11-letter words containing u, n, t, r, o
- continuator — a person who continues something, esp the work of someone else
- contour map — a map that indicates the physical features of the land; topographic map
- contractual — A contractual arrangement or relationship involves a legal agreement between people.
- contracture — a disorder in which a skeletal muscle is permanently tightened (contracted), most often caused by spasm or paralysis of the antagonist muscle that maintains normal muscle tension
- contrarious — (of people or animals) perverse or obstinate
- contre-jour — the technique of taking photographs into the light, with the light source behind the subject
- contrecoups — Plural form of contrecoup.
- contributed — to give (money, time, knowledge, assistance, etc.) to a common supply, fund, etc., as for charitable purposes.
- contributer — Misspelling of contributor.
- contributes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contribute.
- contributor — You can use contributor to refer to one of the causes of an event or situation, especially if that event or situation is an unpleasant one.
- control bus — (architecture) In a digital computer, the signal paths that carry commands from the instruction decode logic to various different functional units such as the ALU, memory address register, memory data register and other buffers. Named by analogy with the address bus and data bus, each of which carries a set of related signals, the signals carried by the control bus are more independent. Some might include other signals such as timing (clock) and status under the term, further reducing its similarity to other busses.
- contubernal — occupying the same tent
- conurbation — A conurbation consists of a large city together with the smaller towns around it.
- cool hunter — a person who is employed to identify future trends, esp in fashion or the media
- corn gluten — gluten separated from corn during milling, used primarily as a livestock feed.
- corniculate — having horns or hornlike projections
- corpulently — In a corpulent manner.
- corrugating — Present participle of corrugate.
- corrugation — a corrugating or being corrugated
- corruptions — Plural form of corruption.
- corruptness — guilty of dishonest practices, as bribery; lacking integrity; crooked: a corrupt judge.
- coruscating — A coruscating speech or performance is lively, intelligent, and impressive.
- coruscation — a gleam or flash of light
- coterminous — having a common boundary; bordering; contiguous
- cotransduce — to cause (genes) to undergo cotransduction
- counter-ion — an ion in solution that associates itself with an ion of opposite charge on the surface of a member of a solute.
- counter-pin — bedspread.
- counteracts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of counteract.
- counterbase — a double bass
- counterbids — Plural form of counterbid.
- counterblow — a retaliatory blow
- counterbond — a bond that protects a person who has entered into a bond for another person
- counterbore — a tool for enlarging a drilled hole for a portion of its length, as to permit sinking a screw head.
- counterbuff — a retaliatory blow
- countercoup — the act of overthrowing a government that gained power via a coup d'état
- counterdraw — to copy (a painting, etc) by tracing it onto a transparent material, such as oiled paper
- counterdrug — Against the trafficking of drugs.
- counterfact — a conditional statement the first clause of which expresses something contrary to fact, as “If I had known.”.
- counterfect — counterfeit
- counterfeit — Counterfeit money, goods, or documents are not genuine, but have been made to look exactly like genuine ones in order to deceive people.
- counterfire — fire that is intended to destroy enemy weapons
- counterflow — the flowing of two fluids in opposite directions in adjacent parts of an apparatus
- counterfoil — A counterfoil is the part of a cheque, ticket, or other document that you keep when you give the other part to someone else.
- counterfort — a strengthening buttress at right angles to a retaining wall, bonded to it to prevent overturning or to increase its bending strength
- counterglow — gegenschein.
- counterions — Plural form of counterion.
- countermand — If you countermand an order, you cancel it, usually by giving a different order.
- countermark — a mark on an object that is additional to a mark already on that object, and that serves a purpose such as enhancing security, or noting a change in the value of that object, etc
- countermemo — a memorandum responding to another memorandum