11-letter words containing t, o, r, c
- cryptophyte — any perennial plant that bears its buds below the soil or water surface
- cryptorchid — an animal or human in which the testes fail to descend into the scrotum
- cryptoscopy — (dated) fluoroscopy.
- cryptozoite — a malarial parasite at the stage of development in its host before it enters the red blood cells
- crystallog. — crystallography
- crystalloid — resembling or having the appearance or properties of a crystal or crystalloid
- ctenophoran — of a ctenophore
- ctenophores — Plural form of ctenophore.
- cultivators — Plural form of cultivator.
- culturology — a branch of anthropology concerned with the study of cultural institutions as distinct from the people who are involved in them.
- 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.
- 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.
- currantworm — the larva of any of several insects, as a sawfly, Nematus ribesii (imported currantworm) which infests and feeds on the leaves and fruit of currants.
- curtain rod — A curtain rod is a long, narrow pole on which you hang curtains.
- customaries — Plural form of customary.
- customarily — according to custom; usually
- cut corners — to do something in the easiest and shortest way, esp at the expense of high standards
- cut throats — a person who cuts the throat of another; a murderer.
- cut through — to penetrate or go through by cutting
- cybernation — the use of computers to control and carry out operations, as in manufacturing
- cyclometers — Plural form of cyclometer.
- cyclostylar — (architecture) Of or pertaining to a cyclostyle (a circular group of columns without a core).
- cyprinodont — any small tropical or subtropical soft-finned fish of the mostly marine family Cyprinodontidae, resembling carp but having toothed jaws. The group includes the guppy, killifish, swordtail, and topminnow
- cyproterone — an antiandrogen drug that suppresses testosterone in the body
- cystography — radiography of the urinary bladder using a contrast medium
- cytochromes — Plural form of cytochrome.
- cytokeratin — Either of several forms of keratin found in the intracytoplasmic cytoskeleton of epithelial tissue.
- cytopharynx — the gullet of a protozoan.
- cytotropism — cytotropic tendency or behavior.
- dactylogram — a fingerprint
- deactivator — Any device used to deactivate something.
- deallocator — One who, or that which, deallocates.
- decapitator — One who decapitates.
- decarbonate — to remove carbon dioxide from (a solution, substance, etc)
- declamatory — A declamatory phrase, statement, or way of speaking is dramatic and confident.
- declaration — A declaration is an official announcement or statement.
- declarators — Plural form of declarator.
- declaratory — (of a statute) stating the existing law on a particular subject; explanatory
- declinatory — a plea that has the aim of demonstrating that the accused is exempt from legal authority and punishment
- decolorants — Plural form of decolorant.
- deconstruct — In philosophy and literary criticism, to deconstruct an idea or text means to show the contradictions in its meaning, and to show how it does not fully explain what it claims to explain.
- decorations — Plural form of decoration.
- decorrelate — To reduce the correlation between signals.
- decorticate — to remove the bark or some other outer layer from
- decurionate — the post or position of a decurion
- decurvation — the act of curving downwards
- deflazacort — A glucocorticoid prodrug used as an anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressant.
- deforcement — (legal) A keeping out by force or wrong; a wrongful withholding, as of lands or tenements, to which another has a right.