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11-letter words containing c, u

  • autological — (grammar) Of a phrase (especially an adjective), possessing the property it describes.
  • automagical — (of a usually complicated technical or computer process) done, operating, or happening in a way that is hidden from or not understood by the user, and in that sense, apparently “magical”: I just downloaded an automagical update to my word processing software that somehow fixed the problems.
  • automatical — Archaic form of automatic.
  • automorphic — shaped and designed after oneself
  • autonomical — autonomous.
  • autoplastic — Of or pertaining to autoplasty.
  • autopotamic — (of an organism) living or growing only in flowing freshwater streams.
  • autotrophic — (of organisms such as green plants) capable of manufacturing complex organic nutritive compounds from simple inorganic sources such as carbon dioxide, water, and nitrates, using energy from the sun
  • auxochromic — any radical or group of atoms that intensifies the color of a substance.
  • auxotrophic — designating or of a mutant organism requiring more nutritional substances than its prototrophic parent because it has lost the ability to make a certain enzyme
  • averruncate — to avert, to turn away
  • avicularium — a protective zooid of a bryozoan colony, having movable jaws that can be snapped shut.
  • avuncularly — in the manner of an uncle
  • b1 security — Orange Book
  • b2 security — Orange Book
  • b3 security — Orange Book
  • babelicious — (of a woman) sexually very attractive.
  • bacciferous — bearing berries
  • baccivorous — feeding on berries
  • back burner — If you put an issue on the back burner, you leave it in order to deal with it later because you now consider it to have become less urgent or important.
  • back number — A back number of a magazine or newspaper is the same as a back issue.
  • back out of — to withdraw from (an enterprise)
  • back-burner — a condition of low priority or temporary deferment (usually used in the phrase on the back burner): Put other issues on the back burner until after the election.
  • back-mutate — to undergo back mutation.
  • backcountry — an area far from cities and towns that is thinly populated and largely undeveloped; hinterland
  • backdraught — a reverse movement of air, gas, or liquid
  • backgrounds — Plural form of background.
  • baconburger — a hamburger topped with strips of cooked bacon.
  • bacteriuria — the presence of bacteria in the urine
  • baculovirus — any of a family of viruses that attack insects and other arthropods, used as biological pesticides
  • bagna cauda — a dip made from garlic, anchovies, butter, and olive oil, usually served hot over a spirit burner, with raw vegetables
  • balance lug — a lugsail having a portion of its area forward of the mast and having a long foot, often with a boom.
  • balance out — If two or more opposite things balance out or if you balance them out, they become equal in amount, value, or effect.
  • baluchistan — a mountainous region of SW Asia, in SW Pakistan and SE Iran
  • bancassurer — a bank that sells insurance products
  • bannockburn — a village in central Scotland, south of Stirling: nearby is the site of a victory (1314) of the Scots, led by Robert the Bruce, over the English. Pop: 7396 (2001)
  • bareknuckle — (of a prizefight, prizefighter, etc.) without boxing gloves; using the bare fists.
  • barracoutas — Plural form of barracouta.
  • barracudina — any of several slender, large-mouthed, pelagic fishes of the family Paralepididae.
  • barrel cuff — a single cuff on a tailored sleeve, formed by a band of material and usually fastened by a button.
  • base clause — the initial element of a recursive definition, that defines the first element of the infinite sequence generated thereby
  • basicranium — (anatomy) The inferior region of the skull.
  • bastard cut — (of a file) having medium teeth; intermediate between a coarse cut and a fine cut
  • bateau neck — boat neck.
  • baudot code — (communications)   (For etymology, see baud) A character set predating EBCDIC and used originally and primarily on paper tape. Use of Baudot reportedly survives in TDDs and some HAM radio applications. In Baudot, characters are expressed using five bits. Baudot uses two code sub-sets, the "letter set" (LTRS), and the "figure set" (FIGS). The FIGS character (11011) signals that the following code is to be interpreted as being in the FIGS set, until this is reset by the LTRS (11111) character. binary hex LTRS FIGS -------------------------- 00011 03 A - 11001 19 B ? 01110 0E C : 01001 09 D $ 00001 01 E 3 01101 0D F ! 11010 1A G & 10100 14 H # 00110 06 I 8 01011 0B J BELL 01111 0F K ( 10010 12 L ) 11100 1C M . 01100 0C N , 11000 18 O 9 10110 16 P 0 10111 17 Q 1 01010 0A R 4 00101 05 S ' 10000 10 T 5 00111 07 U 7 11110 1E V ; 10011 13 W 2 11101 1D X / 10101 15 Y 6 10001 11 Z " 01000 08 CR CR 00010 02 LF LF 00100 04 SP SP 11111 1F LTRS LTRS 11011 1B FIGS FIGS 00000 00 [..unused..] Where CR is carriage return, LF is linefeed, BELL is the bell, SP is space, and STOP is the stop character. Note: these bit values are often shown in inverse order, depending (presumably) which side of the paper tape you were looking at. Local implementations of Baudot may differ in the use of #, STOP, BELL, and '.
  • baume scale — a scale for calibrating hydrometers used for measuring the specific gravity of liquids. 1 degree Baumé is equal to 144.3((s–1)/s), where s is specific gravity
  • beach buggy — a low car, often open and with balloon tyres, for driving on sand
  • beach house — a holiday house overlooking a beach
  • beancounter — Alternative spelling of bean counter.
  • beauticians — Plural form of beautician.
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