11-letter words containing a, l, u, m, n
- cumbernauld — a town in central Scotland, in North Lanarkshire, northeast of Glasgow: developed as a new town since 1956. Pop: 49 664 (2001)
- curtailment — The curtailment of something is the act of reducing or limiting it.
- cut a melon — to declare an abnormally high dividend to shareholders
- datum plane — the horizontal plane from which heights and depths are calculated
- demand-pull — designating or having to do with a form of inflation in which prices are driven up by an excess demand for goods and services, relative to their supply
- demountable — to remove from a mounting, setting, or place of support, as a gun.
- denumerable — capable of being put into a one-to-one correspondence with the positive integers; countable
- denumerably — In a denumerable manner.
- deplumation — to deprive of feathers; pluck.
- dual number — a grammatical number category referring to exactly two persons or things
- emolumental — relating to emolument
- emparlaunce — an act of parleying or conferring
- endoluminal — Lb anatomy Within the lumen.
- explanandum — That which is to be explained.
- family unit — a social group traditionally consisting of parents and children
- filamentous — composed of or containing filaments.
- fluvoxamine — an antidepressant drug that acts by preventing the re-uptake after release of serotonin in the brain, thereby prolonging its action
- formula one — the top class of professional motor racing
- formulating — Present participle of formulate.
- formulation — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
- fulminating — Present participle of fulminate.
- fulmination — a violent denunciation or censure: a sermon that was one long fulmination.
- fulminatory — Thundering; striking terror.
- funambulate — to walk on a tightrope
- funambulism — The art of walking on a tightrope or a slack-rope.
- funambulist — a tightrope walker.
- fundamental — serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying: fundamental principles; the fundamental structure.
- gemmulation — the process of reproduction by gemmules.
- genu valgum — knock-knee.
- glucosamine — an aminosugar occurring in many polysaccharides of vertebrate tissue and also as the major component of chitin.
- glutaminase — an enzyme used to treat cancer
- granuliform — having a granular structure
- granulomata — an inflammatory tumor or growth composed of granulation tissue.
- guildswoman — a woman who is a member of a guild
- haemolutein — (obsolete) bilirubin.
- half-minute — 30 seconds
- harmfulness — causing or capable of causing harm; injurious: a harmful idea; a harmful habit.
- herculaneum — an ancient city in SW Italy, on the Bay of Naples: buried along with Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in a.d. 79; partially excavated.
- holman hunt — (James Henry) Leigh [lee] /li/ (Show IPA), 1784–1859, English essayist, poet, and editor.
- homonuclear — a homonuclear molecule is composed of atoms of the same element or isotope and all of its nuclei are alike
- humiliating — lowering the pride, self-respect, or dignity of a person; mortifying: Such a humiliating defeat was good for his overblown ego.
- humiliation — an act or instance of humiliating or being humiliated.
- illuminable — capable of being illuminated.
- illuminance — illumination (def 6).
- illuminants — Plural form of illuminant.
- illuminated — to supply or brighten with light; light up.
- illuminates — to supply or brighten with light; light up.
- illuminator — a person or thing that illuminates.
- incunabulum — A book, single sheet, or image that was printed — not handwritten — before the year 1501 in Europe.
- infraphylum — (taxonomy) A taxon below subphylum and above superclass.