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11-letter words containing n, u, c

  • gun culture — the attitudes, feelings, values, and behaviour of a society, or any social group, in which guns are used
  • gun licence — an official document granting a person permission to own and use a gun, usually subject to various restrictions
  • gunn effect — the onset of microwave oscillations in a thin slice of a semiconductor when a voltage exceeding a given value is applied across the slice.
  • hack around — to cut, notch, slice, chop, or sever (something) with or as with heavy, irregular blows (often followed by up or down): to hack meat; to hack down trees.
  • hacking run — (jargon)   (Analogy with "bombing run" or "speed run") A hack session extended long outside normal working times, especially one longer than 12 hours. May cause you to "change phase the hard way".
  • haircutting — an act or instance of cutting the hair.
  • hallucinant — a person who experiences hallucinations
  • hallucinate — to have hallucinations.
  • handcuffing — Present participle of handcuff.
  • hard launch — the general or official launch, esp of a website, after which all features, products, and services are understood to be available
  • hardecanute — 1019?–42, king of Denmark 1035–42, king of England 1040–42 (son of Canute).
  • hardicanute — 1019?–42, king of Denmark 1035–42, king of England 1040–42 (son of Canute).
  • harnoncourt — Nikolaus. 1929–2016, Austrian conductor and cellist, noted for his performances using period instruments
  • haunch bone — the ilium or hipbone.
  • haunch-bone — the ilium or hipbone.
  • herculaneum — an ancient city in SW Italy, on the Bay of Naples: buried along with Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in a.d. 79; partially excavated.
  • hermeneutic — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
  • hibernacula — Plural form of hibernaculum.
  • hiccoughing — Present participle of hiccough.
  • homonuclear — a homonuclear molecule is composed of atoms of the same element or isotope and all of its nuclei are alike
  • honeylocust — any of a genus (Gleditsia) of trees of the caesalpinia family, esp. a North American species (G. triacanthos) usually having strong, thorny branches, featherlike foliage, and large, twisted pods containing beanlike seeds and a sweet pulp
  • honeysucker — a bird that feeds on the nectar of flowers.
  • honeysuckle — any upright or climbing shrub of the genus Diervilla, especially D. lonicera, cultivated for its fragrant white, yellow, or red tubular flowers.
  • horn clause — (logic)   A set of atomic literals with at most one positive literal. Usually written L <- L1, ..., Ln or <- L1, ..., Ln where n>=0, "<-" means "is implied by" and comma stands for conjuction ("AND"). If L is false the clause is regarded as a goal. Horn clauses can express a subset of statements of first order logic. The name "Horn Clause" comes from the logician Alfred Horn, who first pointed out the significance of such clauses in 1951, in the article "On sentences which are true of direct unions of algebras", Journal of Symbolic Logic, 16, 14-21. A definite clause is a Horn clause that has exactly one positive literal.
  • house finch — a small common finch, Carpodacus mexicanus, originally of the western U.S. and Mexico and now widely distributed: the males have a red forehead, throat, breast, and rump.
  • house-clean — to clean the inside of a person's house
  • hsuan chiao — Taoism (def 2).
  • huckstering — Present participle of huckster.
  • hue and cry — Early English Law. the pursuit of a felon or an offender with loud outcries or clamor to give an alarm.
  • humectation — A moistening.
  • humperdinck — Engelbert [eng-uh l-bert;; English eng-guh l-burt] /ˈɛŋ əlˌbɛrt;; English ˈɛŋ gəlˌbɜrt/ (Show IPA), 1854–1921, German composer.
  • hunchbacked — humpbacked.
  • hyponychium — (anatomy) The thickened epithelium beneath a nail or claw.
  • icing sugar — Icing sugar is very fine white sugar that is used for making icing and sweets.
  • icosandrous — belonging to the Icosandria, a class of plants
  • illuminance — illumination (def 6).
  • immunogenic — causing or capable of producing an immune response.
  • immunologic — the branch of science dealing with the components of the immune system, immunity from disease, the immune response, and immunologic techniques of analysis.
  • immunotoxic — of or relating to an immunotoxin
  • impecunious — having little or no money; penniless; poor.
  • importunacy — the quality or condition of being importunate; importunateness.
  • impuissance — Impotence, weakness.
  • in a vacuum — If something is done in a vacuum, it is not affected by any outside influences or information.
  • in close-up — If you see something in close-up, you see it in great detail in a photograph or piece of film which has been taken very near to the subject.
  • in full cry — When someone is in full cry, they are expressing their views very strongly or are very active.
  • in the club — pregnant
  • in-accuracy — something inaccurate; error.
  • in-junction — Law. a judicial process or order requiring the person or persons to whom it is directed to do a particular act or to refrain from doing a particular act.
  • inasmuch as — to the extent that, in that
  • inauthentic — not authentic: inauthentic Indian jewelry mass-produced in a factory.
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