11-letter words containing i, m, u
- crumbliness — The state of being crumbly.
- crunch time — the critical moment
- culmicolous — (of a fungus) growing on grass culms.
- culmiferous — (of grasses) having a hollow jointed stem
- culminating — final; decisive
- culmination — Something, especially something important, that is the culmination of an activity, process, or series of events happens at the end of it.
- 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.
- culturalism — A belief system that emphasizes the role of culture.
- culturomics — the study of human culture and cultural trends over time by means of quantitative analysis of words and phrases in a very large corpus of digitized texts: Culturomics can pinpoint periods of accelerated language change.
- cumulonimbi — Plural form of cumulonimbus.
- curriculums — Plural form of curriculum.
- curtailment — The curtailment of something is the act of reducing or limiting it.
- customaries — Plural form of customary.
- customarily — according to custom; usually
- customizing — to modify or build according to individual or personal specifications or preference: to customize an automobile.
- cutoff time — The cutoff time is the time at which a bank stops crediting same-day deposits.
- cypripedium — any orchid of the genus Cypripedium, having large flowers with an inflated pouchlike lip
- dance music — music that is suitable for dancing
- deaf-mutism — unable to hear and speak.
- decommunize — to return (property) from public to private ownership
- decumbiture — the act of lying recumbent and, in particular, as a sick patient in bed
- definiendum — something to be defined, esp the term or phrase to be accounted for in a dictionary entry
- dehumanised — Past participle of dehumanise.
- dehumanises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dehumanise.
- dehumanized — Past participle of dehumanize.
- dehumanizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dehumanize.
- delphiniums — Plural form of delphinium.
- demagoguing — a person, especially an orator or political leader, who gains power and popularity by arousing the emotions, passions, and prejudices of the people.
- demagoguism — demagoguery.
- demetrius i — (Poliorcetes) 337?–283 b.c, king of Macedonia 294–286 (son of Antigonus I).
- demi-hunter — a watch having a hinged case with a hole in the lid permitting the time to be seen even when the lid is closed.
- demulsified — Simple past tense and past participle of demulsify.
- demultiplex — (electronics) To separate signals that were previously multiplexed (combined using a multiplexer).
- demutualise — If a building society or insurance company demutualises, it abandons its mutual status and becomes a limited company.
- demutualize — If a savings and loan association or an insurance company demutualizes, it abandons its mutual status and becomes a different kind of company.
- deplumation — to deprive of feathers; pluck.
- desideratum — something lacked and wanted
- desublimate — Psychology. to divert the energy of (a sexual or other biological impulse) from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
- diascordium — a herbal medicine, no longer in use, containing among other ingredients the herb scordium and opium
- dichogamous — having the stamens and pistils maturing at different times, thereby preventing self-pollination, as a monoclinous flower (opposed to homogamous).
- dichotomous — divided or dividing into two parts.
- diluvialism — the theory, generally abandoned in the mid-19th century, that the earth's surface was shaped by the biblical flood
- diminuendos — Plural form of diminuendo.
- diminuitive — Misspelling of diminutive.
- diminutions — Plural form of diminution.
- diminutives — Plural form of diminutive.
- dinotherium — any elephantlike mammal of the extinct genus Dinotherium, from the later Tertiary Period of Europe and Asia, having large, outwardly curving tusks.
- disaccustom — to cause to lose a habit: In the country I was quickly disaccustomed of sleeping late.
- disco music — 70s dance music
- disemburden — to remove a burden from (someone or something)