12-letter words containing i, m, u, n, o
- nonnumerical — not containing or involving numbers
- nonunanimous — not unanimous
- northumbrian — of or relating to Northumbria, Northumberland, or the inhabitants or dialect of either.
- nothing much — not a lot
- nourishments — Plural form of nourishment.
- numerologist — A practitioner of numerology.
- numinousness — The state or quality of being numinous.
- nursing home — a private residential institution equipped to care for persons unable to look after themselves, as the aged or chronically ill.
- nuxi problem — (data, architecture) /nuk'see pro'bl*m/ The problem of transferring data between computers with differing byte order. The string "Unix" might look like "NUXI" on a machine with a different "byte sex" (e.g. when transferring data from a little-endian to a big-endian, or vice-versa). See also middle-endian, swab, and bytesexual.
- obambulation — (obsolete) Wandering about; a casual outing.
- obscurantism — opposition to the increase and spread of knowledge.
- 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.
- omnibus bill — a bill dealing with, or providing for many different things or cases
- omnivorously — eating both animal and plant foods.
- on your mind — If something is on your mind, you are worried or concerned about it and think about it a lot.
- original gum — See o.g (def 1).
- ornithogalum — any plant of the genus Ornithogalum
- osco-umbrian — a group of languages, usually classified as Italic, that contains Oscan and Umbrian.
- outcompeting — to strive to outdo another for acknowledgment, a prize, supremacy, profit, etc.; engage in a contest; vie: to compete in a race; to compete in business.
- outmigration — to leave a region, community, etc., to move or settle into a different part of one's country or home territory: People are no longer out-migrating from the South in such large numbers.
- outnumbering — Present participle of outnumber.
- parsimonious — characterized by or showing parsimony; frugal or stingy.
- periodontium — the bone, connective tissue, and gum surrounding and supporting a tooth.
- perionychium — the epidermis surrounding the base and sides of a fingernail or toenail.
- plumbaginous — containing graphite.
- pneumocystis — any protozoan of the genus Pneumocystis, esp P. carinii, which is a cause of pneumonia in people whose immune defences have been lowered by drugs or a disease
- pneumotropic — directed toward or having an affinity for lung tissue.
- poison sumac — a shrub or small tree, Rhus vernix (or Toxicodendron vernix), of swampy areas of the eastern U.S., having pinnate leaves and causing severe dermatitis when touched by persons sensitive to it.
- postliminium — postliminy.
- postliminous — occurring after; subsequent
- premium bond — In Britain, premium bonds are numbered tickets that are sold by the government. Each month, a computer selects several numbers, and the people whose tickets have those numbers win money.
- premium loan — a loan made by a life-insurance company in order that a policyholder may pay the due premium, the cash value on the policy serving as security.
- progymnasium — (in Europe) a school that prepares pupils for secondary education (the gymnasium)
- promulgation — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- protactinium — a radioactive, metallic element. Symbol: Pa; atomic number: 91.
- pseudoanemia — Pathology. a quantitative deficiency of the hemoglobin, often accompanied by a reduced number of red blood cells and causing pallor, weakness, and breathlessness.
- pseudonymity — pseudonymous character.
- public money — money that has been collected by the state, usually through taxation
- puerto limon — Limón (def 2).
- pumice stone — abrasive stone used for exfoliating
- pumice-stone — Also called pumice stone. a porous or spongy form of volcanic glass, used as an abrasive.
- quadrinomial — consisting of four terms.
- quadrominium — a building consisting of four individually owned apartments or living units.
- quasi-normal — conforming to the standard or the common type; usual; not abnormal; regular; natural.
- querimonious — Complaining; querulous. (from 17th c.).
- rambunctious — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
- reassumption — the act or process of reassuming something
- reductionism — the theory that every complex phenomenon, especially in biology or psychology, can be explained by analyzing the simplest, most basic physical mechanisms that are in operation during the phenomenon.
- remuneration — the act of remunerating.
- resubmission — Law. an agreement between parties involved in a dispute, to abide by the decision of an arbitrator or arbitrators.