12-letter words containing n, u, l, i
- churlishness — The state of being churlish.
- cip language — language> (CIP-L, Computer-aided Intuition-guided Programming Language) A wide-spectrum language for incremental program transformation. There are ALGOL- and Pascal-like variants.
- circularness — The state or quality of being circular.
- circulations — Plural form of circulation.
- circumfluent — flowing around; surrounding; encompassing
- cirl bunting — a European passerine bird Emberiza cirlus, of the bunting family Emberizidae
- city council — a municipal body having legislative and administrative powers, such as passing ordinances and appropriating funds.
- civil unrest — Civil unrest is fighting between different groups of people living in the same country, and losses caused by this fighting are usually not covered by insurance.
- clairaudient — the power to hear sounds said to exist beyond the reach of ordinary experience or capacity, as the voices of the dead.
- claudication — limping; lameness
- claustration — the act of confining to a small space (usually a cloister)
- clearcutting — the act of felling all trees in area
- cliquishness — The state of being cliquish.
- closed union — a labor union in which admission of new members is restricted by rigid requirements.
- cluster pine — a pine tree, Pinus pinaster, having long thick needles and large clustered cones, native to the Mediterranean coastal regions.
- coal-burning — fuelled by burning coal
- coconut milk — Coconut milk is the milky juice inside coconuts.
- colliquation — liquefaction
- colluctation — a struggle or conflict
- 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.
- colourations — Plural form of colouration.
- column shift — A column shift is a gearshift lever mounted on the steering column.
- columnarized — columnar (def 3).
- columniation — the arrangement of architectural columns
- communicable — A communicable disease is one that can be passed on to other people.
- communicably — capable of being easily communicated or transmitted: communicable information; a communicable disease.
- conclusional — the end or close; final part.
- conclusively — serving to settle or decide a question; decisive; convincing: conclusive evidence.
- concurringly — In a concurring manner; concurrently.
- conductively — In a conductive manner.
- conductorial — relating to a conductor
- conduplicate — folded lengthways on itself
- configurable — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
- conglutinant — (of the edges of a wound or fracture) promoting union; adhesive
- 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
- congruential — (mathematics) That uses congruency (division by a modulus).
- conjunctival — the mucous membrane that lines the exposed portion of the eyeball and inner surface of the eyelids.
- connubialism — the state of being married
- connubiality — of marriage or wedlock; matrimonial; conjugal: connubial love.
- conqueringly — in a conquering manner
- consultation — A consultation is a meeting which is held to discuss something. Consultation is discussion about something.
- consultative — A consultative committee or document gives advice or makes proposals about a particular problem or subject.
- contagiously — capable of being transmitted by bodily contact with an infected person or object: contagious diseases.
- containerful — As much as a container can hold.
- contiguously — touching; in contact.
- continuality — of regular or frequent recurrence; often repeated; very frequent: continual bus departures.
- continuingly — to go on after suspension or interruption: The program continued after an intermission.
- continuously — uninterrupted in time; without cessation: continuous coughing during the concert.