11-letter words containing cen
- multicentre — Of or pertaining to multiple centres.
- munificence — the quality of being munificent, or showing unusual generosity: The museum's collection was greatly increased by the munificence of the family's gift.
- naphthacene — an explosive solid compound, C 1 8 H 1 2 , derived from anthracene and coal tar: used for detonating high explosives, as TNT.
- nigrescence — tending toward black; blackish.
- noctilucent — (of high-altitude clouds) visible during the short night of the summer.
- nonadjacent — lying near, close, or contiguous; adjoining; neighboring: a motel adjacent to the highway.
- obsceneness — Quality of being obscene.
- obscenities — the character or quality of being obscene; indecency; lewdness.
- obsolescent — becoming obsolete; passing out of use, as a word: an obsolescent term.
- off-licence — a license permitting the sale of sealed bottles of alcoholic beverages to be taken away from the premises by the purchaser.
- off-license — a license permitting the sale of sealed bottles of alcoholic beverages to be taken away from the premises by the purchaser.
- omnificence — creating all things; having unlimited powers of creation.
- opalescence — exhibiting a play of colors like that of the opal.
- orthocenter — the point of intersection of the three altitudes of a triangle.
- orthocentre — Point at which the perpendiculars from the angles of a triangle intersect.
- pallescence — the condition of being pallescent
- parascender — a person who takes part in parascending
- parascenium — either of two wings flanking and extending forward from the skene of an ancient Greek theater.
- pearlescent — having an iridescent luster resembling that of pearl; nacreous: healthy skin with a pearlescent glow.
- pericentral — arranged around a centre
- pericentric — the point at which a heavenly body orbiting around a primary other than the earth or sun is closest to the primary.
- play-centre — a regular meeting of small children arranged by their parents or a welfare agency to give them an opportunity of supervised creative play
- pleistocene — noting or pertaining to the epoch forming the earlier half of the Quaternary Period, beginning about two million years ago and ending 10,000 years ago, characterized by widespread glacial ice and the advent of modern humans.
- polycentric — having many centers, especially of power or importance: the polycentric world of banking.
- 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
- precentress — a female precentor
- putrescence — becoming putrid; undergoing putrefaction.
- quiescently — being at rest; quiet; still; inactive or motionless: a quiescent mind.
- radiolucent — almost entirely transparent to radiation; almost entirely invisible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy.
- reascension — the process or act of reascending
- recalescent — a brightening exhibited by cooling iron as latent heat of transformation is liberated.
- relicensure — the process of being licensed again to practise a particular profession
- reminiscent — awakening memories of something similar; suggestive (usually followed by of): His style of writing is reminiscent of Melville's.
- rest centre — a place where people can rest
- revivescent — reviving
- reviviscent — the act or state of being revived; revival; reanimation.
- roll center — The roll center is the center about which a vehicle body rolls.
- sao vicente — an island city in SE Brazil.
- sarcenchyme — the connective tissue of some sponges
- sauk centre — a town in central Minnesota: model for town in Sinclair Lewis's novel Main Street.
- scene shift — the changing of scenes during a play
- scenography — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
- scent gland — any of various specialized skin glands, occurring in many kinds of animals, that emit an odor commonly functioning as a social or sexual signal or a defensive weapon.
- scent spray — perfume that comes in an aerosol bottle
- skillcentre — an institution providing vocational training or retraining for employed or unemployed people
- soft centre — a chocolate that has a soft filling
- st. vincent — Saint, died a.d. 304, Spanish martyr: patron saint of winegrowers.
- subadjacent — lying near, close, or contiguous; adjoining; neighboring: a motel adjacent to the highway.
- sublicensee — a person, company, etc., to whom a sublicense is granted.
- supercenter — a very large shopping centre or complex