12-letter words containing n, u
- advantageous — If something is advantageous to you, it is likely to benefit you.
- adventitious — added or appearing accidentally or unexpectedly
- adventureful — an exciting or very unusual experience.
- adventurists — Plural form of adventurist.
- aerial input — a socket for an aerial
- aeronautical — Aeronautical means involving or relating to the design and construction of aeroplanes.
- aeroneurosis — a functional disorder of aeroplane pilots characterized by anxiety and various psychosomatic disturbances, caused by insufficient oxygen at high altitudes and the emotional tension of flying
- affine group — the group of all affine transformations of a finite-dimensional vector space.
- afghan hound — a tall graceful breed of hound with a long silky coat
- afterburners — Plural form of afterburner.
- afterburning — a process in which additional fuel is ignited in the exhaust gases of a jet engine to produce additional thrust
- agency nurse — a nurse employed by an agency, rather than by a hospital
- agglutinable — Able to be agglutinated; that readily undergoes agglutination.
- agglutinated — Simple past tense and past participle of agglutinate.
- agglutinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of agglutinate.
- agglutinogen — an antigen that reacts with or stimulates the formation of a specific agglutinin
- aggrupations — Plural form of aggrupation.
- agony column — In a British newspaper or magazine, the agony column contains letters from readers about their personal problems, and advice on what to do about them.
- agranulocyte — a white blood cell without granules in its cytoplasm
- agribusiness — Agribusiness is the various businesses that produce, sell, and distribute farm products, especially on a large scale.
- agrobusiness — the businesses collectively associated with the production, processing, and distribution of agricultural products.
- agroindustry — an activity combining agriculture and industry
- alalcomeneus — the first man: he reared Athena and reconciled Zeus and Hera.
- alan shugart — Alan F. Shugart
- albumenizing — Present participle of albumenize.
- albuminoidal — (chemistry) Of the nature of an albuminoid.
- alcaptonuria — Alternative spelling of alkaptonuria.
- aldebaranium — (chemistry, obsolete) A rejected name for ytterbium.
- alexandrinus — the Greek uncial codex, dating from the early 5th century a.d., originally containing the complete text of the Greek Old and New Testaments.
- aliasing bug — stale pointer bug
- alieni juris — under the control of another, as a lunatic or infant.
- alkaptonuria — excessive excretion of homogentisic acid in the urine, caused by a hereditary abnormality of the metabolism of tyrosine and phenylalanine.
- alluringness — The state or quality of being alluring.
- allusiveness — having reference to something implied or inferred; containing, abounding in, or characterized by allusions.
- alluvial fan — a fan-shaped accumulation of silt, sand, gravel, and boulders deposited by fast-flowing mountain rivers when they reach flatter land
- alphanumeric — (of a character set, code, or file of data) consisting of alphabetical and numerical symbols
- altiloquence — Pompous language; lofty speech.
- altitudinous — pertaining to altitude or height
- ambartsumian — Viktor A(mazaspovich). 1908–96, Armenian astrophysicist, renowned for his description of radio sources as explosions in the core of galaxies
- ambulanceman — An ambulanceman is a man who drives an ambulance or takes care of people in an ambulance on the way to hospital.
- amentiferous — bearing aments
- amfebutamone — (former name) The drug bupropion.
- aminobutyric — (organic chemistry) Of or pertaining to any of several isomeric univalent radicals in which a hydrogen atom of a butyric radical is replaced by an amino group.
- ammonium ion — the ion NH4+, formed from ammonia and present in aqueous solutions of ammonia and in many salts
- amourousness — Rare spelling of amorousness.
- amphiregulin — (protein) A particular autocrine growth factor.
- amundsen sea — a part of the South Pacific Ocean, in Antarctica off Byrd Land
- anacolouthon — Alternative spelling of anacoluthon (A break in sequence, that occurs when the scheme of a sentence is changed in its course. Incoherence in a sentence.).
- anacrogynous — having the female sex organs arising from any cell below the apex of the stem, thereby not terminating its growth, as certain liverworts.
- anastasius i — a.d. c430–518, emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire 491–518.