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12-letter words containing d, e, n, o, u, c

  • face down/up — If someone or something is face down, their face or front points downwards. If they are face up, their face or front points upwards.
  • food counter — a counter in a shop, bar, cafeteria, etc where food is sold or served
  • found object — a natural or manufactured object that is perceived as being aesthetically satisfying and exhibited as such.
  • friend-court — amicus curiae.
  • fundusectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of the fundus of an organ, such as the uterus or the stomach.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
  • ground cedar — a ground pine, Lycopodium complanatum.
  • ground cover — the herbaceous plants and low shrubs in a forest, considered as a whole.
  • ground force — a military force that operates on the ground
  • huffman code — Huffman coding
  • human comedy — French La Comédie Humaine. a collected edition of tales and novels in 17 volumes (1842–48) by Honoré de Balzac.
  • indecorously — not decorous; violating generally accepted standards of good taste or propriety; unseemly.
  • introductive — serving or used to introduce; preliminary; beginning: an introductory course; an introductory paragraph.
  • jordan curve — simple closed curve.
  • knuckle down — a joint of a finger, especially one of the articulations of a metacarpal with a phalanx.
  • longicaudate — having a long posterior or tail
  • mendaciously — In a lying or deceitful manner.
  • misconducted — Simple past tense and past participle of misconduct.
  • misconstrued — Simple past tense and past participle of misconstrue.
  • miseducation — to educate improperly.
  • muscle-bound — having enlarged and inelastic muscles, as from excessive exercise.
  • nonconducive — tending to produce; contributive; helpful; favorable (usually followed by to): Good eating habits are conducive to good health.
  • nondeductive — not related to deduction or subtraction
  • noneducation — not involving education
  • noninducible — to lead or move by persuasion or influence, as to some action or state of mind: to induce a person to buy a raffle ticket.
  • noninductive — not inductive: a noninductive resistance.
  • nonnucleated — having no nucleus
  • nonscheduled — not scheduled; not entered on or having a schedule; unscheduled: nonscheduled activities.
  • 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
  • old chestnut — old saying, cliché
  • old mine cut — a brilliant cut, common in the 19th century, retaining a relatively high proportion of the original stone and having a large culet and small table compared to modern brilliants.
  • opendocument — (file format, standard)   (ODF, ISO/IEC 26300, OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications) An XML file format for office documents, such as spreadsheets, charts, presentations, databases and word processing. OpenDocument was developed by the Open Office XML technical committee of the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) consortium. It is based on the XML format originally created and implemented by the OpenOffice.org office suite. OpenDocument is an open standard, i.e. freely available and implementable. Compare OOXML.
  • outdistanced — Simple past tense and past participle of outdistance.
  • outdistances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outdistance.
  • overclouding — Present participle of overcloud.
  • overconsumed — Simple past tense and past participle of overconsume.
  • overdiscount — to discount excessively
  • overdocument — to document excessively
  • pandanaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Pandanaceae, an Old World tropical family of monocotyledonous plants including the screw pines
  • pediculation — the act or process of growing a stalk or pedicle
  • photoinduced — induced by light.
  • ponce around — If you say that someone is poncing around or poncing about, you mean that they are not doing something properly, quickly, or seriously.
  • pre-conclude — to bring to an end; finish; terminate: to conclude a speech with a quotation from the Bible.
  • pre-discount — to deduct a certain amount from (a bill, charge, etc.): All bills that are paid promptly will be discounted at two percent.
  • preannounced — to make known publicly or officially; proclaim; give notice of: to announce a special sale.
  • preinduction — occurring before an induction
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