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11-letter words that end in n

  • chord organ — an electronic organ having a small keyboard for the right hand and for the left hand a set of buttons each of which produces a full chord when pushed.
  • choukoutien — Wade-Giles. Zhoukoudian.
  • chrismation — a rite of initiation involving anointing with chrism and taking place at the same time as baptism
  • chrysarobin — a tasteless odourless powder containing anthraquinone derivatives of araroba, formerly used medicinally to treat chronic skin conditions
  • chuck wagon — a wagon carrying provisions and cooking utensils for men, such as cowboys, who work in the open
  • chum salmon — a large salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) with pale flesh, found in the N Pacific
  • churchwoman — a female practising member of a church
  • churchwomen — Plural form of churchwoman.
  • chylomicron — a minute droplet of fat, found in blood and chyle, that is the form in which dietary fat is carried in these fluids
  • chymopapain — papain, esp. when injected into a slipped disk to dissolve pain-causing soft cartilage
  • ciclosporin — a drug extracted from a fungus and used after organ transplantation to suppress the body's immune mechanisms, and so prevent rejection of an organ
  • cinefaction — (obsolete, rare) cineration; reduction to ashes.
  • circulation — The circulation of a newspaper or magazine is the number of copies that are sold each time it is produced.
  • civil union — a legally recognized marriage-like union of same-sex partners
  • clackmannan — a town in E central Scotland, in Clackmannanshire. Pop: 3450 (2001)
  • clay pigeon — Clay pigeons are discs of baked clay which are thrown into the air by a machine as targets for gun shooting practice.
  • clean up on — to defeat; beat
  • cleanshaven — having all the hairs shaved off
  • clergywoman — a female member of the clergy
  • clergywomen — Plural form of clergywoman.
  • clindamycin — an antibiotic used to treat bacterial infections
  • close to/on — Close to a particular amount or distance means slightly less than that amount or distance. In British English, you can also say close on a particular amount or distance.
  • closed plan — an office floor plan consisting of fully enclosed office spaces.
  • clothes-pin — a device, such as a forked piece of wood or plastic, for fastening articles to a clothesline.
  • cloxacillin — a semisynthetic penicillin used to treat staphylococcal infections due to penicillin-resistant organisms
  • co-chairman — one of two or more joint chairmen.
  • co-location — (networking)   /koh'loh-kay`sh*n/ or /koh`loh-kay'sh*n/ (Or "colocation") Providing network connections such as Internet leased lines to several servers housed together in a server room. This is typically provided as a commercial service. The hyphenated form is correct and the most common on the web, followed by "colocation". "collocation" (/ko`loh-kay'sh*n/, not /koh'-/), is an old word with a similar meaning. It is common in dictionaries and follows the pattern of other Latin-derived words like collect, college, and collate, but is least common on the web. The verbal form is "to colocate" or "co-locate" (commonly /koh'loh`kayt/, also (US) /koh`loh'kayt/).
  • co-relation — correlation
  • coadunation — (obsolete) union into a single body or mass; unity.
  • coagulation — Coagulation is the process of changing from a liquid to a gel or solid, for example, the process that results in the formation of a blood clot.
  • coarctation — Pathology. a narrowing of the lumen of a blood vessel. a congenital anomaly of the heart in which there is a narrowing of the aorta, resulting in abnormal blood flow.
  • codirection — joint direction
  • coeducation — instruction in schools, colleges, etc, attended by both sexes
  • coelenteron — the simple saclike body cavity of a coelenterate
  • coevolution — the evolution of complementary adaptations in two or more species of organisms because of a special relationship that exists between them, as in insect-pollinated plants and their insect pollinators
  • coextension — The act of extending equally, or the state of being equally extended.
  • coextrusion — simultaneous extrusion of two or more different yet compatible metals or plastics through the same die.
  • coffee bean — Coffee beans are small dark-brown beans that are roasted and ground to make coffee. They are the seeds of the coffee plant.
  • cold fusion — the process of creating nuclear fusion at room temperature in order to create a power source
  • coleopteran — any of the insects of the cosmopolitan order Coleoptera, in which the forewings are modified to form shell-like protective elytra. The order includes the beetles and weevils
  • coleopteron — a member of a large order of insects having the front wings modified as hard wing-cases, and comprising the beetles and weevils
  • colicinogen — any bacterium that produces a colicin.
  • collembolan — any small primitive wingless insect of the order Collembola, which comprises the springtails
  • colligation — A binding together.
  • collimation — to bring into line; make parallel.
  • collocation — In linguistics, collocation is the way that some words occur regularly whenever another word is used.
  • colophonian — a native of Colophon.
  • colouration — (British spelling) alternative spelling of coloration.
  • combed yarn — cotton or worsted yarn of fibers laid parallel, superior in smoothness to carded yarn.
  • combination — A combination of things is a mixture of them.
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