12-letter words containing d, e, n, u, c
- french sudan — former name of Mali.
- 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.
- generic drug — medicine: not sold under brand name
- 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.
- grid current — the current that moves within the vacuum tube from the grid to the cathode.
- 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
- guide center — a command to a marching formation to align itself behind a guide marching at the head of the formation.
- hallucinated — Simple past tense and past participle of hallucinate.
- 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.
- in duplicate — in two copies, times two
- inadequacies — Plural form of inadequacy.
- incapsulated — Simple past tense and past participle of incapsulate.
- indecorously — not decorous; violating generally accepted standards of good taste or propriety; unseemly.
- induced drag — the drag force generated in the production of lift.
- indulgencies — indulgence.
- indulgencing — Present participle of indulgence.
- inexactitude — the quality or state of being inexact or inaccurate; inexactness.
- input device — a peripheral device, as a keyboard or stylus, used to enter data into a computer for processing.
- introductive — serving or used to introduce; preliminary; beginning: an introductory course; an introductory paragraph.
- jordan curve — simple closed curve.
- juan de fuca — a strait between Vancouver Island and NW Washington. 100 miles (160 km) long; 15–20 miles (24–32 km) wide.
- kidney punch — an illegal punch in the lower back.
- knuckle down — a joint of a finger, especially one of the articulations of a metacarpal with a phalanx.
- knuckleheads — Plural form of knucklehead.
- longicaudate — having a long posterior or tail
- manufactured — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
- masculinized — Simple past tense and past participle of masculinize.
- medical unit — a group of doctors and nurses working as part of a larger organization, such as the armed forces or a prison
- 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.
- multicentred — Having multiple centres.
- 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.
- nucleic acid — any of a group of long, linear macromolecules, either DNA or various types of RNA, that carry genetic information directing all cellular functions: composed of linked nucleotides.
- 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.