11-letter words containing o, n, s, t, r
- brownstoner — a person who lives in or owns a brownstone house.
- burnet rose — a very prickly Eurasian rose, Rosa pimpinellifolia, with white flowers and purplish-black fruits
- burrowstown — a burgh town
- bus network — (networking) A network topology in which all nodes are connected to a single wire or set of wires (the bus). Bus networks typically use CSMA/CD techniques to determine which node should transmit data at any given time. Some networks are implemented as a bus, e.g. Ethernet - a one-bit bus operating at 10, 100, 1000 or 10,000 megabits per second. Originally Ethernet was a physical layer bus consisting of a wire (with terminators at each end) to which each node was attached. Switched Ethernet, while no longer physically a bus still acts as one at the logical layers.
- button rose — a small rose whose flowers form a round head
- candy store — a shop solely or largely selling confectionery
- cargo pants — Cargo pants are large, loose pants with lots of pockets.
- carillonist — a carillonneur
- carnaptious — ill-tempered or cantankerous
- carotenoids — Plural form of carotenoid.
- carson city — a city in W Nevada, capital of the state. Pop: 55 311 (2003 est)
- cartoonists — Plural form of cartoonist.
- cast anchor — to anchor a vessel
- 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.
- castor bean — the seed of this plant
- castrations — Plural form of castration.
- cenancestor — The last ancestor common of two or more lineages, especially the last universal common ancestor of all life.
- centerfolds — Plural form of centerfold.
- centromeres — Plural form of centromere.
- centrosomal — Of or pertaining to a centrosome or centrosomes.
- centrosomes — Plural form of centrosome.
- centrosomic — Relating to the centrosome.
- ceratopsian — resembling or belonging to the Ceratopsia, a suborder of herbivorous dinosaurs characterized by their parrot-like beaks, horns, and neck frills
- 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.
- charlestown — oldest part of Boston, at the mouth of the Charles River: site of the battle of Bunker Hill
- cherrystone — a small or not fully-grown edible clam of the genus Mercenaria, found in the waters off the Atlantic coast of North America
- chevrotains — Plural form of chevrotain.
- chlorinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chlorinate.
- cholesterin — a sterol, C 27 H 46 O, that occurs in all animal tissues, especially in the brain, spinal cord, and adipose tissue, functioning chiefly as a protective agent in the skin and myelin sheaths of nerve cells, a detoxifier in the bloodstream, and as a precursor of many steroids: deposits of cholesterol form in certain pathological conditions, as gallstones and atherosclerotic plaques.
- chrismation — a rite of initiation involving anointing with chrism and taking place at the same time as baptism
- christendom — All the Christian people and countries in the world can be referred to as Christendom.
- cineritious — See cinereous.
- clinometers — Plural form of clinometer.
- cloistering — Present participle of cloister.
- coast range — a series of mountain ranges along the Pacific coast of North America, extending from Baja California to SE Alaska.
- coasteering — the sport of following a coastline by swimming, climbing, diving, and walking while wearing a wetsuit, a life jacket, and a helmet
- coconstruct — To construct together.
- coextrusion — simultaneous extrusion of two or more different yet compatible metals or plastics through the same die.
- combinators — Plural form of combinator.
- compensator — a person or thing that compensates
- con spirito — (to be performed) in a spirited or lively manner (also in the phrases allegro con spirito, presto con spirito)
- concertinas — Plural form of concertina.
- concertinos — Plural form of concertino.
- concrescent — Growing together.
- concretions — Plural form of concretion.
- conductress — a female conductor
- confiscator — to seize as forfeited to the public domain; appropriate, by way of penalty, for public use.
- conformists — Plural form of conformist.
- congregants — Plural form of congregant.
- congregates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of congregate.