11-letter words containing n, o, s, u
- contentious — A contentious issue causes a lot of disagreement or arguments.
- continuants — Plural form of continuant.
- contrarious — (of people or animals) perverse or obstinate
- contrecoups — Plural form of contrecoup.
- contributes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contribute.
- 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.
- contumelies — Plural form of contumely.
- conventuals — Plural form of conventual.
- 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.
- copiousness — large in quantity or number; abundant; plentiful: copious amounts of food.
- cornhuskers — Plural form of cornhusker.
- cornhusking — the removal of the husk from corn
- corniferous — producing or containing chert
- cornigerous — horned
- cornucopias — Plural form of cornucopia.
- coronavirus — a type of airborne virus accounting for 10-30% of all colds
- corruptions — Plural form of corruption.
- corruptness — guilty of dishonest practices, as bribery; lacking integrity; crooked: a corrupt judge.
- coruscating — A coruscating speech or performance is lively, intelligent, and impressive.
- coruscation — a gleam or flash of light
- cosmonautic — Of or related to cosmonauts or cosmonautics.
- cost-in-use — the cost of owning, running, or using something
- coterminous — having a common boundary; bordering; contiguous
- cotransduce — to cause (genes) to undergo cotransduction
- cotton bush — any of various downy chenopodiaceous shrubs, esp Kochia aphylla, which is used to feed livestock
- councillors — Plural form of councillor.
- counselings — professional guidance in resolving personal conflicts and emotional problems.
- counsellers — Plural form of counseller.
- counselling — Counselling is advice which a therapist or other expert gives to someone about a particular problem.
- counsellors — Plural form of counsellor.
- count noses — to count the number of people present, voting, etc.
- counteracts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of counteract.
- counterbase — a double bass
- counterbids — Plural form of counterbid.
- counterions — Plural form of counterion.
- counterpose — to place (something) in opposition to
- countersank — Simple past form of countersink.
- counterseal — a smaller seal on the reverse of the main seal
- countershot — a sequence of frames seen from the perspective of the subject of the previous shot
- countersign — If you countersign a document, you sign it after someone else has signed it.
- countersing — (ethology, of a bird) To sing in response to the song of another.
- countersink — to enlarge the upper part of (a hole) in timber, metal, etc, so that the head of a bolt or screw can be sunk below the surface
- counterstep — an opposing step or measure
- countersued — Simple past tense and past participle of countersue.
- countersuit — a legal claim made as a reaction to a claim made against one
- countersunk — driven or sunk into an enlarged hole