11-letter words containing n, u, c
- cut corners — to do something in the easiest and shortest way, esp at the expense of high standards
- cut it fine — to allow little margin of time, space, etc
- cut-and-try — marked by a procedure of trial and error; empirical: Many scientific advances are achieved with a cut-and-try approach.
- cutaneously — In a cutaneous way.
- cuts no ice — If you say that something cuts no ice with you, you mean that you are not impressed or influenced by it.
- cutting oil — a specially prepared oil used as a cutting fluid.
- cuttlebones — Plural form of cuttlebone.
- cyano group — the univalent group CN; cyanogen.
- cyclobutane — (uncountable, organic compound) A simple alicyclic hydrocarbon, C4H8; a light inflammable gas.
- cymophanous — lustrous; brilliant
- cypherpunks — Plural form of cypherpunk.
- cystogenous — forming or secreting cysts
- dance music — music that is suitable for dancing
- dawn chorus — The dawn chorus is the singing of birds at dawn.
- debauchment — The act of debauching or corrupting; the act of seducing from virtue or duty.
- debouchment — the act or an instance of debouching
- declinature — the act of refusing politely
- declutching — Present participle of declutch.
- decommunize — to return (property) from public to private ownership
- decompounds — Plural form of decompound.
- deconstruct — In philosophy and literary criticism, to deconstruct an idea or text means to show the contradictions in its meaning, and to show how it does not fully explain what it claims to explain.
- decurionate — the post or position of a decurion
- decurvation — the act of curving downwards
- decussating — Present participle of decussate.
- decussation — a decussating or being decussated
- defunctness — The state or quality of being defunct.
- deinonychus — a genus of carnivorous dinosaur which existed in the early Cretaceous period, notable for the unusually large curved claws on the second toe of its feet
- delinquency — Delinquency is criminal behaviour, especially that of young people.
- delinquincy — Alternative form of delinquency.
- denticulate — very finely toothed
- denunciated — Simple past tense and past participle of denunciate.
- denunciates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of denunciate.
- destructing — serving or designed to destroy: a destruct mechanism on a missile.
- destruction — Destruction is the act of destroying something, or the state of being destroyed.
- detumescent — characterized by detumescence
- deutschland — Germany
- dick around — to spend time wastefully or unprofitably
- die-cutting — the cutting by machine of paper or card into shapes with sharp steel knives, such as in the manufacture of cardboard boxes
- discontinue — to put an end to; stop; terminate: to discontinue nuclear testing.
- discounters — Plural form of discounter.
- discounting — Present participle of discount.
- discoursing — communication of thought by words; talk; conversation: earnest and intelligent discourse.
- discussants — Plural form of discussant.
- discussions — Plural form of discussion.
- disencumber — to free from a burden or other encumbrance; disburden.
- disfunction — dysfunction.
- disjunction — the act of disjoining or the state of being disjoined: a disjunction between thought and action.
- disjunctive — serving or tending to disjoin; separating; dividing; distinguishing.
- disjuncture — the act of disjoining or the state of being disjoined; disjunction.
- distincture — distinctness