12-letter words containing a, n, u, l, r
- gratulations — a feeling of joy.
- ground alert — the state of waiting for orders in or near combat airplanes ready to take to the air at once.
- ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
- ground fault — the momentary, usually accidental, grounding of a conducting wire.
- ground glass — Optics. glass that has had its polished surface removed by fine grinding and that is used to diffuse light.
- ground plane — (in perspective drawing) the theoretical horizontal plane receding from the picture plane to the horizon, beginning at the level of the base line.
- ground plate — Electricity. a metal plate for making a ground connection to the earth.
- gubernacular — relating to a gubernaculum
- gubernaculum — a part or organ that directs the movement or course of another part.
- gutturalness — The quality of being guttural.
- gutturonasal — articulated in the back of the mouth and given resonance in the nasal cavity, as the sound represented by (ng) in (ring).
- half an hour — 30 minutes
- half-century — a period of 100 years.
- half-turning — split spindle.
- hallucinator — One whose judgment and acts are affected by hallucinations; one who errs on account of his hallucinations.
- hand-launder — hand-wash.
- hardy annual — a plant that can withstand freezing temperatures and which completes its life cycle within a year
- harlequinade — a pantomime, farce, or similar play in which Harlequin plays the principal part.
- harmoniously — marked by agreement in feeling, attitude, or action: a harmonious group.
- heartfulness — The state or quality of being heartful.
- hibernaculum — a protective case or covering, especially for winter, as of an animal or a plant bud.
- holothurians — Plural form of holothurian.
- housecleaner — Someone employed to clean a house.
- hypersensual — extremely or excessively sensual
- illuminators — Plural form of illuminator.
- illuminatory — Increasing informative qualities; explanatory.
- illustrating — Present participle of illustrate.
- illustration — something that illustrates, as a picture in a book or magazine.
- immensurable — immeasurable.
- in a flutter — agitated, flustered
- inaccurately — In an inaccurate manner; incorrectly; inexactly.
- inarticulate — lacking the ability to express oneself, especially in clear and effective speech: an inarticulate public speaker.
- inclusionary — (of zoning, housing programs, etc.) stipulating that a certain percentage of new housing will be priced within the reach of middle-income buyers or renters.
- incurability — The quality or state of being incurable—not being able to be cured.
- industrially — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
- infundibular — a funnel-shaped organ or part.
- inhalatorium — a room or building in which vapours are breathed in
- inoperculate — having no operculum.
- insalubrious — unfavorable to health; unwholesome.
- inscrutables — Plural form of inscrutable.
- instrumental — serving or acting as an instrument or means; useful; helpful.
- insufferable — not to be endured; intolerable; unbearable: their insufferable insolence.
- insufferably — not to be endured; intolerable; unbearable: their insufferable insolence.
- insurability — capable of being or proper to be insured, as against loss or harm.
- interfaculty — an ability, natural or acquired, for a particular kind of action: a faculty for making friends easily.
- interlingual — pertaining to or using two or more languages: an interlingual dictionary.
- interlobular — (anatomy) Between lobules.
- interlocular — having one or more locules.
- internuclear — pertaining to or involving atomic weapons: nuclear war.
- internuncial — serving to announce or connect.