12-letter words containing n, a, t, u, r
- intramundane — existing or occurring within the material world.
- intramurally — In an intramural manner.
- intranuclear — existing or taking place within a nucleus.
- intraosseous — (medicine) within a bone.
- intrapreneur — an employee of a large corporation who is given freedom and financial support to create new products, services, systems, etc., and does not have to follow the corporation's usual routines or protocols.
- intrauterine — located or occurring within the uterus.
- intraveneous — Misspelling of intravenous.
- invert sugar — a mixture of the dextrorotatory forms of glucose and fructose, formed naturally in fruits and produced artificially in syrups or fondants by treating cane sugar with acids.
- iron curtain — (sometimes initial capital letters) a barrier to understanding and the exchange of information and ideas created by ideological, political, and military hostility of one country toward another, especially such a barrier between the Soviet Union and its allies and other countries.
- iron sulfate — ferrous sulfate.
- isosthenuria — the inability of the kidneys to dilute or concentrate urine
- jaunting car — a light, two-wheeled, one-horse cart, once common in Ireland, having two seats set back to back, with a perch in front for the driver.
- joint author — a person who shares the writing of a book, article, etc, with another
- journalistic — of, relating to, or characteristic of journalists or journalism.
- jumpstarting — Present participle of jumpstart.
- jus naturale — the rules and principles of law derived from the customs and legislation of Rome, as opposed to those derived from the customs of all nations (jus gentium) or from fundamental ideas of right and wrong implicit in the human mind (jus naturale)
- k/t boundary — Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary: the time zone comprising the end of the Cretaceous and the beginning of the Tertiary periods
- keratogenous — producing horn or a horny substance.
- khachaturian — Aram Ilich [ar-uh m il-yich;; Russian uh-rahm ee-lyeech] /ˈær əm ˈɪl yɪtʃ;; Russian ʌˈrɑm iˈlyitʃ/ (Show IPA), 1903–78, Armenian composer.
- 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.
- lake turkana — a long narrow lake in E Africa, in the Great Rift Valley. Area: 7104 sq km (2743 sq miles)
- lark bunting — a finch, Calamospiza melanocorys, of the western U.S., the male of which is black with a large, white patch on each wing.
- laser tuning — a technique for adjusting a laser's output frequency to within a specific range, especially in semiconductors.
- last honours — observances of respect at a funeral
- latin church — the Roman Catholic Church.
- latin square — a square array of numbers, letters, etc., in which each item appears exactly once in each row and column: used in statistical analysis.
- launch party — a party that celebrates the launch of a new magazine, product, etc
- launderettes — Plural form of launderette.
- laundry list — a lengthy, especially random list of items: a laundry list of hoped-for presents; a laundry list of someone's crimes.
- lean mixture — A lean mixture is a fuel/air mixture containing a relatively low proportion of fuel.
- leatherbound — Bound in leather.
- lenticularis — (meteorology) a cloud species which consists of rounded lens shaped of cloud, often forming near mountains. Associated with cirrocumulus, and altocumulus, and sometimes stratocumulus genera.
- lenticularly — in a lenticular manner
- lieutenantry — the post or commission of a lieutenant
- lubrications — Plural form of lubrication.
- lucubrations — Plural form of lucubration.
- malnutrition — lack of proper nutrition; inadequate or unbalanced nutrition.
- manicure set — a set of small tools designed for trimming and caring for the nails
- manipulators — Plural form of manipulator.
- manipulatory — to manage or influence skillfully, especially in an unfair manner: to manipulate people's feelings.
- manslaughter — Law. the unlawful killing of a human being without malice aforethought.
- manufactural — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
- manufactured — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
- manufacturer — a person, group, or company that owns or runs a manufacturing plant.
- manufactures — Plural form of manufacture.
- manuscriptal — (obsolete) Of or pertaining to manuscript.
- mare nostrum — our sea, especially the Mediterranean to the ancient Romans.
- maspar unity — A translator from UNITY to MPL by Martin Huber, University of Karlsruhe, Germany. Version 1.0.
- masturbating — Present participle of masturbate.
- masturbation — the stimulation or manipulation of one's own genitals, especially to orgasm; sexual self-gratification.