11-letter words containing o, u, t, c
- contrarious — (of people or animals) perverse or obstinate
- contre-jour — the technique of taking photographs into the light, with the light source behind the subject
- contrecoups — Plural form of contrecoup.
- contributed — to give (money, time, knowledge, assistance, etc.) to a common supply, fund, etc., as for charitable purposes.
- contributer — Misspelling of contributor.
- contributes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contribute.
- contributor — You can use contributor to refer to one of the causes of an event or situation, especially if that event or situation is an unpleasant one.
- 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.
- contubernal — occupying the same tent
- contumacity — the quality of being contumacious
- contumelies — Plural form of contumely.
- conurbation — A conurbation consists of a large city together with the smaller towns around it.
- conventuals — Plural form of conventual.
- convoluting — rolled up together or with one part over another.
- convolution — Convolutions are curves on an object or design that has a lot of curves.
- convulsants — Plural form of convulsant.
- cook's tour — a rapid but extensive tour or survey of anything
- cool hunter — a person who is employed to identify future trends, esp in fashion or the media
- coral trout — an Australian fish, Plectropomus maculatus, of the Great Barrier Reef which is an important food fish
- corbiculate — having corbiculae or pollen baskets
- cord cutter — a person who has switched from cable, satellite, or landline to a wireless or Internet connection to access television or phone service: Cord cutters are using more mobile apps to view college football than ever before.
- corequisite — an educational course that must be taken at the same time as, or before, another course
- corn gluten — gluten separated from corn during milling, used primarily as a livestock feed.
- corniculate — having horns or hornlike projections
- corpulently — In a corpulent manner.
- corrugating — Present participle of corrugate.
- corrugation — a corrugating or being corrugated
- corrugators — Plural form of corrugator.
- corruptable — Able to be corrupted.
- corruptible — susceptible to corruption; capable of being corrupted
- corruptions — Plural form of corruption.
- corruptness — guilty of dishonest practices, as bribery; lacking integrity; crooked: a corrupt judge.
- corticolous — living or growing on the surface of bark
- coruscating — A coruscating speech or performance is lively, intelligent, and impressive.
- coruscation — a gleam or flash of light
- cos lettuce — romaine.
- cosmic dust — fine particles of solid matter occurring throughout interstellar space and often collecting into clouds of extremely low density
- cosmonautic — Of or related to cosmonauts or cosmonautics.
- cost-in-use — the cost of owning, running, or using something
- cote d'azur — the Mediterranean coast of France, including the French Riviera: forms an administrative region with Provence
- coterminous — having a common boundary; bordering; contiguous
- cotransduce — to cause (genes) to undergo cotransduction
- cotton bush — any of various downy chenopodiaceous shrubs, esp Kochia aphylla, which is used to feed livestock
- cottonmouth — water moccasin
- cotylosaurs — Plural form of cotylosaur.
- cougar bait — a younger man who is often pursued by older women seeking a sexual relationship: We all agreed he was prime cougar bait.
- cough sweet — a lozenge to relieve a cough
- coulometric — (physics, chemistry) of, or relating to coulometry.
- council tax — In Britain, council tax is a tax that you pay to your local authority in order to pay for local services such as schools, libraries, and rubbish collection. The amount of council tax that you pay depends on the value of the house or flat where you live.
- count noses — to count the number of people present, voting, etc.