12-letter words containing a, l, u, n, i
- calumniation — to make false and malicious statements about; slander.
- calumniators — Plural form of calumniator.
- calumniatory — of, involving, or using calumny; slanderous; defamatory.
- calumniously — in a calumnious manner
- camouflaging — Present participle of camouflage.
- canaliculate — having a groove or grooves
- capitulating — Present participle of capitulate.
- capitulation — the act of capitulating
- carillonneur — a person who plays a carillon
- cash-in-lieu — Cash-in-lieu is payment of cash instead of stock when a stock splits or changes and the shareholder only owns a partial share.
- caterwauling — the shrieking and yowling made by a cat, for example when it is on heat or fighting
- centuplicate — to increase 100 times
- chaplinesque — characteristic of or resembling the comedy or filmmaking style of Charlie Chaplin.
- chat-up line — A chat-up line is a remark that someone makes in order to start a conversation with someone they do not know but find sexually attractive.
- cheluviation — the leaching of chelates through soil
- churchillian — relating to, typical of or reminiscent of Winston Churchill
- cip language — language> (CIP-L, Computer-aided Intuition-guided Programming Language) A wide-spectrum language for incremental program transformation. There are ALGOL- and Pascal-like variants.
- circularness — The state or quality of being circular.
- circulations — Plural form of circulation.
- clairaudient — the power to hear sounds said to exist beyond the reach of ordinary experience or capacity, as the voices of the dead.
- claudication — limping; lameness
- claustration — the act of confining to a small space (usually a cloister)
- clearcutting — the act of felling all trees in area
- coal-burning — fuelled by burning coal
- colliquation — liquefaction
- colluctation — a struggle or conflict
- coloquintida — colocynth (defs 1, 2).
- colourations — Plural form of colouration.
- columnarized — columnar (def 3).
- columniation — the arrangement of architectural columns
- communicable — A communicable disease is one that can be passed on to other people.
- communicably — capable of being easily communicated or transmitted: communicable information; a communicable disease.
- conclusional — the end or close; final part.
- conductorial — relating to a conductor
- conduplicate — folded lengthways on itself
- configurable — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
- conglutinant — (of the edges of a wound or fracture) promoting union; adhesive
- conglutinate — to cause (the edges of a wound or fracture) to join during the process of healing or (of the edges of a wound or fracture) to join during this process
- congruential — (mathematics) That uses congruency (division by a modulus).
- conjunctival — the mucous membrane that lines the exposed portion of the eyeball and inner surface of the eyelids.
- connubialism — the state of being married
- connubiality — of marriage or wedlock; matrimonial; conjugal: connubial love.
- consultation — A consultation is a meeting which is held to discuss something. Consultation is discussion about something.
- consultative — A consultative committee or document gives advice or makes proposals about a particular problem or subject.
- contagiously — capable of being transmitted by bodily contact with an infected person or object: contagious diseases.
- containerful — As much as a container can hold.
- continuality — of regular or frequent recurrence; often repeated; very frequent: continual bus departures.
- convulsional — relating to convulsions
- coquilla nut — the nut of a South American palm tree, Attalea funifera, having a hard brown shell used for carving
- council area — any of the 32 unitary authorities into which Scotland has been divided for administrative purposes since April 1996