12-letter words containing c, a, u, s, i
- misconstrual — A misinterpretation of the meaning of something.
- miseducation — to educate improperly.
- mispunctuate — to punctuate incorrectly.
- moustachioed — Alternative spelling of moustachio\u2019d.
- mucilaginous — of, relating to, or secreting mucilage.
- multi-pascal — An extension of Pascal-S with multiprocessing features. Used in "The Art of Parallel Programming", Bruce P. Lester, P-H 1993.
- multicasting — the act or process of a person or thing that casts.
- multicostate — having several costae or ribs
- multisulcate — having many grooves or furrows
- municipalism — the principle or system of home rule by a municipality.
- museological — Pertaining to museology.
- musica ficta — the use of chromatically altered tones in the contrapuntal music of the 10th to the 16th centuries.
- musical ride — a display by riders on horseback of manoeuvres to music, esp by members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
- musicianship — knowledge, skill, and artistic sensitivity in performing music.
- naturalistic — imitating nature or the usual natural surroundings.
- net curtains — curtains made of a thin light mesh fabric of cotton, nylon, or other fibre
- neurasthenic — pertaining to or suffering from neurasthenia.
- neuroplastic — Of or pertaining to neuroplasticity.
- neutralistic — Employing or relating to neutralism.
- nitrous acid — an acid, HNO 2 , known only in solution.
- noctambulism — somnambulism.
- noctambulist — somnambulism.
- noncausative — Not causative.
- noncustodial — Not having custody of one’s children after a divorce.
- nondualistic — of, relating to, or of the nature of dualism.
- noninsurance — the condition or state of not having insurance
- nucleocapsid — the nucleic acid core and surrounding capsid of a virus; the basic viral structure.
- nucleosidase — any of the class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of nucleosides.
- nucleotidase — a biochemical catalyst that facilitates the process of hydrolyzing or splitting a nucleotide and turning it into a phosphate and a nucleoside
- nuisance tax — a tax paid in small but frequent amounts, usually by consumers.
- numismatical — Alternative form of numismatic.
- obfuscations — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- obscurantism — opposition to the increase and spread of knowledge.
- obscurantist — opposition to the increase and spread of knowledge.
- obscurations — Plural form of obscuration.
- octastichous — relating to a particular coiled distribution of leaves on the stem that is characterized by having eight leaves per coil on the stem
- oncornavirus — any of various RNA viruses that cause tumors in humans and other animals.
- optoacoustic — relating to the relationship between light and sound
- orchidaceous — belonging to the plant family Orchidaceae.
- orichalceous — relating to or resembling orichalc
- osco-umbrian — a group of languages, usually classified as Italic, that contains Oscan and Umbrian.
- otacousticon — (now rare) An instrument to aid hearing, such as an ear trumpet or hearing aid.
- outdistanced — Simple past tense and past participle of outdistance.
- outdistances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outdistance.
- overcautious — excessively or unnecessarily cautious: Sometimes it doesn't pay to be overcautious in business.
- overissuance — the act of issuing in excessive amounts
- packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
- paludicolous — inhabiting marshland
- particulates — very small particles of a substance, esp those that are produced when fuel is burned
- patroclinous — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the paternal parent (opposed to matrocliny).