12-letter words containing a, u, t, o, n, i
- continuances — Plural form of continuance.
- continuation — The continuation of something is the fact that it continues, rather than stopping.
- continuative — serving or tending to continue
- contributary — contributory
- contriturate — to triturate completely
- contumacious — stubbornly resistant to authority; wilfully obstinate
- conurbations — Plural form of conurbation.
- coquilla nut — the nut of a South American palm tree, Attalea funifera, having a hard brown shell used for carving
- corrugations — the act or state of corrugating or of being corrugated.
- corruscating — Present participle of corruscate.
- cosmonautics — astronautics, especially as applied to space flight.
- council flat — a flat built or owned by a local council
- countability — the fact of being countable
- counter-raid — a sudden assault or attack, as upon something to be seized or suppressed: a police raid on a gambling ring.
- counterclaim — a claim set up in opposition to another, esp by the defendant in a civil action against the plaintiff
- counterimage — a corresponding image
- counterstain — to apply two or more stains in sequence to (a specimen to be examined), each of which colours a different tissue
- countervails — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of countervail.
- court action — a legal action
- crenulations — Plural form of crenulation.
- culminations — The highest or climactic point of something, esp. as attained after a long time.
- curtain hook — a hook used to attach a curtain to a curtain rail
- curtain pole — a pole from which a curtain is hung in front of a window, door, etc
- cutinization — a process in which the outermost plant cells become thickened and covered with cutin, making them waterproof
- dance studio — A dance studio is a place where people pay to learn how to dance.
- day in court — an opportunity to present one's side of a matter, as in a court of law
- decrustation — the act of removing a crust
- decumulation — a decrease in amount or value
- defraudation — (obsolete) The act of defrauding; a taking by fraud.
- demodulating — Present participle of demodulate.
- demodulation — the act or process by which an output wave or signal is obtained having the characteristics of the original modulating wave or signal; the reverse of modulation
- denaturation — to deprive (something) of its natural character, properties, etc.
- denunciation — Denunciation of someone or something is severe public criticism of them.
- denunciatory — characterized by or given to denunciation.
- depopulating — Present participle of depopulate.
- depopulation — to remove or reduce the population of, as by destruction or expulsion.
- deputization — the act of making someone a deputy
- deregulation — Deregulation is the removal of controls and restrictions in a particular area of business or trade.
- desaturation — the addition of white light to a pure colour to produce a paler less saturated colour
- desquamation — to come off in scales, as the skin in certain diseases; peel off.
- deuteranopia — a form of colour blindness in which there is a tendency to confuse blues and greens, and greens and reds, and in which sensitivity to green is reduced
- devaluations — Plural form of devaluation.
- diamond dust — pulverized diamonds, used as an abrasive.
- difunctional — Bifunctional.
- dijudication — the act or process of dijudicating
- dilucidation — elucidation
- discountable — That can be discounted (in all senses).
- disinvoltura — Self-assurance; lack of constraint.
- disputations — Plural form of disputation.
- docutainment — infotainment (def 2).