12-letter words containing o, u, a, c
- mockumentary — a movie or television show depicting fictional events but presented as a documentary.
- molecularity — the number of molecules or atoms that participate in an elementary process.
- monocultural — the use of land for growing only one type of crop.
- mooch around — If you mooch around or mooch about a place, you move around there slowly with no particular purpose.
- mornay sauce — a rich white sauce to which grated cheese, usually Swiss or Parmesan, and seasonings have been added
- mossycup oak — bur oak
- motor launch — a small naval vessel that chases submarines, etc
- mount carmel — a mountain ridge in NW Israel, extending from the Samarian Hills to the Mediterranean. Highest point: about 540 m (1800 ft)
- mountain cat — any of various wild feline mammals, such as the bobcat, lynx, or puma
- moustachioed — Alternative spelling of moustachio\u2019d.
- mucilaginous — of, relating to, or secreting mucilage.
- multicostate — having several costae or ribs
- multilocular — having or consisting of many cells or vesicles.
- murman coast — an Arctic coastal region in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, on the Kola Peninsula.
- museological — Pertaining to museology.
- mycetomatous — relating to or affected by a mycetoma
- myclobutanil — A triazole fungicide that works by inhibiting ergosterol biosynthesis.
- mycodomatium — an abnormal growth on a plant, caused by fungi
- nanocomputer — (architecture) /nan'oh-k*m-pyoo'tr/ A computer with molecular-sized switching elements. Designs for mechanical nanocomputers which use single-molecule sliding rods for their logic have been proposed. The controller for a nanobot would be a nanocomputer. Some nanocomputers can also be called quantum computers because quantum physics plays a major role in calculations. Richard P. Feynman is still cited today for his work in this area.
- naturopathic — (alternative medicine) Of or pertaining to naturopathy or to naturopaths.
- necrophagous — That eats dead or decaying animal flesh.
- neurological — the science of the nerves and the nervous system, especially of the diseases affecting them.
- neuroplastic — Of or pertaining to neuroplasticity.
- neurosarcoma — A malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor, a form of cancer of the connective tissue surrounding nerves.
- neurotically — of, relating to, or characteristic of neurosis.
- neurotypical — relating to or showing typical neurological behavior and development: She has one dyslexic and one neurotypical child.
- nitrous acid — an acid, HNO 2 , known only in solution.
- noctambulant — of, relating to, or given to sleepwalking.
- noctambulism — somnambulism.
- noctambulist — somnambulism.
- noctambulous — of, relating to, or given to sleepwalking.
- nocturnality — of or relating to the night (opposed to diurnal).
- nomenclature — a set or system of names or terms, as those used in a particular science or art, by an individual or community, etc.
- non-communal — used or shared in common by everyone in a group: a communal jug of wine.
- non-conjugal — of, relating to, or characteristic of marriage: conjugal vows.
- non-culpable — deserving blame or censure; blameworthy.
- non-cultural — of or relating to culture or cultivation.
- non-curative — serving to cure or heal; pertaining to curing or remedial treatment; remedial.
- non-occupant — a person, family, group, or organization that lives in, occupies, or has quarters or space in or on something: the occupant of a taxicab; the occupants of the building.
- non-vascular — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
- nonarticular — Using or involving the muscles rather than the joints.
- nonautomatic — not automatic, operated by hand and not machines
- noncancerous — (of tissue) not cancerous, benign
- noncausative — Not causative.
- nonclemature — Misspelling of nomenclature.
- nonconjugate — Grammar. to inflect (a verb). to recite or display all or some subsets of the inflected forms of (a verb), in a fixed order: One conjugates the present tense of the verb “be” as “I am, you are, he is, we are, you are, they are.”.
- noncrushable — (of a container, material, etc) not easily crushed
- noncustodial — Not having custody of one’s children after a divorce.
- nondualistic — of, relating to, or of the nature of dualism.
- noneducation — not involving education