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12-letter words containing n, d, o, u

  • bud mutation — a variation produced by a genetic alteration in the bud such that the seeds produced by the resulting growth perpetuate the change in succeeding generations.
  • bullet wound — a wound made by a bullet
  • buoyancy aid — a type of usually foam-filled lifejacket designed for use in sports such as canoeing
  • burial mound — a barrow
  • burnt almond — a sweet consisting of an almond enclosed in burnt sugar
  • buying order — an order to buy a certain security
  • cadent house — any of the four houses that precede the angles: the third, sixth, ninth, and twelfth houses, which correspond, respectively, to neighborhood and relatives, work and health, philosophy and foreign travel, and secret matters and service to others.
  • card counter — a casino player who memorizes or records which cards have been played in previous hands in order to calculate the odds on receiving winning cards or combinations from those remaining to be dealt, the practice often being held as illegal.
  • change round — to place in or adopt a different or opposite position
  • changearound — the act of changing to a different position
  • ciment fondu — a type of quick-hardening refractory cement having a high alumina content
  • claude monet — Claude [klawd;; French klohd] /klɔd;; French kloʊd/ (Show IPA), 1840–1926, French painter.
  • claudication — limping; lameness
  • clerodendrum — any of numerous tropical trees or shrubs of the genus Clerodendrum, having clusters of variously colored flowers.
  • closed union — a labor union in which admission of new members is restricted by rigid requirements.
  • cloud banner — banner cloud.
  • 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.
  • column dress — a very straight, close-fitting dress.
  • columnarized — columnar (def 3).
  • come unglued — If something comes unglued, it becomes separated from the thing that it was attached to.
  • comes around — to approach or move toward a particular person or place: Come here. Don't come any closer!
  • communicated — to impart knowledge of; make known: to communicate information; to communicate one's happiness.
  • compound eye — the convex eye of insects and some crustaceans, consisting of numerous separate light-sensitive units (ommatidia)
  • compound key — (database)   (Or "multi-part key", "concatenated key") A key which consists of more than one attribute of the body of information (e.g. database "record") it identifies.
  • compoundable — That can be compounded.
  • compte rendu — a short review or notice, esp of a book
  • condominiums — Plural form of condominium.
  • conduct mark — (in school) a mark for behaviour
  • conductances — Plural form of conductance.
  • conductively — In a conductive manner.
  • conductivity — the property of transmitting heat, electricity, or sound
  • conductorial — relating to a conductor
  • conduplicate — folded lengthways on itself
  • confabulated — Simple past tense and past participle of confabulate.
  • configurated — to give a configuration, form, or design to.
  • confoundedly — bewildered; confused; perplexed.
  • confoundment — The state of being confounded.
  • confusedness — The state or quality of being confused.
  • conquistador — The conquistadors were the sixteenth-century Spanish conquerors of Central and South America.
  • consanguined — Of kindred blood; related.
  • consequenced — Simple past tense and past participle of consequence.
  • consumerized — to make (goods or a product) suitable or available for mass consumption: to consumerize computers by making them cheaper.
  • contractured — a shortening or distortion of muscular or connective tissue due to spasm, scar, or paralysis of the antagonist of the contracting muscle.
  • convolutedly — twisted; coiled.
  • coproduction — to produce (a motion picture, play, etc.) in collaboration with others.
  • countenanced — appearance, especially the look or expression of the face: a sad countenance.
  • counter hand — a person who works behind a counter; assistant
  • counter word — any word freely used as a general term of approval or disapproval without reference to its more exact meaning, as nice, terrible, lousy, terrific
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