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11-letter words containing s, c, u, l

  • fasciculate — arranged in a fascicle or fascicles.
  • fast casual — a style of fast food involving healthier, fresher, and more varied dishes than traditional fast food, served in more attractive surroundings
  • fault scarp — scarp (def 1).
  • ferociously — savagely fierce, as a wild beast, person, action, or aspect; violently cruel: a ferocious beating.
  • feudalistic — the feudal system, or its principles and practices.
  • final cause — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
  • flea circus — a number of fleas trained to perform tricks, as for a carnival sideshow
  • flocculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flocculate.
  • flucytosine — a synthetic whitish crystalline powder, C 4 H 4 FN 3 O, with antifungal activity, used in the treatment of systemic and eye fungal infections caused by susceptible strains of Candida or Cryptococcus.
  • fluorescein — an orange-red, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 20 H 12 O 5 , that in alkaline solutions produces an orange color and an intense green fluorescence: used to trace subterranean waters and in dyes.
  • fluorescent — possessing the property of fluorescence; exhibiting fluorescence.
  • fluorescing — Present participle of fluoresce.
  • fluoroscope — a tube or box fitted with a screen coated with a fluorescent substance, used for viewing objects, especially deep body structures, by means of x-ray or other radiation.
  • fluoroscopy — the use of or examination by means of a fluoroscope.
  • fluticasone — (organic compound) A synthetic corticosteroid whose furoate and propionate forms are used as topical anti-inflammatories.
  • foliicolous — growing on leaves, as certain liverworts.
  • folliculose — having or resembling follicles
  • folliculous — having or producing follicles
  • foreclosure — the act of foreclosing a mortgage or pledge.
  • fractiously — In a fractious manner.
  • fruticulose — (botany) Like, or pertaining to, a small shrub.
  • full cousin — cousin (def 1).
  • full-custom — Design of integrated circuits at the transistor or polygon level. This is in contrast to the use of libraries of components. Full-custom design requires considerable skill and experience and is usually only feasible for simple circuits, especially ones with much repetition, such as memory device, where a small saving in the size and power consumption of a component will yield a large overall saving.
  • functionals — Plural form of functional.
  • furunculous — Furuncular.
  • gas vacuole — a gas-filled structure that provides buoyancy in some aquatic bacteria
  • genius loci — the guardian spirit of a place.
  • gesticulant — making or tending to make gestures or gesticulations: a gesticulant speaker.
  • gesticulate — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
  • glasscutter — a small hand tool that is specially designed for cutting sheets of glass, having a cutting wheel of steel or tungsten carbide and notches for snapping the glass
  • glaucescent — becoming glaucous; somewhat glaucous.
  • glucokinase — an enzyme, found in all living systems, that serves to catalyze the phosphorylation of gluconic acid.
  • glucosamine — an aminosugar occurring in many polysaccharides of vertebrate tissue and also as the major component of chitin.
  • glucosidase — (enzyme) Any enzyme that hydrolyses glucosides.
  • glycogenous — of or relating to the formation of sugar in the liver.
  • golf course — the ground or course over which golf is played. A standard full-scale golf course has 125 to 175 acres (51 to 71 hectares), usually with 18 holes varying from 100 to 650 yards (91 to 594 meters) in length from tee to cup.
  • granduncles — Plural form of granduncle.
  • groupuscule — A political or religious splinter group.
  • gulf crisis — the unstable period prior to the war of 1991 between US-led UN forces and Iraq
  • gum elastic — rubber1 (def 1).
  • helichrysum — any of the numerous composite plants of the genus Helichrysum, having alternate leaves and solitary or clustered flower heads, including the strawflower.
  • heuristical — Of or pertaining to heuristics.
  • hills cloud — a hypothetical dense, disc-shaped area within the Oort cloud
  • holluschick — a young male fur seal.
  • holocaustic — a great or complete devastation or destruction, especially by fire.
  • honeylocust — any of a genus (Gleditsia) of trees of the caesalpinia family, esp. a North American species (G. triacanthos) usually having strong, thorny branches, featherlike foliage, and large, twisted pods containing beanlike seeds and a sweet pulp
  • honeysuckle — any upright or climbing shrub of the genus Diervilla, especially D. lonicera, cultivated for its fragrant white, yellow, or red tubular flowers.
  • horn clause — (logic)   A set of atomic literals with at most one positive literal. Usually written L <- L1, ..., Ln or <- L1, ..., Ln where n>=0, "<-" means "is implied by" and comma stands for conjuction ("AND"). If L is false the clause is regarded as a goal. Horn clauses can express a subset of statements of first order logic. The name "Horn Clause" comes from the logician Alfred Horn, who first pointed out the significance of such clauses in 1951, in the article "On sentences which are true of direct unions of algebras", Journal of Symbolic Logic, 16, 14-21. A definite clause is a Horn clause that has exactly one positive literal.
  • house place — (in medieval architecture) a room common to all the inhabitants of a house, as a hall.
  • house-clean — to clean the inside of a person's house
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