11-letter words containing m, e, n, o
- consumptive — A consumptive person suffers from tuberculosis.
- containment — Containment is the action or policy of keeping another country's power or area of control within acceptable limits or boundaries.
- contaminate — If something is contaminated by dirt, chemicals, or radiation, they make it dirty or harmful.
- contemplant — absorbed in contemplation
- contemplate — If you contemplate an action, you think about whether to do it or not.
- contenement — a holding or a property that must be held by a freeman in order to maintain his station
- contentment — Contentment is a feeling of quiet happiness and satisfaction.
- conterminal — having a common boundary; bordering; contiguous.
- contretemps — A contretemps is a small disagreement that is rather embarrassing.
- controlment — power to direct or determine
- contumelies — Plural form of contumely.
- copernicium — a highly radioactive element that is produced synthetically. Symbol: Cn; atomic no: 112; atomic wt: 285
- corrigendum — an error to be corrected
- cosmetician — a person who makes, sells, or applies cosmetics
- cosmogonies — Plural form of cosmogony.
- coterminous — having a common boundary; bordering; contiguous
- countermand — If you countermand an order, you cancel it, usually by giving a different order.
- countermark — a mark on an object that is additional to a mark already on that object, and that serves a purpose such as enhancing security, or noting a change in the value of that object, etc
- countermemo — a memorandum responding to another memorandum
- countermine — a tunnel dug to defeat similar activities by an enemy
- countermove — A countermove is an action that someone takes in response to an action by another person or group.
- countermure — a wall positioned behind, or before, another wall and hence providing extra defence
- countermyth — a myth that conflicts with another myth
- counterterm — Antithesis.
- countrymade — (in India) Describing a weapon manufactured illegally in a cottage industry.
- county home — a county poorhouse.
- covermounts — Plural form of covermount.
- craftswomen — Plural form of craftswoman.
- craniectomy — the surgical removal of a part of the skull to facilitate brain surgery, the bone then being discarded rather than replaced
- craniometer — an instrument for measuring the cranium or skull
- craniometry — the study and measurement of skulls
- creationism — Creationism is the belief that the account of the creation of the universe in the Bible is true, and that the theory of evolution is incorrect.
- cromwellian — of, relating to, or characteristic of the politics, practices, etc., of Oliver Cromwell or of the Commonwealth and Protectorate.
- crossbowmen — Plural form of crossbowman.
- curmudgeons — Plural form of curmudgeon.
- cut a melon — to declare an abnormally high dividend to shareholders
- cystadenoma — Hidrocystoma.
- daemonology — the study of demons or of beliefs about demons.
- deamidation — (biochemistry) The conversion of glutamine, asparagine, glutamine residues in a polypeptide to glutamic acid or aspartic acid by treatment with strong acid, transamidase or deamidase.
- deamination — to remove the amino group from (a compound).
- debouchment — the act or an instance of debouching
- decameronic — resembling or having characteristics of the Decameron written by Boccaccio
- decimations — Plural form of decimation.
- declamation — a rhetorical or emotional speech, made esp in order to protest or condemn; tirade
- decommunize — to return (property) from public to private ownership
- decomposing — Present participle of decompose.
- decompounds — Plural form of decompound.
- defamations — Plural form of defamation.
- deforcement — (legal) A keeping out by force or wrong; a wrongful withholding, as of lands or tenements, to which another has a right.
- deformation — the act of deforming; distortion