12-letter words containing r, u, n, i
- chinese tour — a tour in which visitors are shown only what those in charge want them to see.
- chirurgeonly — in the manner of a surgeon
- churchianity — loyalty to the church rather than Christianity
- churchillian — relating to, typical of or reminiscent of Winston Churchill
- churlishness — The state of being churlish.
- 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
- cinque terre — a group of five coastal villages (Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola, and Riomaggiore) on the Ligurian Sea in NW Italy, near La Spezia.
- circularness — The state or quality of being circular.
- circulations — Plural form of circulation.
- circumbinary — (astronomy) Of, pertaining to, or having an orbit around a binary star.
- circumcenter — the center of a circumscribed circle; that point where any two perpendicular bisectors of the sides of a polygon inscribed in the circle intersect.
- circumcentre — the centre of a circumscribed circle
- circumcising — Present participle of circumcise.
- circumcision — surgical removal of the foreskin of males
- circumfluent — flowing around; surrounding; encompassing
- circumfusing — Present participle of circumfuse.
- circumfusion — to pour around; diffuse.
- circumjacent — surrounding; lying around
- circumnutate — to rotate slightly on a central axis
- circumstance — The circumstances of a particular situation are the conditions which affect what happens.
- circumvented — to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
- circumventor — to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
- cirl bunting — a European passerine bird Emberiza cirlus, of the bunting family Emberizidae
- citrangequat — A trigenic hybrid cross of two types of orange and a kumquat.
- civil unrest — Civil unrest is fighting between different groups of people living in the same country, and losses caused by this fighting are usually not covered by insurance.
- clairaudient — the power to hear sounds said to exist beyond the reach of ordinary experience or capacity, as the voices of the dead.
- claustration — the act of confining to a small space (usually a cloister)
- clearcutting — the act of felling all trees in area
- cluster pine — a pine tree, Pinus pinaster, having long thick needles and large clustered cones, native to the Mediterranean coastal regions.
- co-extrusion — simultaneous extrusion of two or more different yet compatible metals or plastics through the same die.
- coal-burning — fuelled by burning coal
- 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
- colour-blind — Someone who is colour-blind cannot see the difference between colours, especially between red and green.
- colourations — Plural form of colouration.
- columnarized — columnar (def 3).
- come running — hurry, rush
- communicator — a person who communicates, especially one skilled at conveying information, ideas, or policy to the public.
- compurgation — (formerly) a method of trial whereby a defendant might be acquitted if a sufficient number of persons swore to his innocence
- conchiferous — (esp of molluscs) having or producing a shell
- concurringly — In a concurring manner; concurrently.
- conductorial — relating to a conductor
- 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.
- configurator — an item of software that enables or assists in the configuration of a product
- congruencies — congruence.
- congruential — (mathematics) That uses congruency (division by a modulus).
- conjecturing — the formation or expression of an opinion or theory without sufficient evidence for proof.
- conjurations — Plural form of conjuration.
- connaisseurs — Plural form of connaisseur.
- connoisseurs — An expert judge in matters of taste.