11-letter words containing t, i, o, u
- crenulation — any of the teeth or notches of a crenulate structure
- cropdusting — the spreading of fungicide, etc on crops in the form of dust, often from an aircraft
- cuckoo spit — a white frothy mass on the stems and leaves of many plants, produced by froghopper larvae (cuckoo spit insects), which feed on the plant juices
- cuckoo-spit — Also called frog spit. a frothy secretion found on plants, exuded by the young of certain insects, as the froghoppers, and serving as a protective covering.
- cuckoopints — Plural form of cuckoopint.
- cuitlacoche — corn smut.
- culmination — Something, especially something important, that is the culmination of an activity, process, or series of events happens at the end of it.
- cultivation — the planting, tending, improving, or harvesting of crops or plants
- cultivators — Plural form of cultivator.
- culturomics — the study of human culture and cultural trends over time by means of quantitative analysis of words and phrases in a very large corpus of digitized texts: Culturomics can pinpoint periods of accelerated language change.
- cunctatious — addicted to or prone to cunctation
- cupellation — the process of recovering precious metals from lead by melting the alloy in a cupel and oxidizing the lead by means of an air blast
- curatorship — The rank or period of being a curator.
- curie point — the temperature above which a ferromagnetic substance loses its ferromagnetism and becomes paramagnetic
- curiosities — Plural form of curiosity.
- curtain rod — A curtain rod is a long, narrow pole on which you hang curtains.
- cushion cut — a variety of brilliant cut in which the girdle has the form of a square with rounded corners.
- cuspidation — decoration using cusps
- customaries — Plural form of customary.
- customarily — according to custom; usually
- customizing — to modify or build according to individual or personal specifications or preference: to customize an automobile.
- cutoff time — The cutoff time is the time at which a bank stops crediting same-day deposits.
- cuts no ice — If you say that something cuts no ice with you, you mean that you are not impressed or influenced by it.
- cutting oil — a specially prepared oil used as a cutting fluid.
- deauthorize — to give authority for; formally sanction (an act or proceeding): Congress authorized the new tax on tobacco.
- declivitous — fairly steep
- decurionate — the post or position of a decurion
- decurvation — the act of curving downwards
- decussation — a decussating or being decussated
- deevolution — any process of formation or growth; development: the evolution of a language; the evolution of the airplane.
- deglutition — the act of swallowing
- deglutitory — of or relating to swallowing
- degustation — the act of sampling a wide variety of foods, wines, etc.
- deleterious — Something that has a deleterious effect on something has a harmful effect on it.
- delusionist — a person prone to delusions
- dentigerous — bearing or having teeth
- deplumation — to deprive of feathers; pluck.
- depollution — to eliminate, clean up, or decrease pollution in (an area).
- deputations — Plural form of deputation.
- destitution — Destitution is the state of having no money or possessions.
- destruction — Destruction is the act of destroying something, or the state of being destroyed.
- desultorily — lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order, disconnected; fitful: desultory conversation.
- deuteration — the process of introducing deuterium into a molecule or chemical compound
- devaluation — a decrease in the exchange value of a currency against gold or other currencies, brought about by a government
- diacoustics — the branch of physics that deals with refracted sound
- dichotomous — divided or dividing into two parts.
- dilutionary — causing, involving, or relating to the dilution of company stocks
- diminutions — Plural form of diminution.
- dinotherium — any elephantlike mammal of the extinct genus Dinotherium, from the later Tertiary Period of Europe and Asia, having large, outwardly curving tusks.
- disaccustom — to cause to lose a habit: In the country I was quickly disaccustomed of sleeping late.