12-letter words containing a, c, n, d, u
- duodecennial — relating to twelve years
- duplex chain — a roller chain having two sets of rollers linked together, used for heavy-duty applications
- duplications — Plural form of duplication.
- dutch guiana — former name of Suriname.
- educatedness — the quality of being educated
- educationese — the jargon associated with the field of education.
- educationist — a specialist in the theory and methods of education.
- edulcorating — Present participle of edulcorate.
- edulcoration — (rare) A sweetening.
- edvard munch — Edvard [ed-vahrd] /ˈɛd vɑrd/ (Show IPA), 1863–1944, Norwegian painter and graphic artist.
- elucidations — Plural form of elucidation.
- encapsulated — Simple past tense and past participle of encapsulate.
- enculturated — Simple past tense and past participle of enculturate.
- endonuclease — An enzyme that cleaves a polynucleotide chain by separating nucleotides other than the two end ones.
- endovascular — Within a blood vessel.
- equidistance — (uncountable) Equal distance.
- face down/up — If someone or something is face down, their face or front points downwards. If they are face up, their face or front points upwards.
- french sudan — former name of Mali.
- fungicidally — in a fungicidal manner
- futtock band — a metal band around a lower mast somewhat below the top, for holding the lower ends of a futtock shroud.
- grand coulee — a dry canyon in central Washington: cut by the Columbia River in the glacial period. 52 miles (84 km) long; over 400 feet (120 meters) deep.
- ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
- ground cedar — a ground pine, Lycopodium complanatum.
- ground track — the path on the earth's surface below an aircraft, missile, rocket, or spacecraft.
- hallucinated — Simple past tense and past participle of hallucinate.
- huffman code — Huffman coding
- human comedy — French La Comédie Humaine. a collected edition of tales and novels in 17 volumes (1842–48) by Honoré de Balzac.
- hydronautics — (nautical) The science of the design and construction of ships, their engines, and their instrumentation.
- in duplicate — in two copies, times two
- inadequacies — Plural form of inadequacy.
- incapsulated — Simple past tense and past participle of incapsulate.
- induced drag — the drag force generated in the production of lift.
- inexactitude — the quality or state of being inexact or inaccurate; inexactness.
- infraduction — (medicine) The turning downward of a part, especially of the eye.
- injudicially — in an unlawful manner
- iracundulous — easily angered or irritable
- jordan curve — simple closed curve.
- juan de fuca — a strait between Vancouver Island and NW Washington. 100 miles (160 km) long; 15–20 miles (24–32 km) wide.
- knock around — to strike a sounding blow with the fist, knuckles, or anything hard, especially on a door, window, or the like, as in seeking admittance, calling attention, or giving a signal: to knock on the door before entering.
- knuckleheads — Plural form of knucklehead.
- locus standi — the right of a party to appear and be heard before a court
- longicaudate — having a long posterior or tail
- manufactured — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
- masculinized — Simple past tense and past participle of masculinize.
- medical unit — a group of doctors and nurses working as part of a larger organization, such as the armed forces or a prison
- mendaciously — In a lying or deceitful manner.
- miseducation — to educate improperly.
- mooch around — If you mooch around or mooch about a place, you move around there slowly with no particular purpose.
- multiplicand — a number to be multiplied by another.
- nand circuit — Computers. a circuit that is energized when any one of its inputs is not energized.