12-letter words containing n, d, o, u
- noun adjunct — a noun that occurs before and modifies another noun, as toy in toy store or tour in tour group.
- nucleocapsid — the nucleic acid core and surrounding capsid of a virus; the basic viral structure.
- nucleosidase — any of the class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of nucleosides.
- nucleotidase — a biochemical catalyst that facilitates the process of hydrolyzing or splitting a nucleotide and turning it into a phosphate and a nucleoside
- nuevo laredo — a city in NE Mexico, on the Rio Grande opposite Laredo, Texas.
- obdurateness — The characteristic of being obdurate; stubbornness.
- oda nobunaga — 1534–82, Japanese general and feudal leader, who unified much of Japan under his control: assassinated
- odd-man rush — an attacking move when the defence is outnumbered by the opposing team
- odd-sounding — sounding or seeming strange or unusual
- odontomatous — relating to an odontoma
- oil industry — petroleum-processing business
- old chestnut — old saying, cliché
- old mine cut — a brilliant cut, common in the 19th century, retaining a relatively high proportion of the original stone and having a large culet and small table compared to modern brilliants.
- old prussian — a Baltic language extinct since the 17th century. Abbreviation: OPruss.
- ombudsperson — ombudsman (def 2).
- on soundings — in waters less than 100 fathoms in depth
- on your mind — If something is on your mind, you are worried or concerned about it and think about it a lot.
- on your side — If something is on your side or if you have it on your side, it helps you when you are trying to achieve something.
- open-mouthed — having the mouth open.
- opendocument — (file format, standard) (ODF, ISO/IEC 26300, OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications) An XML file format for office documents, such as spreadsheets, charts, presentations, databases and word processing. OpenDocument was developed by the Open Office XML technical committee of the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) consortium. It is based on the XML format originally created and implemented by the OpenOffice.org office suite. OpenDocument is an open standard, i.e. freely available and implementable. Compare OOXML.
- order around — be bossy towards
- order number — a number associated with a purchase or merchandise order
- orthodonture — orthodontia (def 2).
- out and away — away from, or not in, the normal or usual place, position, state, etc.: out of alphabetical order; to go out to dinner.
- out of round — not having perfect roundness
- out-building — a detached building subordinate to a main building.
- out-of-round — not perfectly round.
- outbuildings — Plural form of outbuilding.
- outdatedness — the state of being outdated
- outdistanced — Simple past tense and past participle of outdistance.
- outdistances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outdistance.
- outer london — the group of London Boroughs that form a ring around the city of London in the UK
- outgeneraled — Simple past tense and past participle of outgeneral.
- outlandishly — In an outlandish manner.
- outmodedness — The condition of being outmoded.
- outside lane — the lane on a motorway where overtaking of other vehicles is permitted and vehicles can travel fastest
- outside line — an external telephone connection
- outsiderness — The state or condition of being an outsider.
- outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
- outstandings — Outstanding amounts; unpaid debts.
- overabundant — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
- overbuilding — Present participle of overbuild.
- overburdened — Excessively burdened.
- overclouding — Present participle of overcloud.
- overconsumed — Simple past tense and past participle of overconsume.
- overdiscount — to discount excessively
- overdocument — to document excessively
- pandanaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Pandanaceae, an Old World tropical family of monocotyledonous plants including the screw pines
- paradoxurine — relating to the palm civet
- pediculation — the act or process of growing a stalk or pedicle