11-letter words containing o, u, e, s
- normanesque — in the style of Norman architecture, a variety of Romanesque architecture.
- noroviruses — Plural form of norovirus.
- nose around — pry, snoop
- noun clause — a subordinate clause that functions as a noun within a main clause.
- noun phrase — a construction that functions syntactically as a noun, consisting of a noun and any modifiers, as all the men in the room who are reading books, or of a noun substitute, as a pronoun.
- nourishable — able to be nourished; benefiting from nourishment
- nourishment — something that nourishes; food, nutriment, or sustenance.
- noxiousness — The state of being noxious.
- nucleobases — Plural form of nucleobase.
- nucleoplasm — the protoplasm of the nucleus of a cell.
- nucleosomal — Of or pertaining to a nucleosome.
- nucleosomes — Plural form of nucleosome.
- nucleotides — any of a group of molecules that, when linked together, form the building blocks of DNA or RNA: composed of a phosphate group, the bases adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine, and a pentose sugar, in RNA the thymine base being replaced by uracil.
- numerations — Plural form of numeration.
- obfusticate — Synonym of obfuscate.
- obliqueness — The characteristic of being oblique.
- obliquities — Plural form of obliquity.
- obscurement — The act of obscuring, or the state of being obscured.
- obscureness — (of meaning) not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain: an obscure sentence in the contract.
- obscurities — Plural form of obscurity.
- obstructive — to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
- obtrusively — having or showing a disposition to obtrude, as by imposing oneself or one's opinions on others.
- obviousness — The characteristic of being obvious.
- occupancies — Plural form of occupancy.
- occurrences — the action, fact, or instance of occurring.
- oceanariums — Plural form of oceanarium.
- odious debt — sovereign debt incurred through activities which do not serve the best interests of the nation, esp when incurred by a despotic, tyrannical, or otherwise unjust and oppresive regime. Such debts are typically considered invalid and written off after the regime is deposed
- odoriferous — yielding or diffusing an odor.
- oedipus rex — a tragedy (c430 b.c.) by Sophocles.
- oligomerous — having a small number of component parts
- ombrogenous — (of plants) able to flourish in wet conditions
- ombudswomen — Plural form of ombudswoman.
- omega minus — an unstable negatively charged elementary particle, classified as a baryon, that has a mass 3273 times that of the electron
- ominousness — portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening; inauspicious: an ominous bank of dark clouds.
- on schedule — with no delay
- on the cusp — If you say that someone or something is on the cusp, you mean they are between two states, or are about to be in a particular state.
- on the outs — on unfriendly terms
- onagraceous — belonging to the Onagraceae, the evening primrose family of plants.
- oncoviruses — Plural form of oncovirus.
- onerousness — The state or characteristic of of being onerous.
- onslaughter — An onslaught.
- open source — Computers. pertaining to or denoting software whose source code is available free of charge to the public to use, copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute.
- open-source — Computers. pertaining to or denoting software whose source code is available free of charge to the public to use, copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute.
- opera house — a theater devoted chiefly to operas.
- orange rust — a disease of blackberries and raspberries, characterized by an orange, powdery mass of spores on the undersides of the leaves and stunted, misshapen foliage, caused by a rust fungus, Gymnoconia interstitialis.
- ostensorium — ostensory.
- osteogenous — the formation of bone.
- ostpreussen — a former province in NE Germany: an enclave separated from Germany by the Polish Corridor; now divided between Poland and the Russian Federation. 14,283 sq. mi. (36,993 sq. km). Capital: Königsberg.
- ostreaceous — oyster-like
- our time(s) — When you refer to our time or our times you are referring to the present period in the history of the world.