12-letter words containing n, u, e, a, t, o
- bayonet bulb — an electric light bulb which is inserted into the socket against spring pressure and turned so that pins on its side engage in slots in the socket
- bean counter — You can describe people such as accountants and business managers as bean counters if you disapprove of them because you think they are only interested in money.
- bean sprouts — the sprouts of newly germinated mung beans, eaten as a vegetable, esp in Chinese dishes
- beardtongues — Plural form of beardtongue.
- beat up (on) — to give a beating to; thrash
- beaumontague — a cement-like substance used to fill in and hide cracks and holes in woodwork and metalwork
- beauty salon — A beauty salon is the same as a beauty parlour.
- black tongue — canine pellagra.
- boulangerite — a bluish lead-gray mineral, lead antimony sulfide, Pb 5 Sb 4 S 11 , a minor ore of lead.
- burnt orange — of a dark orange colour, sometimes due to calcination of orange pigment
- 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.
- cantankerous — Someone who is cantankerous is always finding things to argue or complain about.
- captiousness — The state of being captious.
- 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.
- cater-cousin — a close friend
- cautiousness — showing, using, or characterized by caution: a cautious man; To be cautious is often to show wisdom.
- centuriation — the process or act of dividing land into centuries or equal areas undertaken by the Romans
- cheluviation — the leaching of chelates through soil
- chestnut oak — any of several North American oaks, as Quercus prinus, having serrate or dentate leaves resembling those of the chestnut.
- chincoteague — a town on a small island in a lagoon (Chincoteague Bay) in E Virginia: annual wild pony roundup.
- chukot range — mountain range in NE Siberia: highest peak, c. 7,500 ft (2,286 m)
- claude monet — Claude [klawd;; French klohd] /klɔd;; French kloʊd/ (Show IPA), 1840–1926, French painter.
- cocaine bust — an arrest for the possession of cocaine
- commensurate — If the level of one thing is commensurate with another, the first level is in proportion to the second.
- communicated — to impart knowledge of; make known: to communicate information; to communicate one's happiness.
- communicatee — a person to whom a communicator communicates
- communicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of communicate.
- conceptually — pertaining to concepts or to the forming of concepts.
- conductances — Plural form of conductance.
- conduplicate — folded lengthways on itself
- confabulated — Simple past tense and past participle of confabulate.
- configurated — to give a configuration, form, or design to.
- confusticate — Slang. to confuse or perplex; bewilder.
- conglobulate — to form into a globe or ball
- conglutinate — to cause (the edges of a wound or fracture) to join during the process of healing or (of the edges of a wound or fracture) to join during this process
- congratulate — If you congratulate someone, you say something to show you are pleased that something nice has happened to them.
- congruential — (mathematics) That uses congruency (division by a modulus).
- conjunctivae — the mucous membrane that lines the exposed portion of the eyeball and inner surface of the eyelids.
- consultative — A consultative committee or document gives advice or makes proposals about a particular problem or subject.
- consummately — to bring to a state of perfection; fulfill.
- consummative — to bring to a state of perfection; fulfill.
- containerful — As much as a container can hold.
- contextually — of, relating to, or depending on the context.
- continuances — Plural form of continuance.
- continuative — serving or tending to continue
- contractured — a shortening or distortion of muscular or connective tissue due to spasm, scar, or paralysis of the antagonist of the contracting muscle.
- contractures — Plural form of contracture.
- contrasexual — (of a woman) appearing to defy the female sexual stereotype by being content to be single and childless while being sexually active and financially independent
- contriturate — to triturate completely
- countenanced — appearance, especially the look or expression of the face: a sad countenance.