12-letter words containing i, n, d, u
- bloodsucking — any animal that sucks blood, especially a leech.
- boarding out — the local-authority practice of placing a client in a foster family or voluntary establishment and paying for it
- boatbuilding — Boatbuilding is the craft or industry of making boats.
- bodybuilding — Bodybuilding is the activity of doing special exercises regularly in order to make your muscles grow bigger.
- boudin blanc — a boiled sausage made with light-colored meat, as veal or chicken, and without blood
- bring around — If you bring someone around when they are unconscious, you make them become conscious again.
- bud mutation — a variation produced by a genetic alteration in the bud such that the seeds produced by the resulting growth perpetuate the change in succeeding generations.
- buoyancy aid — a type of usually foam-filled lifejacket designed for use in sports such as canoeing
- burial mound — a barrow
- business end — The business end of a tool or weapon is the end of it which does the work or causes damage rather than the end that you hold.
- buying order — an order to buy a certain security
- car industry — the industry concerned with the manufacture and selling of automobiles
- card surfing — a form of cash-card fraud in which one person watches another using a cash dispenser, notes his or her personal identification number, and, after an accomplice has stolen the card, uses the card to withdraw cash
- ciment fondu — a type of quick-hardening refractory cement having a high alumina content
- circumvented — to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
- clairaudient — the power to hear sounds said to exist beyond the reach of ordinary experience or capacity, as the voices of the dead.
- claudication — limping; lameness
- closed union — a labor union in which admission of new members is restricted by rigid requirements.
- coloquintida — colocynth (defs 1, 2).
- colour index — the difference between the apparent magnitude of a star measured in one standard waveband and in a longer standard waveband, indicating its colour and temperature
- colour-blind — Someone who is colour-blind cannot see the difference between colours, especially between red and green.
- columnarized — columnar (def 3).
- communicated — to impart knowledge of; make known: to communicate information; to communicate one's happiness.
- condominiums — Plural form of condominium.
- conductively — In a conductive manner.
- conductivity — the property of transmitting heat, electricity, or sound
- conductorial — relating to a conductor
- conduplicate — folded lengthways on itself
- configurated — to give a configuration, form, or design to.
- conquistador — The conquistadors were the sixteenth-century Spanish conquerors of Central and South America.
- consanguined — Of kindred blood; related.
- consumerized — to make (goods or a product) suitable or available for mass consumption: to consumerize computers by making them cheaper.
- coproduction — to produce (a motion picture, play, etc.) in collaboration with others.
- counter-raid — a sudden assault or attack, as upon something to be seized or suppressed: a police raid on a gambling ring.
- countermined — Simple past tense and past participle of countermine.
- coup de main — an attack that achieves complete surprise
- craniocaudal — (anatomy) From the cranial to the caudal end of a structure.
- credit union — A credit union is a financial institution that offers its members low-interest loans.
- crop dusting — Crop dusting is the spreading of pesticides on crops, usually from an aircraft.
- crop-dusting — the spraying of powdered fungicides or insecticides on crops, usually from an airplane.
- crowdfunding — Crowdfunding is when a large number of people each give an amount of money to pay for a project, especially by using a website to collect the money.
- cum dividend — (of shares, etc) with the right to current dividend
- curanderismo — the use of folk medicine, especially as practiced by a curandero.
- cut and fill — a process of localized gradation whereby material eroded from one place is deposited a short distance away.
- cutting edge — If you are at the cutting edge of a particular field of activity, you are involved in its most important or most exciting developments.
- dance studio — A dance studio is a place where people pay to learn how to dance.
- dandrufflike — Resembling or characteristic of dandruff.
- danube river — a river in central and SE Europe, flowing E from southern Germany to the Black Sea. 1725 miles (2775 km) long.
- darwin tulip — a class of tulips having a tall stem and broad, bright-colored flowers with a flat, rectangular base.
- daughterling — a small daughter