11-letter words containing o, n, i
- carrying-on — unconventional or questionable behaviour
- carson city — a city in W Nevada, capital of the state. Pop: 55 311 (2003 est)
- cartoonists — Plural form of cartoonist.
- cartoonlike — cartoonish
- caseinogens — Plural form of caseinogen.
- cash income — income received in the form of cash during a specified period, esp that of rural and farming households
- casing shoe — A casing shoe is the bottom of the casing string, including the cement around it.
- castigation — to criticize or reprimand severely.
- castiglione — Count Baldassare (baldasˈsaːre). 1478–1529, Italian diplomat and writer, noted particularly for his dialogue on ideal courtly life, Il Libro del Cortegiano (The Courtier) (1528)
- casting rod — a fishing rod, generally 4–8 feet (1.2–2.4 meters) long, for casting bait or lures with a reel mounted near the handle that enables the thumb or finger to control the line during a cast, including rods used for bait casting and spinning.
- castrations — Plural form of castration.
- cataloguing — a list or record, as of items for sale or courses at a university, systematically arranged and often including descriptive material: a stamp catalog.
- cataphonics — catacoustics
- catonsville — a town in central Maryland, near Baltimore.
- cauligenous — originating or protruding from the stem of a plant
- causational — the action of causing or producing.
- cavillation — any objection made to or dispute raised about trivial points or frivolities
- cefmenoxime — A particular third-generation cephalosporin antibiotic.
- ceftriaxone — (pharmaceutical drug) A synthetic cephalosporin antibiotic.
- celebration — A celebration is a special enjoyable event that people organize because something pleasant has happened or because it is someone's birthday or anniversary.
- cell fusion — the merging of two or more cells into a single cell.
- cementation — the process of heating a solid with a powdered material to modify the properties of the solid, esp the heating of wrought iron, surrounded with charcoal, to 750–900°C to produce steel
- cenogenesis — the development of structures in the embryonic or larval stage of an organism that are adaptive and do not appear in the evolutionary history of its group
- cenospecies — a species related to another by the ability to interbreed
- centimorgan — a unit of chromosome length, used in genetic mapping, equal to the length of chromosome over which crossing over occurs with 1 per cent frequency
- centipoises — Plural form of centipoise.
- centrobaric — of or concerned with a centre of gravity
- centromeric — Pertaining to, or characteristic of centromeres.
- centrosomic — Relating to the centrosome.
- centuriator — a historian who compiles work by centuries, esp one of the writers of the Magdeburg Centuries
- cephalothin — a cephalosporin antibiotic often used in the treatment of bacterial infections
- ceratopsian — resembling or belonging to the Ceratopsia, a suborder of herbivorous dinosaurs characterized by their parrot-like beaks, horns, and neck frills
- cerebration — the act of thinking; consideration; thought
- ceremonials — Plural form of ceremonial.
- ceremonious — especially or excessively polite or formal
- cga monitor — a type of (early) computer monitor designed to operate with CGA technology
- chain coral — coral of the extinct genus Halysites, from the Ordovician and Silurian periods, consisting of oval, laterally compressed corallites united to form a chainlike structure.
- chain store — A chain store is one of several similar shops that are owned by the same person or company, especially one that sells a variety of things.
- chain-smoke — Someone who chain-smokes smokes cigarettes or cigars continuously.
- chairperson — The chairperson of a meeting, committee, or organization is the person in charge of it.
- chalcedonic — Of or pertaining to chalcedony.
- chameleonic — any of numerous Old World lizards of the family Chamaeleontidae, characterized by the ability to change the color of their skin, very slow locomotion, and a projectile tongue.
- champignons — Plural form of champignon.
- championess — a female champion
- championing — a person who has defeated all opponents in a competition or series of competitions, so as to hold first place: the heavyweight boxing champion.
- champollion — Jean François (ʒɑ̃ frɑ̃swa). 1790–1832, French Egyptologist, who deciphered the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta stone
- chansonnier — a writer of chansons
- chaoticness — The state or quality of being chaotic.
- chaperoning — a person, usually a married or older woman, who, for propriety, accompanies a young unmarried woman in public or who attends a party of young unmarried men and women.
- chaperonins — Plural form of chaperonin.