12-letter words containing n, u, s
- hurtlessness — harmlessness; innocence
- hydronautics — (nautical) The science of the design and construction of ships, their engines, and their instrumentation.
- hypersensual — extremely or excessively sensual
- hypognathous — having the lower jaw or mandible longer than the upper.
- ibm discount — A price increase. Outside IBM, this derives from the common perception that IBM products are generally overpriced (see clone); inside, it is said to spring from a belief that large numbers of IBM employees living in an area cause prices to rise.
- ignis fatuus — Also called friar's lantern, will-o'-the-wisp. a flitting phosphorescent light seen at night, chiefly over marshy ground, and believed to be due to spontaneous combustion of gas from decomposed organic matter.
- Îles du vent — a group of islands in the S Pacific, in French Polynesia in the W Society Archipelago: Moorea, Maio (Tubuai Manu), and Mehetia and Tetiaroa. Pop: 184 222 (2002)
- illuminators — Plural form of illuminator.
- illusionable — Liable to illusion.
- illusionists — Plural form of illusionist.
- illusiveness — illusory.
- illusoriness — causing illusion; deceptive; misleading.
- illustrating — Present participle of illustrate.
- illustration — something that illustrates, as a picture in a book or magazine.
- immatureness — not mature, ripe, developed, perfected, etc.
- immensurable — immeasurable.
- immune serum — a serum containing naturally or artificially produced antibodies to a given antigen, obtained from human or animal sources.
- immunisation — (British, immunology) alternative spelling of immunization.
- immunologist — the branch of science dealing with the components of the immune system, immunity from disease, the immune response, and immunologic techniques of analysis.
- impetiginous — a contagious skin disease, especially of children, usually caused by streptococcal bacteria, marked by a superficial pustular eruption, particularly on the face.
- impoundments — Plural form of impoundment.
- imprest fund — a fund of petty cash.
- impudentness — Quality of being impudent.
- in a measure — to an extent
- in course of — in the process of
- in our midst — among us
- in spadefuls — in an extreme or emphatic way
- in statu quo — in the state in which (anything was or is).
- in substance — that of which a thing consists; physical matter or material: form and substance.
- in the dumps — a depressed state of mind (usually preceded by in the): to be in the dumps over money problems.
- inaccuracies — Plural form of inaccuracy.
- inadequacies — Plural form of inadequacy.
- inauspicious — not auspicious; boding ill; ill-omened; unfavorable.
- incapsulated — Simple past tense and past participle of incapsulate.
- incapsulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of incapsulate.
- incautiously — In an incautious manner; with a lack of caution.
- incestuously — involving incest.
- inclusionary — (of zoning, housing programs, etc.) stipulating that a certain percentage of new housing will be priced within the reach of middle-income buyers or renters.
- inclusionist — (Wiktionary and WMF jargon) Describing a wiki user who tends to favor the inclusion of questionable articles.
- inclusive of — including; taking into account
- inclusive or — the connective that gives the value true to a disjunction if either or both of the disjuncts are true
- incommodious — inconvenient, as not affording sufficient space or room; uncomfortable: incommodious hotel accommodations.
- inconcinnous — incongruous, not concinnous, inharmonious, discordant
- inconclusion — Lack of conclusion.
- inconclusive — not conclusive; not resolving fully all doubts or questions: inconclusive evidence.
- inconsequent — characterized by lack of proper sequence in thought, speech, or action.
- inconsumable — not consumable; incapable of being consumed.
- incontiguous — not continuous; unconnected; discrete
- incrustation — an incrusting or being incrusted.
- incumbencies — Plural form of incumbency.