12-letter words containing n, o, u, i, s
- housepainter — A professional painter of houses.
- housetrained — Simple past tense and past participle of housetrain.
- housewarming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
- housing list — a list of people waiting to obtain council houses
- hudson river — Henry, died 1611? English navigator and explorer.
- humanisation — Alternative form of humanization.
- humiliations — Plural form of humiliation.
- hunting dogs — the constellation Canes Venatici.
- hydronautics — (nautical) The science of the design and construction of ships, their engines, and their instrumentation.
- ibm discount — A price increase. Outside IBM, this derives from the common perception that IBM products are generally overpriced (see clone); inside, it is said to spring from a belief that large numbers of IBM employees living in an area cause prices to rise.
- illuminators — Plural form of illuminator.
- illusionable — Liable to illusion.
- illusionists — Plural form of illusionist.
- illusoriness — causing illusion; deceptive; misleading.
- illustration — something that illustrates, as a picture in a book or magazine.
- immunisation — (British, immunology) alternative spelling of immunization.
- immunologist — the branch of science dealing with the components of the immune system, immunity from disease, the immune response, and immunologic techniques of analysis.
- impetiginous — a contagious skin disease, especially of children, usually caused by streptococcal bacteria, marked by a superficial pustular eruption, particularly on the face.
- impoundments — Plural form of impoundment.
- in course of — in the process of
- in our midst — among us
- in statu quo — in the state in which (anything was or is).
- inauspicious — not auspicious; boding ill; ill-omened; unfavorable.
- incautiously — In an incautious manner; with a lack of caution.
- incestuously — involving incest.
- inclusionary — (of zoning, housing programs, etc.) stipulating that a certain percentage of new housing will be priced within the reach of middle-income buyers or renters.
- inclusionist — (Wiktionary and WMF jargon) Describing a wiki user who tends to favor the inclusion of questionable articles.
- inclusive of — including; taking into account
- inclusive or — the connective that gives the value true to a disjunction if either or both of the disjuncts are true
- incommodious — inconvenient, as not affording sufficient space or room; uncomfortable: incommodious hotel accommodations.
- inconcinnous — incongruous, not concinnous, inharmonious, discordant
- inconclusion — Lack of conclusion.
- inconclusive — not conclusive; not resolving fully all doubts or questions: inconclusive evidence.
- inconsequent — characterized by lack of proper sequence in thought, speech, or action.
- inconsumable — not consumable; incapable of being consumed.
- incontiguous — not continuous; unconnected; discrete
- incrustation — an incrusting or being incrusted.
- indecorously — not decorous; violating generally accepted standards of good taste or propriety; unseemly.
- indigenously — originating in and characteristic of a particular region or country; native (often followed by to): the plants indigenous to Canada; the indigenous peoples of southern Africa.
- indissoluble — not dissoluble; incapable of being dissolved, decomposed, undone, or destroyed.
- indissolubly — not dissoluble; incapable of being dissolved, decomposed, undone, or destroyed.
- indologenous — producing or causing the production of indole.
- inescutcheon — A small shield placed within a larger one.
- infamousness — The state or quality of being infamous; infamy.
- infatuations — Plural form of infatuation.
- infectiously — communicable by infection, as from one person to another or from one part of the body to another: infectious diseases.
- infelicitous — inapt, inappropriate, or awkward; malapropos: an infelicitous remark.
- ingloriously — In an inglorious manner.
- inharmonious — not harmonious; discordant; unmelodious.
- inimicitious — inimical