11-letter words containing o, c, a, s
- ascensional — (astronomy) Relating to ascension.
- asciibonics — (chat) (From ASCII and Ebonics) A style of text communication in English which is most common on talk systems such as irc. Its notable characteristics are: Typing all in lowercase (and occasionally all in uppercase). Copious use of abbreviations of the sort "u" for "you" "1" for "one" (and therefore "some1" for "someone", "ne1" for "anyone"), "2" for "to", "r" for "are", etc. A general lack of punctuation, except for strings of question marks and exclamation marks. Common use of the idiom "m or f?", meant to elicit a statement of the listener's gender. Typical extended discourse in ASCIIbonics: "hey wasup ne1 want 2 cyber?" "m or f?" ASCIIbonics is similar to the way B1FF talked, although B1FF used more punctuation (lots more), and used all uppercase, rather than all lowercase. What's more, B1FF was only interested in warez, and so never asked "m or f?". It has been widely observed that some of the purest examples of ASCIIbonics come from non-native speakers of English. The phenomenon of ASCIIbonics predates by several years the use of the word "ASCIIbonics", as the word could only have been coined in or after late 1996, when "Ebonics" was first used in the US media to denote the US English dialects known in the linguistic literature as "Black Vernacular English".
- ascititious — having been added to from something inessential or separate
- ascomycetes — any fungus of the phylum Ascomycota (or class Ascomycetes), including the molds and truffles, characterized by bearing the sexual spores in a sac (as distinguished from basidiomycete).
- ascriptions — Plural form of ascription.
- associating — to connect or bring into relation, as thought, feeling, memory, etc.: Many people associate dark clouds with depression and gloom.
- association — An association is an official group of people who have the same job, aim, or interest.
- associative — Associative thoughts are things that you think of because you see, hear, or think of something that reminds you of those things or which you associate with those things.
- associators — Plural form of associator.
- asteraceous — belonging to the Asterasceae, an alternative name for the plant family Compositae.
- astrocytoma — a tumour of the nervous system which originates in and consists mainly of astrocytes
- astromancer — divination by means of the stars.
- astrometric — (astronomy) of or relating to astrometry.
- astronautic — Of or pertaining to astronautics.
- asyncronous — (spelling) It's spelled "asynchronous".
- at any cost — If you say that something must be done at any cost, you are emphasizing that it must be done, even if this requires a lot of effort or money.
- atactostele — (botany) A type of eustele, found in monocots, in which the vascular tissue in the stem exists as scattered bundles.
- atmospheric — Atmospheric is used to describe something which relates to the Earth's atmosphere.
- atomic mass — the mass of an isotope of an element in atomic mass units
- atomtronics — (physics) The design, manufacture and study of analogs of electronics using atoms (especially Bose-Einstein condensates) at low temperature.
- atrociously — extremely or shockingly wicked, cruel, or brutal: an atrocious crime.
- attophysics — the physics of structures and artefacts with dimensions in the attometre range or of devices, such as lasers, capable of producing pulses with a duration measured in attoseconds
- attractions — Plural form of attraction.
- auctioneers — Plural form of auctioneer.
- audaciously — extremely bold or daring; recklessly brave; fearless: an audacious explorer.
- austromancy — Soothsaying, or prediction of events, from observation of the winds or cloud formations.
- autochthons — Plural form of autochthon.
- autocracies — Plural form of autocracy.
- autodidacts — Plural form of autodidact.
- autofocuses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of autofocus.
- autoplastic — Of or pertaining to autoplasty.
- babelicious — (of a woman) sexually very attractive.
- bacciferous — bearing berries
- baccivorous — feeding on berries
- bachelorism — bachelorhood
- backcrossed — Simple past tense and past participle of backcross.
- backcrosses — Plural form of backcross.
- backgammons — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backgammon.
- backgrounds — Plural form of background.
- backside-to — backend-to.
- backsolving — Present participle of backsolve.
- backstopped — Simple past tense and past participle of backstop.
- backstopper — a wall, wire screen, or the like, serving to prevent a ball from going too far beyond the normal playing area.
- backstroker — a person who swims the backstroke, especially a member of a competitive swimming team who specializes in the backstroke.
- backstrokes — Plural form of backstroke.
- bacteriosis — any bacterial disease
- bacteroides — any of several rod-shaped, anaerobic bacteria of the genus Bacteroides, occurring in the alimentary and genitourinary tracts of humans and other mammals, certain species of which are pathogenic.
- baculovirus — any of a family of viruses that attack insects and other arthropods, used as biological pesticides
- badderlocks — a seaweed, Alaria esculenta, that has long brownish-green fronds and is eaten in parts of N Europe
- baroceptors — Plural form of baroceptor.