11-letter words containing n, o, c, e
- cordilleran — a mountain system in W South America: the Andes and its component ranges.
- cordon bleu — Cordon bleu is used to describe cookery or cooks of the highest standard.
- cordwainery — Shoemaking.
- core cancer — (jargon) A process that exhibits a slow but inexorable resource leak - like a cancer, it kills by crowding out productive "tissue".
- corecipient — a joint recipient
- coreference — a relationship between two words or phrases in which both refer to the same person or thing and one stands as a linguistic antecedent of the other, as the two pronouns in She taught herself but not in She taught her.
- coresidence — (anthropology) Living together, sharing a residence, as of an adult child with a parent.
- corn cockle — a tall annual weed (Agrostemma githago) of the pink family, with flat, pinkish flowers and poisonous seeds, often found in grainfields
- corn dodger — South Midland and Southern U.S. a small, usually oval cake made of corn bread and baked or fried hard in a skillet.
- corn gluten — gluten separated from corn during milling, used primarily as a livestock feed.
- corn picker — a machine for picking the ears of corn from standing stalks and removing the husks.
- corn-picker — a machine for removing ears of maize from the standing stalks, often also equipped to separate the corn from the husk and shell
- corncockles — Plural form of corncockle.
- corndodgers — Plural form of corndodger.
- corned beef — Corned beef is beef which has been cooked and preserved in salt water.
- corner flag — a flag placed on a short pole marking a corner of a football pitch
- corner kick — a free kick taken from the corner of the field after the defending side has played the ball behind their own goal line
- corner rack — A corner rack is a shelving unit designed to fit into corners to maximize space.
- corner shop — A corner shop is a small shop, usually on the corner of a street, that sells mainly food and household goods.
- cornerbacks — Plural form of cornerback.
- cornerstone — The cornerstone of something is the basic part of it on which its existence, success, or truth depends.
- cornflowers — Plural form of cornflower.
- cornhuskers — Plural form of cornhusker.
- corniculate — having horns or hornlike projections
- corniferous — producing or containing chert
- cornigerous — horned
- cornish rex — a breed of cat with a very soft wavy coat, a small head, large eyes, and very large ears
- corpulently — In a corpulent manner.
- corrections — Plural form of correction.
- correctness — to set or make true, accurate, or right; remove the errors or faults from: The native guide corrected our pronunciation. The new glasses corrected his eyesight.
- correlating — to place in or bring into mutual or reciprocal relation; establish in orderly connection: to correlate expenses and income.
- correlation — A correlation between things is a connection or link between them.
- corresponds — Have a close similarity; match or agree almost exactly.
- corrigendum — an error to be corrected
- corruptness — guilty of dishonest practices, as bribery; lacking integrity; crooked: a corrupt judge.
- coscenarist — one of two or more joint scenarists.
- cosmetician — a person who makes, sells, or applies cosmetics
- cosmogonies — Plural form of cosmogony.
- cosponsored — Simple past tense and past participle of cosponsor.
- cost center — A cost center is a department in a company that does not bring the company direct profit.
- cost centre — a unit, such as a department of a company, to which costs may be allocated for cost accounting purposes
- cost-in-use — the cost of owning, running, or using something
- costiveness — suffering from constipation; constipated.
- coterminous — having a common boundary; bordering; contiguous
- cotoneaster — any Old World shrub of the rosaceous genus Cotoneaster: cultivated for their small ornamental white or pinkish flowers and red or black berries
- cotransduce — to cause (genes) to undergo cotransduction
- cotton belt — a belt of land in the southeastern US that specializes in the production of cotton
- cotton cake — cottonseed meal compressed into nuts or cubes of various sizes for feeding to animals
- cotton lace — machine-made lace made from cotton
- cottonseeds — Plural form of cottonseed.