12-letter words containing n, a, l, c
- intellectual — appealing to or engaging the intellect: intellectual pursuits.
- interactable — (of an object) able to be interacted with.
- interallelic — occurring between two alleles
- intercalated — to interpolate; interpose.
- intercalates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of intercalate.
- interchannel — occurring or existing between two or more channels
- intercoastal — existing or done between seacoasts; involving two or more seacoasts.
- intercostals — Plural form of intercostal.
- intercranial — of or relating to the cranium or skull.
- interfaculty — an ability, natural or acquired, for a particular kind of action: a faculty for making friends easily.
- interglacial — occurring or formed between times of glacial action.
- interlacings — Plural form of interlacing.
- interlocular — having one or more locules.
- intermercial — interstitial
- internuclear — pertaining to or involving atomic weapons: nuclear war.
- internuncial — serving to announce or connect.
- interspecial — of a distinct or particular kind or character: a special kind of key.
- intervocalic — (usually of a consonant) immediately following a vowel and preceding a vowel, as the v in cover.
- intolerances — Plural form of intolerance.
- intracardial — situated within, or injected into, the heart
- intracranial — being or occurring within the skull.
- intranuclear — existing or taking place within a nucleus.
- intravesical — Within the urinary bladder.
- invercargill — a city on S South Island, in New Zealand.
- invocational — Of or relating to an act of invocation.
- iracundulous — easily angered or irritable
- irda control — (standard) (IrDA-C, formerly IrBUS) Infrared standard from IrDA. IrDA Control is a low speed communication standard that allows cordless peripherals such as keyboards, mice, game pads, and joysticks to interact with intelligent host devices. Host devices include PCs, home appliances, game machines, and television and web set-top boxes. IrDA Control supports data rates of 75 Kbps at up to 8 metres, and is designed to integrate with devices that use USB HID. Parts and products featuring IrDA Control are expected in 1998. See also IrDA Data, AIR.
- ironicalness — The quality of being ironical.
- irrelevances — Plural form of irrelevance.
- isotonically — In an isotonic way.
- itching palm — a grasping nature; avarice
- jackson hole — a valley in NW Wyoming, near the Teton Range: wildlife preserve.
- jacksonville — a seaport in NE Florida, on the St. John's River.
- japan clover — a drought-resistant bush clover, Lespedeza striata, of the legume family, introduced to the southern Atlantic states from Asia, having numerous tiny trifoliate leaves valued for pasturage and hay.
- john mauchly — (person) /jon W mok'*-lee/ (rhymes with "broccoli") Dr. John W. Mauchly, one of the developers of ENIAC.
- journalistic — of, relating to, or characteristic of journalists or journalism.
- juggling act — If you say that a situation is a juggling act, you mean that someone is trying to do two or more things at once, and that they are finding it difficult to do those things properly.
- junior class — the penultimate class in high school or college
- kachina doll — a Hopi Indian doll carved from cottonwood root in representation of a kachina and given as a gift to a child or used as a household decoration.
- kelvin scale — William Thomson, 1st Baron, 1824–1907, English physicist and mathematician.
- ketoconazole — a synthetic substance, C 26 H 28 Cl 2 N 4 O 4 , used to treat a variety of fungal infections.
- kitchen salt — coarse salt that is used in cooking but not at the table
- kleptomaniac — a person who has kleptomania.
- knuckle ball — 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.
- knuckleballs — Plural form of knuckleball.
- knuckleheads — Plural form of knucklehead.
- kona cyclone — a slow-moving cyclone occuring during the winter over the subtropical Pacific Ocean.
- lace-curtain — characteristic of or aspiring to the standards and attributes of the middle class: Her latest novel traces the rise of a lace-curtain Irish family in Boston.
- lachrymation — the secretion of tears, especially in abnormal abundance.
- lactalbumins — Plural form of lactalbumin.