11-letter words containing o, u, t, e, r
- countervail — to act or act against with equal power or force
- countervair — (heraldry) A heraldic fur resembling vair, except in the arrangement of the patches or figures.
- counterview — an opposite or opposing view
- counterword — a word widely used in a sense much looser than its original meaning, such as tremendous or awful
- counterwork — work done in opposition to other work
- countrified — You use countrified to describe something that seems or looks like something in the country, rather than in a town.
- countryfied — countrified
- countrymade — (in India) Describing a weapon manufactured illegally in a cottage industry.
- countryseat — a house or estate in the country
- countryside — The countryside is land which is away from towns and cities.
- countrywide — Something that happens or exists countrywide happens or exists throughout the whole of a particular country.
- coupon rate — The coupon rate is the interest rate on a bond calculated on the number of coupons per year.
- coursemates — Plural form of coursemate.
- court dance — a dignified dance for performance at a court. Compare folk dance (def 1).
- court dress — the formal clothing worn at court
- court order — a command by a court
- courteously — having or showing good manners; polite.
- courtesy of — without charge, as a gesture of goodwill
- courthouses — Plural form of courthouse.
- courtierism — the characteristic practices or qualities of a courtier
- courtliness — polite, refined, or elegant: courtly manners.
- covermounts — Plural form of covermount.
- credit hour — A credit hour is a credit that a school or college awards to students who have completed a course of study.
- crematorium — A crematorium is a building in which the bodies of dead people are burned.
- crenulation — any of the teeth or notches of a crenulate structure
- crest cloud — a stationary cloud parallel to and near the top of a mountain ridge. Compare cap cloud (def 1).
- crop duster — a pilot employed in crop-dusting from an airplane.
- crowded out — full to capacity; full to bursting
- crustaceous — forming, resembling, or possessing a surrounding crust or shell
- cryocautery — Cautery by the application of extreme cold.
- curie point — the temperature above which a ferromagnetic substance loses its ferromagnetism and becomes paramagnetic
- curiosities — Plural form of curiosity.
- customaries — Plural form of customary.
- cut corners — to do something in the easiest and shortest way, esp at the expense of high standards
- dear-bought — having been purchased at great expense
- deauthorize — to give authority for; formally sanction (an act or proceeding): Congress authorized the new tax on tobacco.
- deconstruct — In philosophy and literary criticism, to deconstruct an idea or text means to show the contradictions in its meaning, and to show how it does not fully explain what it claims to explain.
- decurionate — the post or position of a decurion
- decurvation — the act of curving downwards
- deglutitory — of or relating to swallowing
- degustatory — tasty; having a pleasant flavour
- deleterious — Something that has a deleterious effect on something has a harmful effect on it.
- demodulator — a device used in demodulation
- demy quarto — a book size, 113⁄4 by 85⁄8 inches
- dentigerous — bearing or having teeth
- deobstruent — a drug which removes obstructions in the body by aiding the opening of ducts
- depopulator — a thing that causes a decrease in population
- destruction — Destruction is the act of destroying something, or the state of being destroyed.
- destructors — Plural form of destructor.
- desultorily — lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order, disconnected; fitful: desultory conversation.