11-letter words containing l, u, c, e, n
- granduncles — Plural form of granduncle.
- granulocyte — a circulating white blood cell having prominent granules in the cytoplasm and a nucleus of two or more lobes.
- great-uncle — a granduncle.
- gun culture — the attitudes, feelings, values, and behaviour of a society, or any social group, in which guns are used
- gun licence — an official document granting a person permission to own and use a gun, usually subject to various restrictions
- hallucinate — to have hallucinations.
- herculaneum — an ancient city in SW Italy, on the Bay of Naples: buried along with Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in a.d. 79; partially excavated.
- hibernacula — Plural form of hibernaculum.
- homonuclear — a homonuclear molecule is composed of atoms of the same element or isotope and all of its nuclei are alike
- honeylocust — any of a genus (Gleditsia) of trees of the caesalpinia family, esp. a North American species (G. triacanthos) usually having strong, thorny branches, featherlike foliage, and large, twisted pods containing beanlike seeds and a sweet pulp
- honeysuckle — any upright or climbing shrub of the genus Diervilla, especially D. lonicera, cultivated for its fragrant white, yellow, or red tubular flowers.
- horn clause — (logic) A set of atomic literals with at most one positive literal. Usually written L <- L1, ..., Ln or <- L1, ..., Ln where n>=0, "<-" means "is implied by" and comma stands for conjuction ("AND"). If L is false the clause is regarded as a goal. Horn clauses can express a subset of statements of first order logic. The name "Horn Clause" comes from the logician Alfred Horn, who first pointed out the significance of such clauses in 1951, in the article "On sentences which are true of direct unions of algebras", Journal of Symbolic Logic, 16, 14-21. A definite clause is a Horn clause that has exactly one positive literal.
- house-clean — to clean the inside of a person's house
- illuminance — illumination (def 6).
- in close-up — If you see something in close-up, you see it in great detail in a photograph or piece of film which has been taken very near to the subject.
- in the club — pregnant
- incapsulate — Alternative form of encapsulate.
- include out — to exclude
- include war — Excessive multi-leveled including within a discussion thread, a practice that tends to annoy readers. In a forum with high-traffic newsgroups, such as Usenet, this can lead to flames and the urge to start a kill file.
- inclusively — including or encompassing the stated limit or extremes in consideration or account (usually used postpositively): from 6 to 37 inclusive.
- increaseful — full of increase; fertile; fruitful
- incredulity — the quality or state of being incredulous; inability or unwillingness to believe.
- incredulous — not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical.
- inculcative — to implant by repeated statement or admonition; teach persistently and earnestly (usually followed by upon or in): to inculcate virtue in the young.
- inductively — of, relating to, or involving electrical induction or magnetic induction.
- indulgences — Plural form of indulgence.
- induplicate — folded or rolled inward: said of the parts of the calyx or corolla when the edges are bent abruptly toward the axis, or of leaves in vernation when the edges are rolled inward and then arranged about the axis without overlapping.
- ineffectual — not effectual; without satisfactory or decisive effect: an ineffectual remedy.
- ineluctable — incapable of being evaded; inescapable: an ineluctable destiny. Synonyms: inevitable, unavoidable, irrevocable, unpreventable, unstoppable, inexorable. Antonyms: certain, sure, fated.
- ineluctably — incapable of being evaded; inescapable: an ineluctable destiny. Synonyms: inevitable, unavoidable, irrevocable, unpreventable, unstoppable, inexorable. Antonyms: certain, sure, fated.
- inexcusable — incapable of being excused or justified.
- inexcusably — incapable of being excused or justified.
- influencers — Plural form of influencer.
- influencing — the capacity or power of persons or things to be a compelling force on or produce effects on the actions, behavior, opinions, etc., of others: He used family influence to get the contract.
- inoculative — to implant (a disease agent or antigen) in a person, animal, or plant to produce a disease for study or to stimulate disease resistance.
- inosculated — Simple past tense and past participle of inosculate.
- inosculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inosculate.
- inscrutable — incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable.
- insculpture — an inscription or carving
- intercouple — two of the same sort considered together; pair.
- intercrural — of or relating to the leg or the hind limb.
- intercupola — the space between an inner and an outer dome.
- interocular — being, or situated, between the eyes.
- involucrate — having an involucre.
- isoleucines — Plural form of isoleucine.
- judge lynch — the personification of lynch law.
- jungle cock — the male of the jungle fowl.
- kennel club — an association of dog breeders, usually concerned only with certain breeds of dogs.
- knuckleball — a slow pitch that moves erratically toward home plate, usually delivered by holding the ball between the thumb and the knuckles of the first joints of the first two or three fingers.
- knucklebone — (in humans) any of the bones forming a knuckle of a finger.