11-letter words containing n, o, c, u
- contaminous — to make impure or unsuitable by contact or mixture with something unclean, bad, etc.: to contaminate a lake with sewage.
- contentious — A contentious issue causes a lot of disagreement or arguments.
- continually — very often; at regular or frequent intervals; habitually.
- continuance — The continuance of something is its continuation.
- continuants — Plural form of continuant.
- continuator — a person who continues something, esp the work of someone else
- continuedly — in a continued manner
- contour map — a map that indicates the physical features of the land; topographic map
- contractual — A contractual arrangement or relationship involves a legal agreement between people.
- contracture — a disorder in which a skeletal muscle is permanently tightened (contracted), most often caused by spasm or paralysis of the antagonist muscle that maintains normal muscle tension
- contrarious — (of people or animals) perverse or obstinate
- contre-jour — the technique of taking photographs into the light, with the light source behind the subject
- contrecoups — Plural form of contrecoup.
- contributed — to give (money, time, knowledge, assistance, etc.) to a common supply, fund, etc., as for charitable purposes.
- contributer — Misspelling of contributor.
- contributes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contribute.
- contributor — You can use contributor to refer to one of the causes of an event or situation, especially if that event or situation is an unpleasant one.
- control bus — (architecture) In a digital computer, the signal paths that carry commands from the instruction decode logic to various different functional units such as the ALU, memory address register, memory data register and other buffers. Named by analogy with the address bus and data bus, each of which carries a set of related signals, the signals carried by the control bus are more independent. Some might include other signals such as timing (clock) and status under the term, further reducing its similarity to other busses.
- contubernal — occupying the same tent
- contumacity — the quality of being contumacious
- contumelies — Plural form of contumely.
- conurbation — A conurbation consists of a large city together with the smaller towns around it.
- conventuals — Plural form of conventual.
- convex hull — the smallest convex set containing a given set; the intersection of all convex sets that contain a given set.
- convoluting — rolled up together or with one part over another.
- convolution — Convolutions are curves on an object or design that has a lot of curves.
- convolvulus — any typically twining herbaceous convolvulaceous plant of the genus Convolvulus, having funnel-shaped flowers and triangular leaves
- convulsants — Plural form of convulsant.
- convulsible — capable of becoming intensely agitated
- convulsions — contortion of the body caused by violent, involuntary muscular contractions of the extremities, trunk, and head.
- convulvulus — Misspelling of convolvulus A plant of the bindweed family.
- cooccurring — Present participle of cooccur.
- cool hunter — a person who is employed to identify future trends, esp in fashion or the media
- copernicium — a highly radioactive element that is produced synthetically. Symbol: Cn; atomic no: 112; atomic wt: 285
- copiousness — large in quantity or number; abundant; plentiful: copious amounts of food.
- cordon bleu — Cordon bleu is used to describe cookery or cooks of the highest standard.
- corn gluten — gluten separated from corn during milling, used primarily as a livestock feed.
- corn liquor — an alcoholic drink distilled from corn mash
- corn muffin — a muffin, often shaped like a cupcake, made from cornmeal.
- cornhuskers — Plural form of cornhusker.
- cornhusking — the removal of the husk from corn
- corniculate — having horns or hornlike projections
- corniferous — producing or containing chert
- cornigerous — horned
- cornucopian — Classical Mythology. a horn containing food, drink, etc., in endless supply, said to have been a horn of the goat Amalthaea.
- cornucopias — Plural form of cornucopia.
- coronavirus — a type of airborne virus accounting for 10-30% of all colds
- corpulently — In a corpulent manner.
- corrigendum — an error to be corrected
- corrugating — Present participle of corrugate.