12-letter words containing c, a, u
- adjudicature — An act of adjudication; a judgment.
- adjunctively — in an adjunctive manner
- adjunctivity — The state or quality of being adjunctive, or of forming or constituting an adjunct.
- adminiculary — Adminicular.
- adminiculate — to attest or corroborate; to confirm or affirm as true
- adscititious — added or supplemental; additional
- adularescent — (of minerals, such as moonstone) having or emitting a milky or bluish iridescence
- aeroacoustic — Relating to aeroacoustics.
- aeronautical — Aeronautical means involving or relating to the design and construction of aeroplanes.
- agaricaceous — belonging to the Agaricaceae, a family of fungi including mushrooms having blade-shaped gills on the underside of the cap.
- agency nurse — a nurse employed by an agency, rather than by a hospital
- agony column — In a British newspaper or magazine, the agony column contains letters from readers about their personal problems, and advice on what to do about them.
- agranulocyte — a white blood cell without granules in its cytoplasm
- agricultural — Agricultural means involving or relating to agriculture.
- agriproducts — Plural form of agriproduct.
- ailurophilic — relating to ailurophilia
- ailurophobic — relating to ailurophobia
- alalcomeneus — the first man: he reared Athena and reconciled Zeus and Hera.
- alcaptonuria — Alternative spelling of alkaptonuria.
- alias dictus — otherwise called; alias.
- alphanumeric — (of a character set, code, or file of data) consisting of alphabetical and numerical symbols
- altiloquence — Pompous language; lofty speech.
- ambulanceman — An ambulanceman is a man who drives an ambulance or takes care of people in an ambulance on the way to hospital.
- aminobutyric — (organic chemistry) Of or pertaining to any of several isomeric univalent radicals in which a hydrogen atom of a butyric radical is replaced by an amino group.
- amphicarpous — producing two kinds of fruit that differ either in form or in time of ripening.
- amphicoelous — (of the vertebrae of most fishes and some amphibians) concave at the anterior and posterior ends
- amphithecium — the outer layer of cells of the sporophyte of mosses and liverworts that develops into the outer parts of the spore-bearing capsule
- ampullaceous — shaped like an ampulla or a bladder
- amuse-bouche — an appetizer before a meal
- anacolouthon — Alternative spelling of anacoluthon (A break in sequence, that occurs when the scheme of a sentence is changed in its course. Incoherence in a sentence.).
- anacrogynous — having the female sex organs arising from any cell below the apex of the stem, thereby not terminating its growth, as certain liverworts.
- and counting — If you say and counting after a number or an amount of something, you mean that the number or amount is continuing to increase.
- androclinium — clinandrium.
- anemochorous — (of a fruit, seed, or spore) adapted for dispersion by wind.
- aneurysmatic — (medicine) Describing a blood vessel that has an aneurysm; aneurysmal.
- angiocarpous — being or having fruit contained in a vessel such as a shell
- animalculism — the theory explaining psychological and pathological phenomena through animalcules
- animalculist — a person who subscribes to the theory of animalculism
- animalculous — a minute or microscopic animal, nearly or quite invisible to the naked eye, as an infusorian or rotifer.
- announceable — to make known publicly or officially; proclaim; give notice of: to announce a special sale.
- announcement — An announcement is a statement made to the public or to the media which gives information about something that has happened or that will happen.
- annunciating — Present participle of annunciate.
- annunciation — In Christianity, the Annunciation was the announcement by the Archangel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary that she was going to give birth to the son of God.
- annunciators — Plural form of annunciator.
- annunciatory — to announce.
- antebrachium — (anatomy) The forearm.
- anthocarpous — resembling or pertaining to an anthocarp
- anti-nuclear — opposed to military and industrial applications of nuclear energy and to technologies which produce radioactive waste products
- antibacchius — a metrical foot consisting of three syllables, of which the first two are long and the third is short
- antibrachium — (anatomy) alternative spelling of antebrachium.