12-letter words containing o, c, u
- angiocarpous — being or having fruit contained in a vessel such as a shell
- animalculous — a minute or microscopic animal, nearly or quite invisible to the naked eye, as an infusorian or rotifer.
- announceable — to make known publicly or officially; proclaim; give notice of: to announce a special sale.
- announcement — An announcement is a statement made to the public or to the media which gives information about something that has happened or that will happen.
- annunciation — In Christianity, the Annunciation was the announcement by the Archangel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary that she was going to give birth to the son of God.
- annunciators — Plural form of annunciator.
- annunciatory — to announce.
- anthocarpous — resembling or pertaining to an anthocarp
- anticonsumer — opposed to consumerism
- antinucleons — Plural form of antinucleon.
- antiochus iv — ?215–164 bc, Seleucid king of Syria (175–164), who attacked the Jews and provoked the revolt of the Maccabees
- apocynaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Apocynaceae, a family of mostly tropical flowering plants with latex in their stems, including the dogbane, periwinkle, oleander, and some lianas
- appeal court — An appeal court is the same as a Court of Appeal.
- arch support — a rigid support placed inside a shoe so that its molded form fits the arch of the foot and relieves strain on the muscles of the foot while walking, standing, etc.
- archesporium — archespore.
- archosaurian — belonging to or characteristic of the archosaurs
- argillaceous — (of sedimentary rocks and deposits) composed of very fine-grained material, such as clay, shale, etc
- armoured car — a fast lightly armed and armoured vehicle, mainly used for reconnaissance
- army cutworm — the larva of a noctuid moth, Chorizagrotis auxiliaris, that is a pest of wheat and alfalfa in the Plains states.
- articulation — Articulation is the action of producing a sound or word clearly, in speech or music.
- articulators — Plural form of articulator.
- articulatory — an act or the process of articulating: the articulation of a form; the articulation of a new thought.
- arts council — an organization that provides funding for a variety of arts activities
- ascomycetous — belonging or pertaining to the Ascomycota.
- ash-coloured — silver-grey in colour
- assuefaction — the condition of being or becoming familiar with or used to something
- astronautics — the science and technology of space flight
- asynchronous — An asynchronous electric machine is one in which the magnetic field and the rotation are not exactly the same.
- au contraire — on the contrary
- auction room — a room in a building where auctions take place
- auction sale — an instance of items being sold by auction
- auction site — a commercial website on which items are sold by internet auction
- auctioneered — Simple past tense and past participle of auctioneer.
- audiological — Of, or pertaining to, audiology, or the study of hearing.
- auscultation — the diagnostic technique in medicine of listening to the various internal sounds made by the body, usually with the aid of a stethoscope
- auspiciously — promising success; propitious; opportune; favorable: an auspicious occasion.
- autocatalyse — to cause an internal, self-produced, chemical reaction
- autocatalyze — To cause, or to undergo autocatalysis.
- autochangers — Plural form of autochanger.
- autochthonal — Existing where it was formed or born; native, aboriginal, indigenous.
- autochthones — Alternative spelling of autochthons.
- autochthonic — pertaining to autochthons; aboriginal; indigenous (opposed to heterochthonous).
- autocomplete — a feature of a word processor, email program, web browser, etc., that automatically predicts the remaining characters in a word or phrase based on what has been typed or input before: If you supply the information, your browser will be able to use autocomplete to fill out online forms.
- autocratical — Autocratic.
- autocritique — the examination of factors guiding one's thoughts, beliefs and actions; self-criticism
- autodestruct — likely to or possessing the power to destroy or obliterate itself or its possessor
- autodidactic — a person who has learned a subject without the benefit of a teacher or formal education; a self-taught person.
- autoeciously — in an autoecious manner
- autoexec.bat — (operating system) The batch file containing commands, loaded by MS-DOS after running CONFIG.SYS. AUTOEXEC.BAT contains normal DOS commands and can be used for additional system configuration such as setting paths and variables, configuring network connections and running application programs.
- autohypnotic — Of or pertaining to autohypnosis; self-hypnotizing.