11-letter words containing n, o, c, l, u, r
- counterplay — a positive or aggressive action by the defending side, esp in chess
- counterplea — a reply to a plea
- counterplot — a plot designed to frustrate another plot
- counterploy — an opposing or retaliatory ploy
- counterpole — The exact opposite.
- counterseal — a smaller seal on the reverse of the main seal
- countervail — to act or act against with equal power or force
- countryfolk — people living or raised in the country; rustics.
- courtliness — polite, refined, or elegant: courtly manners.
- crenulation — any of the teeth or notches of a crenulate structure
- croquignole — a small crisp cake
- cupronickel — any ductile corrosion-resistant copper alloy containing up to 40 per cent nickel: used in coins, condenser tubes, turbine blades, etc
- 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.
- furunculous — Furuncular.
- glucuronide — a glycoside that yields glucuronic acid upon hydrolysis.
- granulocyte — a circulating white blood cell having prominent granules in the cytoplasm and a nucleus of two or more lobes.
- groundcloth — A groundcloth is a piece of waterproof material which you put on the ground to sleep on when you are camping.
- gun control — government regulation of the sale and ownership of firearms.
- homonuclear — a homonuclear molecule is composed of atoms of the same element or isotope and all of its nuclei are alike
- horn clause — (logic) A set of atomic literals with at most one positive literal. Usually written L <- L1, ..., Ln or <- L1, ..., Ln where n>=0, "<-" means "is implied by" and comma stands for conjuction ("AND"). If L is false the clause is regarded as a goal. Horn clauses can express a subset of statements of first order logic. The name "Horn Clause" comes from the logician Alfred Horn, who first pointed out the significance of such clauses in 1951, in the article "On sentences which are true of direct unions of algebras", Journal of Symbolic Logic, 16, 14-21. A definite clause is a Horn clause that has exactly one positive literal.
- incorruptly — Without corruption.
- incredulous — not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical.
- inculcatory — inculcating by nature, characterized by a tendency to inculcate
- inculpatory — to charge with fault; blame; accuse.
- incuriously — In an incurious manner.
- inoculatory — relating to inoculation
- intercouple — two of the same sort considered together; pair.
- intercupola — the space between an inner and an outer dome.
- interocular — being, or situated, between the eyes.
- intraocular — located or occurring within or administered through the eye.
- involucrate — having an involucre.
- juan carlos — King (Juan Carlos Alfonso Victor María de Borbón y Borbón) born 1938, Spanish monarch, born in Italy: king since 1975.
- larcenously — In a larcenous manner.
- latrocinium — highway robbery
- locutionary — pertaining to the act of conveying semantic content in an utterance, considered as independent of the interaction between the speaker and the listener.
- low-country — Often, Low-Country. of or relating to the Low Countries.
- lubrication — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
- lucubration — laborious work, study, thought, etc., especially at night.
- lucy stoner — a person who advocates the retention of the maiden name by married women. Compare Stone (def 5).
- macronuclei — Plural form of macronucleus.
- microfaunal — Of, or relating to, a microfauna.
- micronuclei — Plural form of micronucleus.
- monocularly — In a monocular manner.
- monoculture — the use of land for growing only one type of crop.
- mononuclear — Also, mononucleate. Cell Biology. having only one nucleus.
- multicarbon — having several carbon atoms
- mural crown — a golden crown formed with indentations to resemble a battlement, bestowed by the ancient Romans on the soldiers who first mounted the wall of a besieged place and there lodged a standard.
- neuroleptic — (chiefly of a drug) tending to reduce nervous tension by depressing nerve functions.