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11-letter words containing o, c, e, l, u, s

  • 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.
  • fluorescent — possessing the property of fluorescence; exhibiting fluorescence.
  • fluorescing — Present participle of fluoresce.
  • fluoroscope — a tube or box fitted with a screen coated with a fluorescent substance, used for viewing objects, especially deep body structures, by means of x-ray or other radiation.
  • fluticasone — (organic compound) A synthetic corticosteroid whose furoate and propionate forms are used as topical anti-inflammatories.
  • folliculose — having or resembling follicles
  • foreclosure — the act of foreclosing a mortgage or pledge.
  • fruticulose — (botany) Like, or pertaining to, a small shrub.
  • gas vacuole — a gas-filled structure that provides buoyancy in some aquatic bacteria
  • genius loci — the guardian spirit of a place.
  • 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.
  • glucosidase — (enzyme) Any enzyme that hydrolyses glucosides.
  • glycogenous — of or relating to the formation of sugar in the liver.
  • golf course — the ground or course over which golf is played. A standard full-scale golf course has 125 to 175 acres (51 to 71 hectares), usually with 18 holes varying from 100 to 650 yards (91 to 594 meters) in length from tee to cup.
  • groupuscule — A political or religious splinter group.
  • honeylocust — any of a genus (Gleditsia) of trees of the caesalpinia family, esp. a North American species (G. triacanthos) usually having strong, thorny branches, featherlike foliage, and large, twisted pods containing beanlike seeds and a sweet pulp
  • honeysuckle — any upright or climbing shrub of the genus Diervilla, especially D. lonicera, cultivated for its fragrant white, yellow, or red tubular flowers.
  • horn clause — (logic)   A set of atomic literals with at most one positive literal. Usually written L <- L1, ..., Ln or <- L1, ..., Ln where n>=0, "<-" means "is implied by" and comma stands for conjuction ("AND"). If L is false the clause is regarded as a goal. Horn clauses can express a subset of statements of first order logic. The name "Horn Clause" comes from the logician Alfred Horn, who first pointed out the significance of such clauses in 1951, in the article "On sentences which are true of direct unions of algebras", Journal of Symbolic Logic, 16, 14-21. A definite clause is a Horn clause that has exactly one positive literal.
  • house place — (in medieval architecture) a room common to all the inhabitants of a house, as a hall.
  • house-clean — to clean the inside of a person's house
  • hpcode-plus — A descendant of HPcode with data types, developed to be an ANDF language.
  • 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.
  • incredulous — not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical.
  • inosculated — Simple past tense and past participle of inosculate.
  • inosculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inosculate.
  • isoleucines — Plural form of isoleucine.
  • lactiferous — producing or secreting milk: lactiferous glands.
  • larcenously — In a larcenous manner.
  • launch shoe — an attachment to an aircraft from which a missile is launched
  • lecherously — given to or characterized by lechery; lustful.
  • leucoplasia — a disorder of a mucous membrane characterized by one or more white patches, occurring most commonly on the cheek, tongue, vulva, or penis: often medically insignificant but sometimes becoming malignant.
  • leucoplasts — Plural form of leucoplast.
  • levoglucose — a sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , having several optically different forms, the common dextrorotatory form (dextroglucose, or -glucose) occurring in many fruits, animal tissues and fluids, etc., and having a sweetness about one half that of ordinary sugar, and the rare levorotatory form (levoglucose, or -glucose) not naturally occurring.
  • locust bean — carob.
  • loose scrum — a play in which a bunch of players gather around an opponent's dropped ball and then attempt to gain possession of the ball.
  • lucy stoner — a person who advocates the retention of the maiden name by married women. Compare Stone (def 5).
  • lythraceous — belonging to the Lythraceae, the loosestrife family of plants.
  • moscow mule — a cocktail of vodka, lime juice, and ginger beer, traditionally served in a copper mug.
  • multicourse — a direction or route taken or to be taken.
  • multisource — Employing multiple sources.
  • musclebound — having enlarged and inelastic muscles, as from excessive exercise.
  • music lover — sb who enjoys listening to music
  • non-closure — the act of closing; the state of being closed.
  • nonspecular — that reflects light diffusely and evenly over the hemisphere surrounding the reflective surface; diffuse
  • noun clause — a subordinate clause that functions as a noun within a main clause.
  • nucleobases — Plural form of nucleobase.
  • nucleoplasm — the protoplasm of the nucleus of a cell.
  • nucleosomal — Of or pertaining to a nucleosome.
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