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11-letter words containing n, o, t, i, c

  • take notice — listen, heed
  • tautophonic — having or repeating the same sound
  • taxonomical — the science or technique of classification.
  • technicolor — (often lowercase) flamboyant or lurid, as in color, meaning, or detail.
  • technologic — of or relating to technology; relating to science and industry.
  • technomania — an obsessional enthusiasm for technology
  • technophile — a person who loves or is enthusiastic about advanced technology.
  • technopolis — a society with a concentration of technology-based businesses or an emphasis on technology
  • telescoping — an optical instrument for making distant objects appear larger and therefore nearer. One of the two principal forms (refracting telescope) consists essentially of an objective lens set into one end of a tube and an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses set into the other end of a tube that slides into the first and through which the enlarged object is viewed directly; the other form (reflecting telescope) has a concave mirror that gathers light from the object and focuses it into an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses through which the reflection of the object is enlarged and viewed. Compare radio telescope.
  • telocentric — of or relating to any chromosome or chromatid whose centromere is positioned at its end, creating one chromosome arm. Compare acentric (def 2), acrocentric, metacentric (def 2).
  • telodynamic — pertaining to the transmission of mechanical power over considerable distances, as by means of endless cables on pulleys.
  • tenaciously — holding fast; characterized by keeping a firm hold (often followed by of): a tenacious grip on my arm; tenacious of old habits.
  • tense logic — the study of the logical properties of tense operators, and of the logical relations between sentences having tense, by means of consideration of appropriate formal systems
  • teotihuacan — the ruins of an ancient Mesoamerican city in central Mexico, near Mexico City, that flourished a.d. c200–c750 and is the site of the pyramids of the Sun and Moon and of many temples, palaces, and dwellings.
  • teratogenic — a drug or other substance capable of interfering with the development of a fetus, causing birth defects.
  • the cornish — the natives or inhabitants of Cornwall
  • the council — the local governing authority of a town, county, etc
  • the miocene — this epoch or rock series
  • theocentric — having God as the focal point of thoughts, interests, and feelings: theocentric philosophy.
  • theogonical — of or relating to theogony
  • theotechnic — relating to or belonging to theotechny
  • thermionics — the branch of physics that deals with thermionic phenomena.
  • thermocline — a layer of water in an ocean or certain lakes, where the temperature gradient is greater than that of the warmer layer above and the colder layer below.
  • thermogenic — causing or pertaining to the production of heat.
  • thiocyanate — a salt or ester of thiocyanic acid, as sodium thiocyanate, NaSCN.
  • thrasonical — boastful; vainglorious.
  • tichorrhine — an extinct woolly rhinoceros with a bony nasal septum
  • ticking off — If you give someone a ticking off, you speak angrily to them because they have done something wrong.
  • ticonderoga — a village in NE New York, on Lake Champlain: site of French fort captured by the English 1759 and by Americans under Ethan Allen 1775.
  • tischendorf — Lobegott Friedrich Konstantin von [loh-buh-gawt free-drikh kawn-stahn-teen fuh n] /ˈloʊ bəˌgɔt ˈfri drɪx ˌkɔn stɑnˈtin fən/ (Show IPA), 1815–74, German Biblical critic.
  • titanomachy — the unsuccessful revolt of the family of the Titan Iapetus against Zeus
  • to a nicety — with precision
  • tobacconist — a dealer in tobacco, especially the owner of a store that sells pipe tobaccos, cigarettes, and cigars.
  • tocharian a — the eastern dialect of Tocharian
  • tocharian b — the western dialect of Tocharian
  • toe-curling — If you describe something as toe-curling, you mean that it makes you feel very embarrassed.
  • tom collins — a tall drink containing gin, lemon or lime juice, and carbonated water, sweetened and served with ice.
  • tonal music — music that uses the diatonic system
  • tonic spasm — Pathology. a sudden, abnormal, involuntary muscular contraction, consisting of a continued muscular contraction (tonic spasm) or of a series of alternating muscular contractions and relaxations (clonic spasm)
  • tonic water — drink: carbonated water
  • top slicing — mining of thick orebodies in a series of stopes from top to bottom, the roof being caved with its timbers as each stope is exhausted.
  • topocentric — as seen from, with reference to, or coordinating to a point on the surface of the earth
  • tostication — drunkenness, intoxication; confusion
  • totipotency — (of a cell or part) having the potential for developing in various specialized ways in response to external or internal stimuli.
  • touring car — an open automobile designed for five or more passengers.
  • townscaping — the act of designing a town
  • toxic noise — environmental noise which can damage your hearing, for example in an industrial workplace, at a music concert, etc
  • toxicogenic — generating or producing toxic products or poisons.
  • toxicomania — a morbid desire for poisonous substances; drug addiction
  • tracheation — the arrangement of tracheae in insects and other arthropods.
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