11-letter words containing m, o, u, c
- customizing — to modify or build according to individual or personal specifications or preference: to customize an automobile.
- cut a melon — to declare an abnormally high dividend to shareholders
- cut-up poem — a poem created from parts of the works of various authors combined to form one composition.
- cutoff time — The cutoff time is the time at which a bank stops crediting same-day deposits.
- cymophanous — lustrous; brilliant
- damp course — A damp course is a layer of waterproof material which is put into the bottom of the outside wall of a building to prevent moisture from rising.
- debouchment — the act or an instance of debouching
- decommunize — to return (property) from public to private ownership
- decompounds — Plural form of decompound.
- diascordium — a herbal medicine, no longer in use, containing among other ingredients the herb scordium and opium
- dichogamous — having the stamens and pistils maturing at different times, thereby preventing self-pollination, as a monoclinous flower (opposed to homogamous).
- dichotomous — divided or dividing into two parts.
- disaccustom — to cause to lose a habit: In the country I was quickly disaccustomed of sleeping late.
- disco music — 70s dance music
- dockominium — a dock or boat slip bought and sold as real property.
- documentary — Also, documental [dok-yuh-men-tl] /ˌdɒk yəˈmɛn tl/ (Show IPA). pertaining to, consisting of, or derived from documents: a documentary history of France.
- documenters — Plural form of documenter.
- documenting — Present participle of document.
- dummy block — a freely moving cylinder for transmitting the pressure of a ram to a piece being extruded.
- duodecimals — Plural form of duodecimal.
- eco-tourism — Eco-tourism is the business of providing holidays and related services which are not harmful to the environment of the area.
- ecoconsumer — A consumer who makes purchasing decisions partly or largely on the basis of ecological issues.
- emasculator — One who, or that which, emasculates.
- embouchures — Plural form of embouchure.
- emunctories — Plural form of emunctory.
- endocardium — The thin, smooth membrane that lines the inside of the chambers of the heart and forms the surface of the valves.
- endocranium — (anatomy) The layer between the dura mater and the skull.
- endothecium — (biology) The tissue found in the walls of anthers, and in moss capsules.
- escarmouche — a skirmish
- euchromatin — the part of a chromosome that constitutes the major genes and does not stain strongly with basic dyes when the cell is not dividing
- eudiometric — Of or relating to eudiometry.
- ferrocerium — an alloy of 65 percent misch metal and 35 percent iron, used in flints for cigarette lighters.
- film colour — a misty appearance produced when no lines or edges are present in the visual field
- formicarium — formicary.
- 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.
- furthcoming — an action raised to recover property which has been arrested in the hands of a third party
- glucosamine — an aminosugar occurring in many polysaccharides of vertebrate tissue and also as the major component of chitin.
- hercogamous — (of flowers) incapable of self-fertilization
- hippocampus — Classical Mythology. a sea horse with two forefeet, and a body ending in the tail of a dolphin or fish.
- homonuclear — a homonuclear molecule is composed of atoms of the same element or isotope and all of its nuclei are alike
- house music — an up-tempo style of disco music characterized by deep bass rhythms, piano or synthesizer melodies, and soul-music singing, sometimes with elements of rap music.
- humectation — A moistening.
- humouristic — Alternative spelling of humoristic.
- hyponychium — (anatomy) The thickened epithelium beneath a nail or claw.
- hypothecium — the layer of hyphal tissue directly beneath the hymenium of an apothecium.
- immunogenic — causing or capable of producing an immune response.
- immunologic — the branch of science dealing with the components of the immune system, immunity from disease, the immune response, and immunologic techniques of analysis.
- immunotoxic — of or relating to an immunotoxin
- impecunious — having little or no money; penniless; poor.
- importunacy — the quality or condition of being importunate; importunateness.