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

  • crenulation — any of the teeth or notches of a crenulate structure
  • cropdusting — the spreading of fungicide, etc on crops in the form of dust, often from an aircraft
  • cuckoo spit — a white frothy mass on the stems and leaves of many plants, produced by froghopper larvae (cuckoo spit insects), which feed on the plant juices
  • cuckoo-spit — Also called frog spit. a frothy secretion found on plants, exuded by the young of certain insects, as the froghoppers, and serving as a protective covering.
  • cuckoopints — Plural form of cuckoopint.
  • cuitlacoche — corn smut.
  • culmination — Something, especially something important, that is the culmination of an activity, process, or series of events happens at the end of it.
  • cultivation — the planting, tending, improving, or harvesting of crops or plants
  • cultivators — Plural form of cultivator.
  • 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.
  • cunctatious — addicted to or prone to cunctation
  • 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
  • curatorship — The rank or period of being a curator.
  • curie point — the temperature above which a ferromagnetic substance loses its ferromagnetism and becomes paramagnetic
  • curiosities — Plural form of curiosity.
  • curtain rod — A curtain rod is a long, narrow pole on which you hang curtains.
  • cushion cut — a variety of brilliant cut in which the girdle has the form of a square with rounded corners.
  • cuspidation — decoration using cusps
  • 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.
  • cuts no ice — If you say that something cuts no ice with you, you mean that you are not impressed or influenced by it.
  • cutting oil — a specially prepared oil used as a cutting fluid.
  • deauthorize — to give authority for; formally sanction (an act or proceeding): Congress authorized the new tax on tobacco.
  • declivitous — fairly steep
  • decurionate — the post or position of a decurion
  • decurvation — the act of curving downwards
  • decussation — a decussating or being decussated
  • deevolution — any process of formation or growth; development: the evolution of a language; the evolution of the airplane.
  • deglutition — the act of swallowing
  • deglutitory — of or relating to swallowing
  • degustation — the act of sampling a wide variety of foods, wines, etc.
  • deleterious — Something that has a deleterious effect on something has a harmful effect on it.
  • delusionist — a person prone to delusions
  • dentigerous — bearing or having teeth
  • deplumation — to deprive of feathers; pluck.
  • depollution — to eliminate, clean up, or decrease pollution in (an area).
  • deputations — Plural form of deputation.
  • destitution — Destitution is the state of having no money or possessions.
  • destruction — Destruction is the act of destroying something, or the state of being destroyed.
  • desultorily — lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order, disconnected; fitful: desultory conversation.
  • deuteration — the process of introducing deuterium into a molecule or chemical compound
  • devaluation — a decrease in the exchange value of a currency against gold or other currencies, brought about by a government
  • diacoustics — the branch of physics that deals with refracted sound
  • dichotomous — divided or dividing into two parts.
  • dilutionary — causing, involving, or relating to the dilution of company stocks
  • diminutions — Plural form of diminution.
  • 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.
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