11-letter words containing s, e, l, u, c
- fruticulose — (botany) Like, or pertaining to, a small shrub.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- hpcode-plus — A descendant of HPcode with data types, developed to be an ANDF language.
- hypercasual — Extremely casual.
- in close-up — If you see something in close-up, you see it in great detail in a photograph or piece of film which has been taken very near to the subject.
- incapsulate — Alternative form of encapsulate.
- inclusively — including or encompassing the stated limit or extremes in consideration or account (usually used postpositively): from 6 to 37 inclusive.
- increaseful — full of increase; fertile; fruitful
- incredulous — not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical.
- indulgences — Plural form of indulgence.
- inexcusable — incapable of being excused or justified.
- inexcusably — incapable of being excused or justified.
- influencers — Plural form of influencer.
- inosculated — Simple past tense and past participle of inosculate.
- inosculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inosculate.
- inscrutable — incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable.
- insculpture — an inscription or carving
- irrecusable — not to be objected to or rejected.
- isoleucines — Plural form of isoleucine.
- justiceable — Liable to trial in a court of justice.
- justiciable — capable of being settled by law or by the action of a court: a justiciable dispute.
- lack-luster — lacking brilliance or radiance; dull: lackluster eyes.
- lactiferous — producing or secreting milk: lactiferous glands.
- languescent — becoming languid
- larcenously — In a larcenous manner.
- launch shoe — an attachment to an aircraft from which a missile is launched
- lecherously — given to or characterized by lechery; lustful.
- lectureship — the office of lecturer.
- leprechauns — a dwarf or sprite.
- leucoplasia — a disorder of a mucous membrane characterized by one or more white patches, occurring most commonly on the cheek, tongue, vulva, or penis: often medically insignificant but sometimes becoming malignant.