11-letter words containing m, o, n
- camino real — a main road; highway.
- campaniform — shaped like a bell
- campanology — the art or skill of ringing bells musically
- campbeltown — a seaport on the Kintyre peninsula, in SW Scotland: resort.
- campgrounds — Plural form of campground.
- campo santo — a cemetery
- cancelmoose — (messaging) A semi-mythical being that cancels Usenet articles posted by others. (In general, an article can only be cancelled by its original author.) The Cancelmoose's usual target is spam or extremely excessive cross-posting. Some believe that the Cancelmoose exists only in the same mythic sense that B1FF, the NSA line eater and Shub Internet exist; others consider Cancelmoose's historicity to be closer to that of Kibo. The latter group assume that the real Cancelmoose is not one person (or moose), but instead is a cabal of NNTP wonks. However, the Cancelmoose is probably real, seeing as how it has its own website.
- canis major — a constellation in the S hemisphere close to Orion, containing Sirius, the brightest star in the sky
- canis minor — a small constellation in the N hemisphere close to Orion, containing the first magnitude star Procyon
- cankerworms — Plural form of cankerworm.
- cannot seem — If you say that you cannot seem or could not seem to do something, you mean that you have tried to do it and were unable to.
- canto fermo — a melody that is the basis to which other parts are added in polyphonic music
- cantonments — Plural form of cantonment.
- car bombing — an instance when a bomb which someone has hidden under or in a car explodes
- carborundum — any of various abrasive materials, esp one consisting of silicon carbide
- carcinomata — Plural form of carcinoma.
- carnivorism — flesh-eating: A dog is a carnivorous animal.
- carpogonium — the female sex organ of red algae, consisting of a swollen base containing the ovum and a long neck down which the male gametes pass
- cash income — income received in the form of cash during a specified period, esp that of rural and farming households
- cattlewoman — A woman who raises or tends cattle.
- cattlewomen — Plural form of cattlewoman.
- cefmenoxime — A particular third-generation cephalosporin antibiotic.
- cementation — the process of heating a solid with a powdered material to modify the properties of the solid, esp the heating of wrought iron, surrounded with charcoal, to 750–900°C to produce steel
- cementatory — possessing the quality to firmly unite or cement
- centimorgan — a unit of chromosome length, used in genetic mapping, equal to the length of chromosome over which crossing over occurs with 1 per cent frequency
- centromeres — Plural form of centromere.
- centromeric — Pertaining to, or characteristic of centromeres.
- centrosomal — Of or pertaining to a centrosome or centrosomes.
- centrosomes — Plural form of centrosome.
- centrosomic — Relating to the centrosome.
- ceremonials — Plural form of ceremonial.
- ceremonious — especially or excessively polite or formal
- ceylon moss — a red East Indian seaweed, Gracilaria lichenoides, from which agar is made
- cga monitor — a type of (early) computer monitor designed to operate with CGA technology
- chaenomeles — any of a genus of deciduous shrubs within the family Rosaceae, native to East Asia
- chain-smoke — Someone who chain-smokes smokes cigarettes or cigars continuously.
- chameleonic — any of numerous Old World lizards of the family Chamaeleontidae, characterized by the ability to change the color of their skin, very slow locomotion, and a projectile tongue.
- champignons — Plural form of champignon.
- championess — a female champion
- championing — a person who has defeated all opponents in a competition or series of competitions, so as to hold first place: the heavyweight boxing champion.
- champollion — Jean François (ʒɑ̃ frɑ̃swa). 1790–1832, French Egyptologist, who deciphered the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta stone
- charactonym — a name given to a literary character that is descriptive of a quality or trait of the character.
- cheap money — money lent at a low rate of interest
- chemosensor — A cell in a sense organ that can convert a chemical stimulus into some form of action.
- chenopodium — (botany) Any member of the flowering plant genus Chenopodium.
- chernozemic — of or relating to a chernozem
- chimney pot — A chimney pot is a short pipe which is fixed on top of a chimney.
- chiromancer — A palm reader, one who practices chiromancy.
- chiromantic — relating to chiromancy
- chironomids — Plural form of chironomid.