12-letter words containing o, n, e, u
- chirurgeonly — in the manner of a surgeon
- chukot range — mountain range in NE Siberia: highest peak, c. 7,500 ft (2,286 m)
- churchperson — A person involved with the church; a churchgoer or cleric.
- ciment fondu — a type of quick-hardening refractory cement having a high alumina content
- cinque ports — an association of ports on the SE coast of England, originally consisting of Hastings, Romney, Hythe, Dover, and Sandwich, which from late Anglo-Saxon times provided ships for the king's service in return for the profits of justice in their courts. The Cinque Ports declined with the growth of other ports and surrendered their charters in 1685
- circumventor — to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
- claude monet — Claude [klawd;; French klohd] /klɔd;; French kloʊd/ (Show IPA), 1840–1926, French painter.
- clerodendrum — any of numerous tropical trees or shrubs of the genus Clerodendrum, having clusters of variously colored flowers.
- closed union — a labor union in which admission of new members is restricted by rigid requirements.
- closet queen — a man who is homosexual but does not admit the fact
- cloud banner — banner cloud.
- co-extrusion — simultaneous extrusion of two or more different yet compatible metals or plastics through the same die.
- cocaine bust — an arrest for the possession of cocaine
- cocksureness — The state or condition of being cocksure.
- coconut tree — palm tree: bears coconuts
- colorfulness — the quality of being colourful
- colour index — the difference between the apparent magnitude of a star measured in one standard waveband and in a longer standard waveband, indicating its colour and temperature
- column dress — a very straight, close-fitting dress.
- columnarized — columnar (def 3).
- come running — hurry, rush
- come unglued — If something comes unglued, it becomes separated from the thing that it was attached to.
- come unstuck — If something comes unstuck, it becomes separated from the thing that it was attached to.
- comes around — to approach or move toward a particular person or place: Come here. Don't come any closer!
- comeuppances — Plural form of comeuppance.
- commensurate — If the level of one thing is commensurate with another, the first level is in proportion to the second.
- communicable — A communicable disease is one that can be passed on to other people.
- communicated — to impart knowledge of; make known: to communicate information; to communicate one's happiness.
- communicatee — a person to whom a communicator communicates
- communicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of communicate.
- compound eye — the convex eye of insects and some crustaceans, consisting of numerous separate light-sensitive units (ommatidia)
- compound key — (database) (Or "multi-part key", "concatenated key") A key which consists of more than one attribute of the body of information (e.g. database "record") it identifies.
- compoundable — That can be compounded.
- compte rendu — a short review or notice, esp of a book
- conceptually — pertaining to concepts or to the forming of concepts.
- concertstück — a composition in concerto style but shorter than a full concerto
- conchiferous — (esp of molluscs) having or producing a shell
- concientious — Misspelling of conscientious.
- conclusively — serving to settle or decide a question; decisive; convincing: conclusive evidence.
- concupiscent — lustful or sensual.
- concurrences — Plural form of concurrence.
- concurrent c — 1. (language) An extension of C with rendezvous-based concurrency. Versions for most Unix systems were available commercially from AT&T. 2. (language) An extension of C with asynchronous message passing.
- concurrently — occurring or existing simultaneously or side by side: concurrent attacks by land, sea, and air.
- conductances — Plural form of conductance.
- conductively — In a conductive manner.
- conduplicate — folded lengthways on itself
- confabulated — Simple past tense and past participle of confabulate.
- configurable — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
- configurated — to give a configuration, form, or design to.
- confoundedly — bewildered; confused; perplexed.
- confoundment — The state of being confounded.