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12-letter words containing n, u, o, c

  • nonproducing — that does not produce
  • nonrecurrent — not recurrent.
  • nonrecurring — not occurring or happening again, especially often or periodically.
  • nonscheduled — not scheduled; not entered on or having a schedule; unscheduled: nonscheduled activities.
  • nonvehicular — Not vehicular.
  • normal curve — a bell-shaped curve showing a particular distribution of probability over the values of a random variable. Also called Gaussian curve, probability curve.
  • not counting — excluding
  • not much cop — If you say that something is not much cop, you mean that it is not very good, and is disappointing.
  • nothing much — not a lot
  • noun adjunct — a noun that occurs before and modifies another noun, as toy in toy store or tour in tour group.
  • nuclear bomb — atomic explosive
  • nucleocapsid — the nucleic acid core and surrounding capsid of a virus; the basic viral structure.
  • nucleophiles — Plural form of nucleophile.
  • nucleophilic — of or relating to electron contribution in covalent bonding (opposed to electrophilic).
  • 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
  • nullipotence — Quality of being nullipotent.
  • obfuscations — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
  • obmutescence — persistent silence
  • obscurantism — opposition to the increase and spread of knowledge.
  • obscurantist — opposition to the increase and spread of knowledge.
  • obscurations — Plural form of obscuration.
  • obstructions — Plural form of obstruction.
  • occupational — of or relating to an occupation, trade, or calling: occupational guidance.
  • of substance — wealthy
  • offscourings — Often, offscourings. something scoured off; filth; refuse.
  • 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.
  • on suspicion — as a suspect
  • on the couch — undergoing psychoanalysis
  • oncornavirus — any of various RNA viruses that cause tumors in humans and other animals.
  • open account — current account (def 1).
  • open circuit — a discontinuous circuit through which no current can flow.
  • 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.
  • opendocument — (file format, standard)   (ODF, ISO/IEC 26300, OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications) An XML file format for office documents, such as spreadsheets, charts, presentations, databases and word processing. OpenDocument was developed by the Open Office XML technical committee of the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) consortium. It is based on the XML format originally created and implemented by the OpenOffice.org office suite. OpenDocument is an open standard, i.e. freely available and implementable. Compare OOXML.
  • oracularness — the state of being oracular
  • orange juice — fruit drink: nectar of orange
  • ortho-cousin — parallel cousin.
  • orthocousins — the children of two brothers or two sisters
  • osco-umbrian — a group of languages, usually classified as Italic, that contains Oscan and Umbrian.
  • otacousticon — (now rare) An instrument to aid hearing, such as an ear trumpet or hearing aid.
  • out to lunch — a light midday meal between breakfast and dinner; luncheon.
  • outbalancing — Present participle of outbalance.
  • outcompeting — to strive to outdo another for acknowledgment, a prize, supremacy, profit, etc.; engage in a contest; vie: to compete in a race; to compete in business.
  • outcroppings — Plural form of outcropping.
  • outdistanced — Simple past tense and past participle of outdistance.
  • outdistances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outdistance.
  • 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.
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