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11-letter words containing n, o, s, l, i, c

  • convulsions — contortion of the body caused by violent, involuntary muscular contractions of the extremities, trunk, and head.
  • cor anglais — a woodwind instrument, the alto of the oboe family. It is a transposing instrument in F. Range: two and a half octaves upwards from E on the third space of the bass staff
  • cordialness — The state or quality of being cordial.
  • cottontails — Plural form of cottontail.
  • councillors — Plural form of councillor.
  • counselings — professional guidance in resolving personal conflicts and emotional problems.
  • counselling — Counselling is advice which a therapist or other expert gives to someone about a particular problem.
  • courtliness — polite, refined, or elegant: courtly manners.
  • cowansville — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada.
  • cunobelinus — also called Cymbeline. died ?42 ad, British ruler of the Catuvellauni tribe (?10–?42); founder of Colchester (?10)
  • cushionless — without a cushion
  • cycloserine — an antibiotic effective in the treatment of tuberculosis
  • cyclosporin — a substance, synthesized by certain soil fungi, that suppresses the immune response by disabling helper T cells, used to minimize rejection of foreign tissue transplants.
  • cylindroids — Plural form of cylindroid.
  • cynophilist — a person with a love of dogs
  • declensions — Plural form of declension.
  • decolonised — Simple past tense and past participle of decolonise.
  • decolonizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decolonize.
  • deflections — Plural form of deflection.
  • deschooling — to abolish or phase out traditional schools from, so as to replace them with alternative methods and forms of education.
  • discoloring — Present participle of discolor.
  • disenclosed — Simple past tense and past participle of disenclose.
  • dislocating — Present participle of dislocate.
  • dislocation — an act or instance of dislocating.
  • docibleness — the quality or character of being docible
  • downscaling — Present participle of downscale.
  • electronics — (physics) The study and use of electrical devices that operate by controlling the flow of electrons or other electrically charged particles.
  • endoplasmic — (cytology) of, or relating to endoplasm.
  • escalations — Plural form of escalation.
  • escallonias — Plural form of escallonia.
  • flucytosine — a synthetic whitish crystalline powder, C 4 H 4 FN 3 O, with antifungal activity, used in the treatment of systemic and eye fungal infections caused by susceptible strains of Candida or Cryptococcus.
  • 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.
  • fluorescing — Present participle of fluoresce.
  • fluticasone — (organic compound) A synthetic corticosteroid whose furoate and propionate forms are used as topical anti-inflammatories.
  • foreclosing — Present participle of foreclose.
  • full cousin — cousin (def 1).
  • functionals — Plural form of functional.
  • genius loci — the guardian spirit of a place.
  • geosyncline — a portion of the earth's crust subjected to downward warping during a large span of geologic time; a geosynclinal fold.
  • glaciations — Plural form of glaciation.
  • glucokinase — an enzyme, found in all living systems, that serves to catalyze the phosphorylation of gluconic acid.
  • glucosamine — an aminosugar occurring in many polysaccharides of vertebrate tissue and also as the major component of chitin.
  • goldfinches — Plural form of goldfinch.
  • iconoclasts — Plural form of iconoclast.
  • iconophiles — a connoisseur of icons or images.
  • in close-up — If you see something in close-up, you see it in great detail in a photograph or piece of film which has been taken very near to the subject.
  • in lockstep — When members of the armed forces march in lockstep, they march very close to each other.
  • incompletes — Plural form of incomplete.
  • incredulous — not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical.
  • incuriously — In an incurious manner.
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