11-letter words containing t, o, a, n
- cavillation — any objection made to or dispute raised about trivial points or frivolities
- ceftriaxone — (pharmaceutical drug) A synthetic cephalosporin antibiotic.
- celebration — A celebration is a special enjoyable event that people organize because something pleasant has happened or because it is someone's birthday or anniversary.
- cementation — the process of heating a solid with a powdered material to modify the properties of the solid, esp the heating of wrought iron, surrounded with charcoal, to 750–900°C to produce steel
- cementatory — possessing the quality to firmly unite or cement
- cenancestor — The last ancestor common of two or more lineages, especially the last universal common ancestor of all life.
- centerboard — a movable board or metal plate that, when lowered through a slot in the floor of a shallow-draft sailboat, functions like a keel to reduce leeward drift or increase stability, esp. one that moves on a pivot
- centimorgan — a unit of chromosome length, used in genetic mapping, equal to the length of chromosome over which crossing over occurs with 1 per cent frequency
- centreboard — a supplementary keel for a sailing vessel, which may be adjusted by raising and lowering
- centrobaric — of or concerned with a centre of gravity
- centrosomal — Of or pertaining to a centrosome or centrosomes.
- centuriator — a historian who compiles work by centuries, esp one of the writers of the Magdeburg Centuries
- cephalothin — a cephalosporin antibiotic often used in the treatment of bacterial infections
- ceratopsian — resembling or belonging to the Ceratopsia, a suborder of herbivorous dinosaurs characterized by their parrot-like beaks, horns, and neck frills
- cerebration — the act of thinking; consideration; thought
- cga monitor — a type of (early) computer monitor designed to operate with CGA technology
- chaetognath — any small wormlike marine invertebrate of the phylum Chaetognatha, including the arrowworms, having a coelom and a ring of bristles around the mouth
- chain store — A chain store is one of several similar shops that are owned by the same person or company, especially one that sells a variety of things.
- chalkstones — Plural form of chalkstone.
- chansonette — a little song
- chaoticness — The state or quality of being chaotic.
- charactonym — a name given to a literary character that is descriptive of a quality or trait of the character.
- charlestown — oldest part of Boston, at the mouth of the Charles River: site of the battle of Bunker Hill
- chattanooga — a city in SE Tennessee, on the Tennessee River: scene of two battles during the Civil War, in which the North defeated the Confederates, cleared Tennessee, and opened the way to Georgia (1863). Pop: 154 887 (2003 est)
- chevrotains — Plural form of chevrotain.
- china stone — a type of kaolinized granitic rock containing unaltered plagioclase
- chinwangtao — Qinhuangdao
- chiromantic — relating to chiromancy
- chiropteran — of, relating to, or belonging to the Chiroptera, an order of placental mammals comprising the bats
- chloanthite — a form of nickel arsenide having commercial importance as a nickel ore
- chlorinated — Chlorinated water, for example drinking water or water in a swimming pool, has been cleaned by adding chlorine to it.
- chlorinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chlorinate.
- chlorinator — That which chlorinates.
- choanocytes — Plural form of choanocyte.
- cholangitis — (medicine) An inflammation of the bile duct.
- chordotonal — (of an insect) responsive to sound vibrations, as certain organs or parts.
- chrismation — a rite of initiation involving anointing with chrism and taking place at the same time as baptism
- chromatinic — Of or pertaining to chromatin.
- cinefaction — (obsolete, rare) cineration; reduction to ashes.
- circulation — The circulation of a newspaper or magazine is the number of copies that are sold each time it is produced.
- citronellal — a colourless slightly water-soluble liquid with a lemon-like odour, a terpene aldehyde found esp in citronella and certain eucalyptus oils: used as a flavouring and in soaps and perfumes. Formula: (CH3)2C:CH(CH2)2CH(CH3)CH2CHO
- cladanthous — pleurocarpous.
- clairvoyant — Someone who is believed to be clairvoyant is believed to know about future events or to be able to communicate with dead people.
- cleaned out — free from dirt; unsoiled; unstained: She bathed and put on a clean dress.
- cleptomania — kleptomania
- clock in at — If something such as a CD or film clocks in at a particular amount of time, it is that amount of time long.
- cnidoblasts — the cell within which a nematocyst is developed.
- co-location — (networking) /koh'loh-kay`sh*n/ or /koh`loh-kay'sh*n/ (Or "colocation") Providing network connections such as Internet leased lines to several servers housed together in a server room. This is typically provided as a commercial service. The hyphenated form is correct and the most common on the web, followed by "colocation". "collocation" (/ko`loh-kay'sh*n/, not /koh'-/), is an old word with a similar meaning. It is common in dictionaries and follows the pattern of other Latin-derived words like collect, college, and collate, but is least common on the web. The verbal form is "to colocate" or "co-locate" (commonly /koh'loh`kayt/, also (US) /koh`loh'kayt/).
- co-ordinate — If you co-ordinate an activity, you organize the various people and things involved in it.
- co-relation — correlation