11-letter words containing s, c, u, n, e
- instructive — serving to instruct or inform; conveying instruction, knowledge, or information; enlightening.
- insurrectos — Plural form of insurrecto.
- intercampus — the grounds, often including the buildings, of a college, university, or school.
- intercourse — dealings or communication between individuals, groups, countries, etc.
- introducers — Plural form of introducer.
- intumescent — a swelling up, as with congestion.
- intumescing — Present participle of intumesce.
- isoceraunic — representing, having, or indicating equality in the frequency or intensity of thunderstorms: isoceraunic line; isoceraunic map.
- isokeraunic — isoceraunic.
- isoleucines — Plural form of isoleucine.
- janus-faced — having two faces, one looking forward, one looking backward, as the Roman deity Janus.
- juvenescent — being or becoming youthful; young.
- keratoconus — a degenerative condition characterized by conical protrusion of the cornea and irregular astigmatism.
- kernicterus — (medicine) Damage to the brain centres of infants caused by increased levels of unconjugated-indirect bilirubin which is free (not bound to albumin).
- languescent — becoming languid
- larcenously — In a larcenous manner.
- launch shoe — an attachment to an aircraft from which a missile is launched
- leprechauns — a dwarf or sprite.
- liquescency — The quality or state of being liquescent.
- locust bean — carob.
- lucy stoner — a person who advocates the retention of the maiden name by married women. Compare Stone (def 5).
- lüdenscheid — a city in W Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia: manufacturing centre for aluminium and plastics. Pop: 79 829 (2003 est)
- luminescent — the emission of light not caused by incandescence and occurring at a temperature below that of incandescent bodies.
- luminescing — Present participle of luminesce.
- lunarscapes — Plural form of lunarscape.
- machineguns — Plural form of machinegun.
- main clause — a clause that can stand alone as a sentence, containing a subject and a predicate with a finite verb, as I was there in the sentence I was there when he arrived.
- main course — Nautical. a square mainsail.
- marcellinus — Saint, died a.d. 304, pope 296–304.
- masculinely — In a masculine manner.
- masculinize — Medicine/Medical. to produce certain male secondary sex characteristics in (a female).
- menthaceous — belonging to the Menthaceae, a former name for the plant family Labiatae.
- mini-course — a brief intensive course of study
- minicourses — Plural form of minicourse.
- miscegenous — Of, pertaining to, or being miscegenation; interracial (said primarily of marriages and other sexual or romantic relationships).
- misconstrue — to misunderstand the meaning of; take in a wrong sense; misinterpret.
- misguidance — to guide wrongly; misdirect.
- most-centum — belonging to or consisting of those branches of the Indo-European family of languages that show distinctive preservation of the Proto-Indo-European labiovelars and that show a historical development of velar articulations, as the sounds (k) or [kh] /x/ (Show IPA) from Proto-Indo-European palatal phonemes. The centum branches are Germanic, Celtic, Italic, Hellenic, Anatolian, and Tocharian.
- multiscreen — Having multiple screens.
- munchhausen — Karl Friedrich Hieronymus [kahrl free-drikh hee-ey-roh-ny-moo s] /kɑrl ˈfri drɪx ˌhi eɪˈroʊ nüˌmʊs/ (Show IPA), Baron von [fuh n] /fən/ (Show IPA), 1720–97, German soldier, adventurer, and teller of tales.
- musclebound — having enlarged and inelastic muscles, as from excessive exercise.
- musicalness — Quality of being musical.
- narcissuses — Plural form of narcissus.
- necessitous — destitute or impoverished; needy; indigent: to aid a necessitous young mother.
- necessitude — necessity.
- neuroethics — The ethics of neuroscience and neurotechnology.
- neuroticism — the state of having traits or symptoms characteristic of neurosis.
- new cuisine — nouvelle cuisine.
- non-closure — the act of closing; the state of being closed.
- non-cursive — (of handwriting) in flowing strokes with the letters joined together.