12-letter words containing n, u, l
- nucleosidase — any of the class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of nucleosides.
- nucleotidase — a biochemical catalyst that facilitates the process of hydrolyzing or splitting a nucleotide and turning it into a phosphate and a nucleoside
- nuevo laredo — a city in NE Mexico, on the Rio Grande opposite Laredo, Texas.
- nulligravida — A female who has never been pregnant.
- nullipotence — Quality of being nullipotent.
- nullity suit — a law suit declaring a marriage to be legally void
- number plate — vehicle's registration panel
- numbers pool — Also called numbers, numbers game, numbers racket. an illegal daily lottery in which money is wagered on the appearance of certain numbers in some statistical listing or tabulation published in a daily newspaper, racing form, etc.
- numerability — the fact of having the ability to be counted
- numerologist — A practitioner of numerology.
- numismatical — Alternative form of numismatic.
- nun's fiddle — trumpet marine.
- nuptial mass — a special mass said at a wedding.
- nutmeg melon — netted melon.
- nutritiously — In a way that provides nutrition; nourishment; food.
- nuxi problem — (data, architecture) /nuk'see pro'bl*m/ The problem of transferring data between computers with differing byte order. The string "Unix" might look like "NUXI" on a machine with a different "byte sex" (e.g. when transferring data from a little-endian to a big-endian, or vice-versa). See also middle-endian, swab, and bytesexual.
- obambulation — (obsolete) Wandering about; a casual outing.
- obnubilation — to cloud over; becloud; obscure.
- obtuse angle — an angle greater than 90° but less than 180°.
- occupational — of or relating to an occupation, trade, or calling: occupational guidance.
- offputtingly — In an offputting manner.
- oil industry — petroleum-processing business
- olap council — (body, standard) A body formed in early 1995 to work on a cross-product API for OLAP. After little success it was replaced by the Analytical Solutions Forum.
- old chestnut — old saying, cliché
- old mine cut — a brilliant cut, common in the 19th century, retaining a relatively high proportion of the original stone and having a large culet and small table compared to modern brilliants.
- old prussian — a Baltic language extinct since the 17th century. Abbreviation: OPruss.
- oleaginously — In an oleaginous manner.
- oleoresinous — pertaining to, characteristic of, or containing oleoresin.
- olympus mons — the highest of the giant shield volcanoes on Mars, lying 18°N of the equator. Height: 26 km; base diameter: over 600 km
- omnibus bill — a bill dealing with, or providing for many different things or cases
- omnivorously — eating both animal and plant foods.
- on all fours — all four limbs or extremities; the four legs or feet of an animal or both arms and both legs or both hands and both feet of a person: The cat rolled off the ledge but landed on all fours.
- open cluster — a comparatively young, irregularly shaped group of stars, often numbering up to several hundred, and held together by mutual gravitation; usually found along the central plane of the Milky Way and other galaxies.
- open couplet — a couplet that concludes with a run-on line.
- oracularness — the state of being oracular
- oriental rug — a rug or carpet woven usually in Asia and characterized by hand-knotted pile.
- original gum — See o.g (def 1).
- orion nebula — a luminous nebula in the constellation Orion, in the center of Orion's sword.
- ornithogalum — any plant of the genus Ornithogalum
- out to lunch — a light midday meal between breakfast and dinner; luncheon.
- out-building — a detached building subordinate to a main building.
- outbalancing — Present participle of outbalance.
- outbuildings — Plural form of outbuilding.
- outer london — the group of London Boroughs that form a ring around the city of London in the UK
- outer planet — any of the four planets with orbits outside the orbit of Mars, namely, the planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
- outgeneraled — Simple past tense and past participle of outgeneral.
- outlandishly — In an outlandish manner.
- outlet point — an opening (on a pipe, etc) permitting escape or release (of liquid, etc)
- outline font — (text) (Or "vector font") A font defined as a set of lines and curves as opposed to a bitmap font. An outline font (e.g. PostScript, TrueType, RISC OS) can be scaled to any size and otherwise transformed more easily than a bitmap font, and with more attractive results, though this requires a lot of numerical processing. The result of transforming a character in an outline font in a particular way is often saved as a bitmap in a font cache to avoid repeating the calculations if that character is to be drawn again.
- outplacement — counseling and assistance in finding a new job, provided by a company for an employee who has been or is about to be dismissed.