorted foot.
  • coadventure — adventure in which two or more share.
  • coagulative — Obsolete. coagulated.
  • coal cutter — a machine for undercutting a coal seam
  • cobalt blue — any greenish-blue pigment containing cobalt aluminate, usually made by heating cobaltous sulphate, aluminium oxide, and phosphoric acid together
  • coconut ice — a sweetmeat made from desiccated coconut and sugar
  • cocultivate — to cultivate jointly
  • coeducation — instruction in schools, colleges, etc, attended by both sexes
  • coevolution — the evolution of complementary adaptations in two or more species of organisms because of a special relationship that exists between them, as in insect-pollinated plants and their insect pollinators
  • coexecutrix — a joint executrix.
  • coextrusion — simultaneous extrusion of two or more different yet compatible metals or plastics through the same die.
  • colatitudes — Plural form of colatitude.
  • cold turkey — Cold turkey is the unpleasant physical reaction that people experience when they suddenly stop taking a drug that they have become addicted to.
  • cold-turkey — to withdraw from (an addictive substance or a habit) abruptly and completely.
  • colporteurs — Plural form of colporteur.
  • columniated — having columns or arranged in columns
  • combustible — A combustible material or gas catches fire and burns easily.
  • come out in — If you come out in spots, you become covered with them.
  • come out of — costs: be subtracted
  • comment out — (programming)   To surround a section of code with comment delimiters or to prefix every line in the section with a comment marker. This prevents it from being compiled or interpreted. It is often done to temporarily disable the code, e.g. during debugging or when the code is redundant or obsolete, but is being left in the source to make the intent of the active code clearer. The word "comment" is sometimes replaced with whatever syntax is used to mark comments in the language in question, e.g. "hash out" (shell script, Perl), "REM out" (BASIC), etc. Compare condition out.
  • communicate — to impart (knowledge) or exchange (thoughts, feelings, or ideas) by speech, writing, gestures, etc
  • communities — Plural form of community.
  • communitive — Relating to community.
  • commutative — relating to or involving substitution
  • computative — of, relating to, or involving computation
  • computerate — If someone is computerate, they have enough skill and knowledge to be able to use a computer.
  • computerdom — the computer industry
  • computerese — the jargon and terminology associated with computers
  • computerise — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of computerize.
  • computerist — a computer user
  • computerize — To computerize a system, process, or type of work means to arrange for a lot of the work to be done by computer.
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