11-letter words containing u, l, o, s
- courtliness — polite, refined, or elegant: courtly manners.
- crapulosity — the quality of being crapulous or crapulent
- crapulously — In a crapulous manner.
- credulously — In a credulous manner; believably.
- crest cloud — a stationary cloud parallel to and near the top of a mountain ridge. Compare cap cloud (def 1).
- cross vault — a vault or ceiling created by the intersection of vaults.
- culdoscopes — Plural form of culdoscope.
- culmicolous — (of a fungus) growing on grass culms.
- culmiferous — (of grasses) having a hollow jointed stem
- 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.
- cunobelinus — also called Cymbeline. died ?42 ad, British ruler of the Catuvellauni tribe (?10–?42); founder of Colchester (?10)
- cushionless — without a cushion
- customarily — according to custom; usually
- cutaneously — In a cutaneous way.
- cuttlebones — Plural form of cuttlebone.
- cutty stool — (formerly, in Scotland) the church seat on which an unchaste person sat while being harangued by the minister
- dangerously — full of danger or risk; causing danger; perilous; risky; hazardous; unsafe.
- deciduously — shedding the leaves annually, as certain trees and shrubs.
- declivitous — fairly steep
- deleterious — Something that has a deleterious effect on something has a harmful effect on it.
- deliciously — In a delicious manner.
- deliriously — Pathology. affected with or characteristic of delirium.
- delusionary — having false or unrealistic beliefs or opinions: Senators who think they will get agreement on a comprehensive tax bill are delusional.
- delusionist — a person prone to delusions
- demodulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of demodulate.
- depopulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of depopulate.
- desultorily — lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order, disconnected; fitful: desultory conversation.
- dexterously — skillful or adroit in the use of the hands or body.
- diadelphous — (of stamens) having united filaments so that they are arranged in two groups
- dicephalous — having two heads
- diffusional — Of or pertaining to diffusion.
- diplococcus — any of several spherical bacteria occurring in pairs, as Diplococcus pneumoniae.
- disc plough — a plough that cuts by means of revolving steel discs
- disclosures — Plural form of disclosure.
- discolorous — (botany, of leaves) Having upper and lower surfaces of different colours.
- discoloured — (British) alternative spelling of discolored.
- disillusion — to free from or deprive of illusion, belief, idealism, etc.; disenchant.
- dissolutely — In a dissolute manner.
- dissolution — the act or process of resolving or dissolving into parts or elements.
- dolefulness — The characteristic of being doleful; sadness.
- dorsolumbar — of, relating to, or affecting the back in the region of the lumbar vertebrae.
- double bass — the largest instrument of the violin family, having three or, usually, four strings, rested vertically on the floor when played.
- double salt — a salt that crystallizes as a single substance but ionizes as two distinct salts when dissolved, as carnallite, KMgCl 3 ⋅6H 2 O.
- double star — two stars that appear as one if not viewed through a telescope with adequate magnification, such as two stars that are separated by a great distance but are nearly in line with each other and an observer (optical double star) or those that are relatively close together and comprise a single physical system (physical double star)
- double-stop — to play a double stop on (a stringed instrument).
- doublecross — To betray someone by leading them into trap after having gained their trust and led them to believe that they were actually being aided.
- doubled sig — A sig block that has been included twice in a Usenet article or, less commonly, in an electronic mail message. An article or message with a doubled sig can be caused by improperly configured software. More often, however, it reveals the author's lack of experience in electronic communication. See BIFF, pseudo.
- doublespeak — evasive, ambiguous language that is intended to deceive or confuse.
- doubletrees — Plural form of doubletree.