11-letter words containing l, o, s, c
- epicycloids — Plural form of epicycloid.
- episcopally — By episcopal authority.
- escalations — Plural form of escalation.
- escallonias — Plural form of escallonia.
- eschatology — The part of theology concerned with death, judgment, and the final destiny of the soul and of humankind.
- escritorial — Of or pertaining to an escritoire.
- exonuclease — An enzyme that removes successive nucleotides from the end of a polynucleotide molecule.
- fabulicious — (slang) Exceptionally fabulous and appealing.
- facetiously — not meant to be taken seriously or literally: a facetious remark.
- false color — photography using infrared-sensitive film that produces images in which heat-emitting areas or objects appear red.
- fasciolosis — Alternative form of fascioliasis.
- ferociously — savagely fierce, as a wild beast, person, action, or aspect; violently cruel: a ferocious beating.
- flesh color — (no longer in common use; now considered offensive) a yellowish pink or pinkish cream color (approximating the skin color of a white person).
- fletschhorn — a mountain in S Switzerland, in the Pennine Alps. 13,110 feet (3999 meters).
- flocculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flocculate.
- floor space — an area on the floor of a premises where objects may be placed
- floppy disc — (spelling) It's "floppy disk", not like "compact disc".
- florescence — the act, state, or period of flowering; bloom.
- flucytosine — a synthetic whitish crystalline powder, C 4 H 4 FN 3 O, with antifungal activity, used in the treatment of systemic and eye fungal infections caused by susceptible strains of Candida or Cryptococcus.
- fluorescein — an orange-red, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 20 H 12 O 5 , that in alkaline solutions produces an orange color and an intense green fluorescence: used to trace subterranean waters and in dyes.
- fluorescent — possessing the property of fluorescence; exhibiting fluorescence.
- fluorescing — Present participle of fluoresce.
- fluoroscope — a tube or box fitted with a screen coated with a fluorescent substance, used for viewing objects, especially deep body structures, by means of x-ray or other radiation.
- fluoroscopy — the use of or examination by means of a fluoroscope.
- fluticasone — (organic compound) A synthetic corticosteroid whose furoate and propionate forms are used as topical anti-inflammatories.
- foliicolous — growing on leaves, as certain liverworts.
- folliculose — having or resembling follicles
- folliculous — having or producing follicles
- footlockers — Plural form of footlocker.
- forced sale — a sale held as a result of a judicial order.
- forcepslike — Resembling a forceps.
- forecastles — Plural form of forecastle.
- foreclosing — Present participle of foreclose.
- foreclosure — the act of foreclosing a mortgage or pledge.
- formalistic — strict adherence to, or observance of, prescribed or traditional forms, as in music, poetry, and art.
- fractiously — In a fractious manner.
- free school — a privately run school organized as an alternative to the traditional public or private school, usually following a highly flexible approach to the curriculum and teaching methods.
- frescobaldi — Girolamo [jee-raw-lah-maw] /dʒiˈrɔ lɑ mɔ/ (Show IPA), 1583–1643, Italian organist and composer.
- fruticulose — (botany) Like, or pertaining to, a small shrub.
- full cousin — cousin (def 1).
- full-custom — Design of integrated circuits at the transistor or polygon level. This is in contrast to the use of libraries of components. Full-custom design requires considerable skill and experience and is usually only feasible for simple circuits, especially ones with much repetition, such as memory device, where a small saving in the size and power consumption of a component will yield a large overall saving.
- functionals — Plural form of functional.
- furunculous — Furuncular.
- galactoside — A glycoside yielding galactose on hydrolysis.
- gas vacuole — a gas-filled structure that provides buoyancy in some aquatic bacteria
- gastrocolic — of, relating to, or involving the stomach and colon.
- genius loci — the guardian spirit of a place.
- geophysical — the branch of geology that deals with the physics of the earth and its atmosphere, including oceanography, seismology, volcanology, and geomagnetism.
- geopolitics — the study or the application of the influence of political and economic geography on the politics, national power, foreign policy, etc., of a state.
- geosyncline — a portion of the earth's crust subjected to downward warping during a large span of geologic time; a geosynclinal fold.