11-letter words containing n, u
- adjudgement — the act of adjudging
- adjustments — Plural form of adjustment.
- admeasuring — Present participle of admeasure.
- adminicular — giving help; auxiliary, corroborative
- adsuki bean — adzuki bean
- adulterants — Plural form of adulterant.
- adultescent — an adult who is still actively interested in youth culture
- adumbrating — Present participle of adumbrate.
- adumbration — to produce a faint image or resemblance of; to outline or sketch.
- adventurers — Plural form of adventurer.
- adventuress — a woman who seeks adventure, esp one who seeks success or money through daring exploits
- adventuring — the act of doing adventurous things or having adventures
- adventurism — Adventurism is a willingness to take risks, especially in order to obtain an unfair advantage in politics or business.
- adventurist — If you describe someone or something as adventurist, you disapprove of them because they are willing to take risks in order to gain an unfair advantage in business or politics.
- adventurous — Someone who is adventurous is willing to take risks and to try new methods. Something that is adventurous involves new things or ideas.
- adzuki bean — the brown edible seed of a leguminous plant, Phaseolus angularis,, widely eaten in China and Japan
- aequo animo — with an even mind; with composure.
- aeronautics — Aeronautics is the science of designing and building aeroplanes.
- aesculapian — of or relating to Aesculapius or to the art of medicine
- affluential — an affluent person who does not display his or her wealth in the form of material possessions
- after-lunch — occurring after a midday meal
- afterburner — a device in the exhaust system of an internal-combustion engine for removing or rendering harmless potentially dangerous components in the exhaust gases
- agglutinant — sticking together; adhesive
- agglutinate — to adhere or cause to adhere, as with glue
- agglutinins — Plural form of agglutinin.
- aggrupation — (Philippines) A group, an organization.
- agony uncle — a man who writes the replies to readers' letters in an agony column
- agranulosis — (rare) agranulocytosis.
- aguardiente — any inferior brandy or similar spirit, esp from Spain, Portugal, or South America
- ahuna varya — the best-known and most frequently recited prayer: equivalent to the Lord's Prayer for Christians.
- ailanthuses — Plural form of ailanthus.
- air current — a mass of air moving from one area to another
- air curtain — an air stream across a doorway to exclude draughts, etc
- air cushion — an inflatable cushion, usually made of rubber or plastic
- air surfing — surfing that involves aerial stunts
- air turbine — a small turbine driven by compressed air, esp one used as a starter for engines
- airbrushing — Present participle of airbrush.
- alan turing — (person) Alan M. Turing, 1912-06-22/3? - 1954-06-07. A British mathematician, inventor of the Turing Machine. Turing also proposed the Turing test. Turing's work was fundamental in the theoretical foundations of computer science. Turing was a student and fellow of King's College Cambridge and was a graduate student at Princeton University from 1936 to 1938. While at Princeton Turing published "On Computable Numbers", a paper in which he conceived an abstract machine, now called a Turing Machine. Turing returned to England in 1938 and during World War II, he worked in the British Foreign Office. He masterminded operations at Bletchley Park, UK which were highly successful in cracking the Nazis "Enigma" codes during World War II. Some of his early advances in computer design were inspired by the need to perform many repetitive symbolic manipulations quickly. Before the building of the Colossus computer this work was done by a roomful of women. In 1945 he joined the National Physical Laboratory in London and worked on the design and construction of a large computer, named Automatic Computing Engine (ACE). In 1949 Turing became deputy director of the Computing Laboratory at Manchester where the Manchester Automatic Digital Machine, the worlds largest memory computer, was being built. He also worked on theories of artificial intelligence, and on the application of mathematical theory to biological forms. In 1952 he published the first part of his theoretical study of morphogenesis, the development of pattern and form in living organisms. Turing was gay, and died rather young under mysterious circumstances. He was arrested for violation of British homosexuality statutes in 1952. He died of potassium cyanide poisoning while conducting electrolysis experiments. An inquest concluded that it was self-administered but it is now thought by some to have been an accident. There is an excellent biography of Turing by Andrew Hodges, subtitled "The Enigma of Intelligence" and a play based on it called "Breaking the Code". There was also a popular summary of his work in Douglas Hofstadter's book "Gödel, Escher, Bach".
- albategnius — Latin name of Battani.
- albugineous — related to or resembling the white of an egg
- albumenized — Simple past tense and past participle of albumenize.
- albuminemia — (pathology) The (normal) presence of albumin in the blood.
- albuminized — Simple past tense and past participle of albuminize.
- albuminoids — any of a class of simple proteins, as keratin, gelatin, or collagen, that are insoluble in all neutral solvents; scleroprotein.
- albuminuria — the presence of albumin in the urine
- albuminuric — related to the state of albuminuria
- aleggeaunce — the alleviation of grief or a burden
- aleuromancy — (in ancient times) the use of flour as a means of divination.
- alfred lunt — Alfred, 1893–1977, U.S. actor (husband of Lynn Fontanne).
- all ends up — totally or completely