11-letter words containing o, n, i, u
- antitumoral — Antitumor.
- antiutopian — Opposing utopian values.
- anvil cloud — another name for a cumulonimbus cloud, which tends to be anvil-shaped
- anxiousness — full of mental distress or uneasiness because of fear of danger or misfortune; greatly worried; solicitous: Her parents were anxious about her poor health.
- aponeurosis — a white fibrous sheet of tissue by which certain muscles are attached to bones
- aponeurotic — a whitish, fibrous membrane that connects a muscle to a bone or fascia.
- appropinque — to approach
- archegonium — a female sex organ, occurring in mosses, spore-bearing vascular plants, and gymnosperms, that produces a single egg cell in its swollen base
- arenicolous — growing or living in sand or sandy places
- assumptions — something taken for granted; a supposition: a correct assumption. Synonyms: presupposition; hypothesis, conjecture, guess, postulate, theory.
- astronautic — Of or pertaining to astronautics.
- at gunpoint — If you are held at gunpoint, someone is threatening to shoot and kill you if you do not obey them.
- attenuation — the act of attenuating or the state of being attenuated
- attribution — the act of attributing; ascription.
- attuitional — of or relating to attuition
- auction off — If you auction off something, you sell it to the person who offers the most money for it, often at an auction.
- auctioneers — Plural form of auctioneer.
- auditionees — a person who competes or takes part in an audition.
- auditioning — Present participle of audition.
- austronesia — the islands of the central and S Pacific, including Indonesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia
- authorising — Present participle of authorise.
- authorizing — Present participle of authorize.
- auto racing — the sport of racing automobiles in which drivers compete against each other on a course designed for racing or on closed public roads.
- auto-immune — Auto-immune describes medical conditions in which normal cells are attacked by the body's immune system.
- autoantigen — an antigen of one's own cells or cell products.
- autoclaving — Present participle of autoclave.
- autodynamic — Supplying its own power.
- autogenesis — spontaneous generation
- autogenetic — self-generated.
- autokinesis — a visual illusion occurring in low light, in which a stationary bright spot appears to be moving
- autokinetic — automatically self-moving
- autoloading — self-loading
- autonomical — autonomous.
- autowinders — Plural form of autowinder.
- autozeroing — (electronics) A sampling technique that measures an offset from zero and later compensates by subtracting the difference.
- badmouthing — Slang. to speak critically and often disloyally of; disparage: Why do you bad-mouth your family so much?
- barfulation — /bar`fyoo-lay'sh*n/ Variation of barf used around the Stanford area. An exclamation, expressing disgust. On seeing some particularly bad code one might exclaim, "Barfulation! Who wrote this, Quux?"
- bedding out — the process of planting out young flowering plants in beds
- belorussian — of Belarus or its people, language, or culture
- beurre noir — a sauce of darkly browned butter, sometimes flavored with herbs, vinegar, etc.
- bifurcation — the act or fact of bifurcating
- biliousness — Physiology, Pathology. pertaining to bile or to an excess secretion of bile.
- binocularly — relating to the use of two eyes at once
- bioindustry — an industry that makes use of biotechnology and other advanced life science methodologies in the creation or alteration of life forms or processes
- bivouacking — a military encampment made with tents or improvised shelters, usually without shelter or protection from enemy fire.
- bludgeoning — a short, heavy club with one end weighted, or thicker and heavier than the other.
- blue ribbon — A blue ribbon is the same as a blue riband.
- blue-ribbon — of superior quality or prominence; first-rate; specially selected: a blue-ribbon committee of fund-raisers.
- bombing run — the part of a flight of a bomber aircraft that brings it to the point over a target at which its bombs are released
- bonus issue — an issue of shares made by a company without charge and distributed pro rata among existing shareholders