12-letter words containing n, u, c, l, e, o
- electrotonus — the change in the state of irritability and conductivity of a nerve or muscle caused by the passage of an electric current
- elocutionary — Of or pertaining to elocution or to public speaking; rhetorical.
- elocutionist — Someone who practices or teaches elocution.
- elucidations — Plural form of elucidation.
- elucubration — the practice of elucubrating
- emasculation — The act of depriving of virility, or the state of being so deprived; castration.
- endonuclease — An enzyme that cleaves a polynucleotide chain by separating nucleotides other than the two end ones.
- endovascular — Within a blood vessel.
- equinoctials — Plural form of equinoctial.
- equipollence — The condition of being equipollent; equality of power, force, signification, or application.
- euphonically — In a euphonic manner.
- exclusionary — restrictive or elitist
- exclusionism — The quality of being exclusionist.
- exclusionist — Acting to shut out or bar someone from a place, group, or privilege.
- exonucleases — Plural form of exonuclease.
- exulceration — the process of ulceration
- fluoresceine — Alternative spelling of fluorescein.
- fluorescence — the emission of radiation, especially of visible light, by a substance during exposure to external radiation, as light or x-rays. Compare phosphorescence (def 1).
- fluorescents — Plural form of fluorescent.
- forcefulness — full of force; powerful; vigorous; effective: a forceful plea for peace.
- fortruncible — A cross between Fortran and RUNCIBLE for the IBM 650. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
- four-channel — Audio. quadraphonic.
- functionable — functional (def 3).
- functionless — Lacking a function.
- funnel cloud — a rapidly rotating funnel-shaped cloud extending downward from the base of a cumulonimbus cloud, which, if it touches the surface of the earth, is a tornado or waterspout.
- gallinaceous — pertaining to or resembling the domestic fowls.
- geniculation — the state of being geniculate.
- genuflection — an act of bending the knee or touching it to the ground in reverence or worship.
- glaucousness — Quality of being glaucous.
- glucogenesis — the production of glucose by the decomposition of glycogen or from any nonglucose precursor.
- glucoprotein — glycoprotein.
- grand coulee — a dry canyon in central Washington: cut by the Columbia River in the glacial period. 52 miles (84 km) long; over 400 feet (120 meters) deep.
- granulocytes — Plural form of granulocyte.
- ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
- hallucinogen — a substance that produces hallucinations.
- holopneustic — having all the spiracles open, as the tracheal systems of most insects.
- honey locust — a thorny North American tree, Gleditsia triacanthos, of the legume family, having small, compound leaves and pods with a sweet pulp.
- honeysuckles — Plural form of honeysuckle.
- housecleaner — Someone employed to clean a house.
- incestuously — involving incest.
- 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
- incoagulable — of a nature that cannot be coagulated
- incommutable — not exchangeable.
- incomputable — incapable of being computed; incalculable.
- inconclusive — not conclusive; not resolving fully all doubts or questions: inconclusive evidence.
- inconfutable — (obsolete) Not confutable.
- inconsumable — not consumable; incapable of being consumed.
- indecorously — not decorous; violating generally accepted standards of good taste or propriety; unseemly.
- infectiously — communicable by infection, as from one person to another or from one part of the body to another: infectious diseases.