12-letter words containing c, l, u, o, n
- exclusionism — The quality of being exclusionist.
- exclusionist — Acting to shut out or bar someone from a place, group, or privilege.
- exonucleases — Plural form of exonuclease.
- exulceration — the process of ulceration
- fifth column — a group of people who act traitorously and subversively out of a secret sympathy with an enemy of their country.
- flocculating — Present participle of flocculate.
- flocculation — to form into flocculent masses.
- flow country — an area of moorland and peat bogs in northern Scotland known for its wildlife, now partly afforested
- fluctuations — Plural form of fluctuation.
- fluoresceine — Alternative spelling of fluorescein.
- fluorescence — the emission of radiation, especially of visible light, by a substance during exposure to external radiation, as light or x-rays. Compare phosphorescence (def 1).
- fluorescents — Plural form of fluorescent.
- fluorocarbon — any of a class of compounds produced by substituting fluorine for hydrogen in a hydrocarbon, and characterized by great chemical stability: used chiefly as a lubricant, refrigerant, fire extinguishing agent, and in industrial and other applications in which chemical, electrical, flame, and heat resistance is essential; banned as an aerosol propellant in the U.S. because of concern about ozone layer depletion.
- forcefulness — full of force; powerful; vigorous; effective: a forceful plea for peace.
- fortruncible — A cross between Fortran and RUNCIBLE for the IBM 650. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
- four-channel — Audio. quadraphonic.
- functionable — functional (def 3).
- functionally — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- functionless — Lacking a function.
- funnel cloud — a rapidly rotating funnel-shaped cloud extending downward from the base of a cumulonimbus cloud, which, if it touches the surface of the earth, is a tornado or waterspout.
- furunculosis — the condition characterized by the presence of boils.
- gallinaceous — pertaining to or resembling the domestic fowls.
- geniculation — the state of being geniculate.
- genuflection — an act of bending the knee or touching it to the ground in reverence or worship.
- glaucousness — Quality of being glaucous.
- glucogenesis — the production of glucose by the decomposition of glycogen or from any nonglucose precursor.
- glucoprotein — glycoprotein.
- grand coulee — a dry canyon in central Washington: cut by the Columbia River in the glacial period. 52 miles (84 km) long; over 400 feet (120 meters) deep.
- granulocytes — Plural form of granulocyte.
- granulocytic — Of, or pertaining to, granulocytes.
- ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
- ground cloth — groundsheet.
- ground color — Also called ground coat. a primary coat of paint; priming; base coat.
- hallucinator — One whose judgment and acts are affected by hallucinations; one who errs on account of his hallucinations.
- hallucinogen — a substance that produces hallucinations.
- hallucinosis — a mental state characterized by repeated hallucinations.
- hill country — hilly area
- holopneustic — having all the spiracles open, as the tracheal systems of most insects.
- honey locust — a thorny North American tree, Gleditsia triacanthos, of the legume family, having small, compound leaves and pods with a sweet pulp.
- honeysuckles — Plural form of honeysuckle.
- horizon club — a division of Camp Fire, Inc., for members of high-school age.
- housecleaner — Someone employed to clean a house.
- incautiously — In an incautious manner; with a lack of caution.
- incestuously — involving incest.
- 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.
- inclusionist — (Wiktionary and WMF jargon) Describing a wiki user who tends to favor the inclusion of questionable articles.
- inclusive of — including; taking into account
- inclusive or — the connective that gives the value true to a disjunction if either or both of the disjuncts are true
- incoagulable — of a nature that cannot be coagulated
- incommutable — not exchangeable.