11-letter words containing o, n, s, t
- contrastive — tending to contrast; contrasting. contrastive colors.
- contravenes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contravene.
- contrecoups — Plural form of contrecoup.
- contredanse — a courtly Continental version of the English country dance, similar to the quadrille
- contretemps — A contretemps is a small disagreement that is rather embarrassing.
- contributes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contribute.
- contrivings — Plural form of contriving.
- control bus — (architecture) In a digital computer, the signal paths that carry commands from the instruction decode logic to various different functional units such as the ALU, memory address register, memory data register and other buffers. Named by analogy with the address bus and data bus, each of which carries a set of related signals, the signals carried by the control bus are more independent. Some might include other signals such as timing (clock) and status under the term, further reducing its similarity to other busses.
- controllers — Plural form of controller.
- controlless — to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds. That zone is controlled by enemy troops.
- controverse — a controversy
- controversy — Controversy is a lot of discussion and argument about something, often involving strong feelings of anger or disapproval.
- contumelies — Plural form of contumely.
- convections — Plural form of convection.
- conventions — A way in which something is usually done, esp. within a particular area or activity.
- conventuals — Plural form of conventual.
- convergents — Plural form of convergent.
- conversated — to have a conversation; converse; talk.
- conversates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of conversate.
- convexities — Plural form of convexity.
- convictfish — painted greenling.
- convictions — a fixed or firm belief: No clever argument, no persuasive fact or theory could make a dent in his conviction in the rightness of his position.
- convulsants — Plural form of convulsant.
- cooperstown — a town in central New York: location of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.
- coordinates — clothes of matching or harmonious colours and design, suitable for wearing together
- copingstone — a stone that tops or forms part of the top of a wall
- corinthians — either of two books of the New Testament (in full The First and Second Epistles of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians)
- corn starch — Corn starch is a fine white powder made from corn, used as a thickener or binder in the manufacture of drugs.
- cornerstone — The cornerstone of something is the basic part of it on which its existence, success, or truth depends.
- coronations — Plural form of coronation.
- corrections — Plural form of correction.
- correctness — to set or make true, accurate, or right; remove the errors or faults from: The native guide corrected our pronunciation. The new glasses corrected his eyesight.
- corruptions — Plural form of corruption.
- corruptness — guilty of dishonest practices, as bribery; lacking integrity; crooked: a corrupt judge.
- coruscating — A coruscating speech or performance is lively, intelligent, and impressive.
- coruscation — a gleam or flash of light
- corybantism — a delirium characterized by vivid frightening hallucinations and causing insomnia
- cosa nostra — the branch of the Mafia that operates in the US
- coscenarist — one of two or more joint scenarists.
- cosignatory — a person, country, etc, that signs a document jointly with others
- cosmetician — a person who makes, sells, or applies cosmetics
- cosmogonist — A person who studies cosmogony.
- cosmonautic — Of or related to cosmonauts or cosmonautics.
- cost center — A cost center is a department in a company that does not bring the company direct profit.
- cost centre — a unit, such as a department of a company, to which costs may be allocated for cost accounting purposes
- cost-in-use — the cost of owning, running, or using something
- costa rican — of or relating to Costa Rica or its inhabitants
- costiveness — suffering from constipation; constipated.
- coterminous — having a common boundary; bordering; contiguous
- cotoneaster — any Old World shrub of the rosaceous genus Cotoneaster: cultivated for their small ornamental white or pinkish flowers and red or black berries