12-letter words containing i, n, u
- circumfluent — flowing around; surrounding; encompassing
- circumfusing — Present participle of circumfuse.
- circumfusion — to pour around; diffuse.
- circumjacent — surrounding; lying around
- circumnutate — to rotate slightly on a central axis
- circumstance — The circumstances of a particular situation are the conditions which affect what happens.
- circumvented — to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
- circumventor — to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
- cirl bunting — a European passerine bird Emberiza cirlus, of the bunting family Emberizidae
- citrangequat — A trigenic hybrid cross of two types of orange and a kumquat.
- city council — a municipal body having legislative and administrative powers, such as passing ordinances and appropriating funds.
- civil unrest — Civil unrest is fighting between different groups of people living in the same country, and losses caused by this fighting are usually not covered by insurance.
- 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
- claustration — the act of confining to a small space (usually a cloister)
- clearcutting — the act of felling all trees in area
- cliquishness — The state of being cliquish.
- closed union — a labor union in which admission of new members is restricted by rigid requirements.
- cluster pine — a pine tree, Pinus pinaster, having long thick needles and large clustered cones, native to the Mediterranean coastal regions.
- co-extrusion — simultaneous extrusion of two or more different yet compatible metals or plastics through the same die.
- coal-burning — fuelled by burning coal
- cocaine bust — an arrest for the possession of cocaine
- coconut milk — Coconut milk is the milky juice inside coconuts.
- colliquation — liquefaction
- colluctation — a struggle or conflict
- 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.
- colourations — Plural form of colouration.
- column shift — A column shift is a gearshift lever mounted on the steering column.
- columnarized — columnar (def 3).
- columniation — the arrangement of architectural columns
- come running — hurry, rush
- communicable — A communicable disease is one that can be passed on to other people.
- communicably — capable of being easily communicated or transmitted: communicable information; a communicable disease.
- communicants — Plural form of communicant.
- communicated — to impart knowledge of; make known: to communicate information; to communicate one's happiness.
- communicatee — a person to whom a communicator communicates
- communicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of communicate.
- communicator — a person who communicates, especially one skilled at conveying information, ideas, or policy to the public.
- communionist — a person with a particular view or interpretation of communion, as specified.
- commutations — Plural form of commutation.
- compunctions — Plural form of compunction.
- compunctious — causing or feeling compunction; regretful.
- compurgation — (formerly) a method of trial whereby a defendant might be acquitted if a sufficient number of persons swore to his innocence
- computations — Plural form of computation.
- comunication — Misspelling of communication.
- conchiferous — (esp of molluscs) having or producing a shell
- concientious — Misspelling of conscientious.
- conclusional — the end or close; final part.