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12-letter words containing o, u, a, n, i

  • boarding out — the local-authority practice of placing a client in a foster family or voluntary establishment and paying for it
  • boatbuilding — Boatbuilding is the craft or industry of making boats.
  • boudin blanc — a boiled sausage made with light-colored meat, as veal or chicken, and without blood
  • bougainville — an island in the W Pacific, in Papua New Guinea: the largest of the Solomon Islands: unilaterally declared independence in 1990; occupied by government troops in 1992, and granted autonomy in 2001. Chief town: Kieta. Area: 10 049 sq km (3880 sq miles)
  • boulangerite — a bluish lead-gray mineral, lead antimony sulfide, Pb 5 Sb 4 S 11 , a minor ore of lead.
  • brain tumour — a tumour that is situated in the brain
  • bring around — If you bring someone around when they are unconscious, you make them become conscious again.
  • buccolingual — of or relating to the cheek and tongue.
  • bud mutation — a variation produced by a genetic alteration in the bud such that the seeds produced by the resulting growth perpetuate the change in succeeding generations.
  • buenos aires — the capital of Argentina, a major port and industrial city on the Río de la Plata estuary: became capital in 1880; university (1821). Pop: 13 349 000 (2005 est)
  • bunco artist — a confidence trickster or con artist
  • buoyancy aid — a type of usually foam-filled lifejacket designed for use in sports such as canoeing
  • burial mound — a barrow
  • burkina faso — an inland republic in W Africa: dominated by Mossi kingdoms (10th–19th centuries); French protectorate established in 1896; became an independent republic in 1960; consists mainly of a flat savanna plateau. Official language: French; Mossi and other African languages also widely spoken. Religion: mostly animist, with a large Muslim minority. Currency: franc. Capital: Ouagadougou. Pop: 17 812 961 (2013 est). Area: 273 200 sq km (105 900 sq miles)
  • button quail — any small quail-like terrestrial bird of the genus Turnix, such as T. sylvatica (striped button quail), occurring in tropical and subtropical regions of the Old World: family Turnicidae, order Gruiformes (cranes, rails, etc)
  • byelorussian — Byelorussian means belonging or relating to Byelorussia or to its people or culture.
  • cacophonious — cacophonous
  • calculations — Plural form of calculation.
  • calumniation — to make false and malicious statements about; slander.
  • calumniators — Plural form of calumniator.
  • calumniatory — of, involving, or using calumny; slanderous; defamatory.
  • calumniously — in a calumnious manner
  • camouflaging — Present participle of camouflage.
  • cape sounion — Cape, a cape in E central Greece, SE of Athens, at the tip of the Attica peninsula, in W Aegean Sea.
  • capitulation — the act of capitulating
  • captiousness — The state of being captious.
  • carillonneur — a person who plays a carillon
  • carnivourous — Misspelling of carnivorous.
  • catamountain — any of several wildcats, esp. the leopard or the European wildcat
  • cater-cousin — a close friend
  • causationism — the theory of universal causation
  • causationist — a person who believes in the theory of universal causation
  • cautiousness — showing, using, or characterized by caution: a cautious man; To be cautious is often to show wisdom.
  • centuriation — the process or act of dividing land into centuries or equal areas undertaken by the Romans
  • changchiakou — Zhangjiakou
  • cheluviation — the leaching of chelates through soil
  • chincoteague — a town on a small island in a lagoon (Chincoteague Bay) in E Virginia: annual wild pony roundup.
  • chinhuangtao — a seaport in NE Hebei province, in NE China, on the Bohai.
  • cinnamon bun — a honey bun flavored with cinnamon and often containing raisins.
  • circulations — Plural form of circulation.
  • claudication — limping; lameness
  • claustration — the act of confining to a small space (usually a cloister)
  • coal-burning — fuelled by burning coal
  • cocaine bust — an arrest for the possession of cocaine
  • colliquation — liquefaction
  • colluctation — a struggle or conflict
  • coloquintida — colocynth (defs 1, 2).
  • colourations — Plural form of colouration.
  • columnarized — columnar (def 3).
  • columniation — the arrangement of architectural columns
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