11-letter words containing i, t, o
- cryptomeria — a coniferous tree, Cryptomeria japonica, of China and Japan, with curved needle-like leaves and small round cones: family Taxodiaceae
- cryptorchid — an animal or human in which the testes fail to descend into the scrotum
- cryptozoite — a malarial parasite at the stage of development in its host before it enters the red blood cells
- crystalloid — resembling or having the appearance or properties of a crystal or crystalloid
- 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.
- cyanidation — (metallurgy) The extraction of gold or silver from their ores using the cyanide process.
- cybernation — the use of computers to control and carry out operations, as in manufacturing
- cyclization — the process by which the atoms of a compound become a closed ring
- cyclothymia — a condition characterized by periodical swings of mood between excitement and depression, activity and inactivity
- cyclothymic — Of or pertaining to cyclothymia.
- cynophilist — a person with a love of dogs
- cyprinodont — any small tropical or subtropical soft-finned fish of the mostly marine family Cyprinodontidae, resembling carp but having toothed jaws. The group includes the guppy, killifish, swordtail, and topminnow
- cystolithic — a mass of calcium carbonate on the cellulose wall.
- cystoscopic — Relating to, or using cystoscopy.
- cytoclastic — destructive to cells.
- cytogenesis — the origin and development of plant and animal cells
- cytogenetic — Of or pertaining to the origin and development of cells.
- cytokeratin — Either of several forms of keratin found in the intracytoplasmic cytoskeleton of epithelial tissue.
- cytokinesis — division of the cytoplasm of a cell, occurring at the end of mitosis or meiosis
- cytokinetic — of or relating to cytokinesis
- cytological — Of, or relating to cytology or cytologists.
- cytologists — Plural form of cytologist.
- cytomegalic — of or relating to a disease characterized by enlarged cells
- cytoplasmic — the cell substance between the cell membrane and the nucleus, containing the cytosol, organelles, cytoskeleton, and various particles.
- cytostatics — Plural form of cytostatic.
- cytotropism — cytotropic tendency or behavior.
- daffynition — A form of pun involving the reinterpretation of an existing word, on the basis that it sounds like another word or phrase.
- dative bond — coordinate bond
- dative-bond — a type of covalent bond between two atoms in which the bonding electrons are supplied by one of the two atoms.