11-letter words containing u, n, s, c, e
- exonuclease — An enzyme that removes successive nucleotides from the end of a polynucleotide molecule.
- facinerious — (in the works of Shakespeare) extremely wicked
- factualness — Factuality.
- farinaceous — consisting or made of flour or meal, as food.
- final cause — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
- flucytosine — a synthetic whitish crystalline powder, C 4 H 4 FN 3 O, with antifungal activity, used in the treatment of systemic and eye fungal infections caused by susceptible strains of Candida or Cryptococcus.
- fluorescein — an orange-red, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 20 H 12 O 5 , that in alkaline solutions produces an orange color and an intense green fluorescence: used to trace subterranean waters and in dyes.
- fluorescent — possessing the property of fluorescence; exhibiting fluorescence.
- fluorescing — Present participle of fluoresce.
- fluticasone — (organic compound) A synthetic corticosteroid whose furoate and propionate forms are used as topical anti-inflammatories.
- frequencies — Plural form of frequency.
- gas furnace — a furnace using gas as a fuel.
- genius loci — the guardian spirit of a place.
- gesticulant — making or tending to make gestures or gesticulations: a gesticulant speaker.
- glaucescent — becoming glaucous; somewhat glaucous.
- glucokinase — an enzyme, found in all living systems, that serves to catalyze the phosphorylation of gluconic acid.
- glucosamine — an aminosugar occurring in many polysaccharides of vertebrate tissue and also as the major component of chitin.
- glycogenous — of or relating to the formation of sugar in the liver.
- granduncles — Plural form of granduncle.
- grouchiness — The characteristic or quality of being grouchy.
- honeylocust — any of a genus (Gleditsia) of trees of the caesalpinia family, esp. a North American species (G. triacanthos) usually having strong, thorny branches, featherlike foliage, and large, twisted pods containing beanlike seeds and a sweet pulp
- honeysucker — a bird that feeds on the nectar of flowers.
- honeysuckle — any upright or climbing shrub of the genus Diervilla, especially D. lonicera, cultivated for its fragrant white, yellow, or red tubular flowers.
- horn clause — (logic) A set of atomic literals with at most one positive literal. Usually written L <- L1, ..., Ln or <- L1, ..., Ln where n>=0, "<-" means "is implied by" and comma stands for conjuction ("AND"). If L is false the clause is regarded as a goal. Horn clauses can express a subset of statements of first order logic. The name "Horn Clause" comes from the logician Alfred Horn, who first pointed out the significance of such clauses in 1951, in the article "On sentences which are true of direct unions of algebras", Journal of Symbolic Logic, 16, 14-21. A definite clause is a Horn clause that has exactly one positive literal.
- house finch — a small common finch, Carpodacus mexicanus, originally of the western U.S. and Mexico and now widely distributed: the males have a red forehead, throat, breast, and rump.
- house-clean — to clean the inside of a person's house
- huckstering — Present participle of huckster.
- impecunious — having little or no money; penniless; poor.
- impuissance — Impotence, weakness.
- in close-up — If you see something in close-up, you see it in great detail in a photograph or piece of film which has been taken very near to the subject.
- incapsulate — Alternative form of encapsulate.
- inclusively — including or encompassing the stated limit or extremes in consideration or account (usually used postpositively): from 6 to 37 inclusive.
- increaseful — full of increase; fertile; fruitful
- incredulous — not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical.
- incurrences — Plural form of incurrence.
- indeciduous — not deciduous, as leaves.
- inducements — Plural form of inducement.
- inductances — Plural form of inductance.
- indulgences — Plural form of indulgence.
- inexcusable — incapable of being excused or justified.
- inexcusably — incapable of being excused or justified.
- influencers — Plural form of influencer.
- infructuose — Not yielding fruit.
- inosculated — Simple past tense and past participle of inosculate.
- inosculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inosculate.
- inscrutable — incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable.
- insculpture — an inscription or carving
- insectarium — a place in which a collection of living insects is kept, as in a zoo.
- insectifuge — a substance or preparation for driving off insects.
- insouciance — the quality of being insouciant; lack of care or concern; indifference.