11-letter words containing u, n, c, o, t, e
- monchiquite — a type of rock made up of large crystals of, among other constituents, olivine and amphibole and which is found in an analcite groundmass
- monoculture — the use of land for growing only one type of crop.
- monticulate — having low rising mounds or protrusions
- most-centum — belonging to or consisting of those branches of the Indo-European family of languages that show distinctive preservation of the Proto-Indo-European labiovelars and that show a historical development of velar articulations, as the sounds (k) or [kh] /x/ (Show IPA) from Proto-Indo-European palatal phonemes. The centum branches are Germanic, Celtic, Italic, Hellenic, Anatolian, and Tocharian.
- mountenance — a quantity, amount, duration, or value
- mucoprotein — a protein that yields carbohydrates as well as amino acids on hydrolysis.
- necessitous — destitute or impoverished; needy; indigent: to aid a necessitous young mother.
- neuroactive — affecting or interacting directly with the nervous system
- neurocytoma — A nervous system tumor primarily derived from nervous tissue, in contrast to the gliomas.
- neuroethics — The ethics of neuroscience and neurotechnology.
- neuroleptic — (chiefly of a drug) tending to reduce nervous tension by depressing nerve functions.
- neuropathic — any diseased condition of the nervous system.
- neuroticism — the state of having traits or symptoms characteristic of neurosis.
- neurotropic — having an affinity for nerve cells or tissue: a neurotropic virus; a neurotropic drug.
- neutropenic — Having neutropenia.
- new country — a style of country music that emerged in the late 1980s characterized by a more contemporary sound and down-to-earth rather than sentimental lyrics
- noctilucent — (of high-altitude clouds) visible during the short night of the summer.
- non-current — passing in time; belonging to the time actually passing: the current month.
- non-ductile — capable of being hammered out thin, as certain metals; malleable.
- non-suspect — to believe to be guilty, false, counterfeit, undesirable, defective, bad, etc., with little or no proof: to suspect a person of murder.
- noncomputed — Not computed.
- noncomputer — Not of or pertaining to computers.
- noncustomer — a person who is not the customer of a particular establishment, or a person who does not buy a product or service
- nucleolated — containing a nucleolus or nucleoli.
- nucleotides — any of a group of molecules that, when linked together, form the building blocks of DNA or RNA: composed of a phosphate group, the bases adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine, and a pentose sugar, in RNA the thymine base being replaced by uracil.
- obscurement — The act of obscuring, or the state of being obscured.
- on the club — away from work due to sickness, esp when receiving sickness benefit
- on the cuff — a fold or band serving as a trimming or finish for the bottom of a sleeve.
- on the cusp — If you say that someone or something is on the cusp, you mean they are between two states, or are about to be in a particular state.
- outbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of outbalance.
- outbalances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outbalance.
- outdistance — to leave behind, as in running; outstrip: The winning horse outdistanced the second-place winner by five lengths.
- outreaching — Present participle of outreach.
- overcaution — excessive caution
- overcurrent — a current of a magnitude that is greater than a limiting value, as the value at which a fuse melts.
- overcutting — excessive cutting
- perfunctory — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
- perlocution — (of a speech act) producing an effect upon the listener, as in persuading, frightening, amusing, or causing the listener to act.
- persecution — the act of persecuting.
- pneumectomy — pneumonectomy.
- pococurante — a careless or indifferent person.
- point coupe — Also called cutwork. a process for producing lace in which predetermined threads in the ground material are cut and removed in order to provide open areas for the insertion of ornamental patterns.
- postscenium — a wing on either side of the stage of an ancient Greek or Roman theatre where props could be stored and actors could prepare; a parascenium
- pouncet box — a small perfume box with a perforated lid.
- preconquest — of or relating to the time before the conquest of one people, region, or country by another.
- prefunction — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
- preoccupant — a previous occupant
- procrustean — pertaining to or suggestive of Procrustes.
- procurement — the act of procuring, or obtaining or getting by effort, care, or the use of special means: The organ procurement procedure is very complicated.
- producement — production