12-letter words containing t, r, o, u, n, c
- high country — a mountainous area below the timberline; a forested mountain area.
- hill country — hilly area
- hippocentaur — Centaur.
- home country — the country a person comes from
- host country — nation staging an international event
- hydronautics — (nautical) The science of the design and construction of ships, their engines, and their instrumentation.
- in-congruent — not congruent.
- incorruption — the quality or condition of being incorrupt.
- incorruptive — incorruptible; not tending to be corrupted
- incrustation — an incrusting or being incrusted.
- infraduction — (medicine) The turning downward of a part, especially of the eye.
- inoperculate — having no operculum.
- instructions — the act or practice of instructing or teaching; education.
- insurrection — an act or instance of rising in revolt, rebellion, or resistance against civil authority or an established government.
- interacinous — situated between the acini of a gland or lung.
- interclusion — the act of intercluding
- intercommune — to commune or converse together
- intercountry — a state or nation: What European countries have you visited?
- interlocular — having one or more locules.
- interlocuter — A person who participates in a conversation.
- interlocutor — a person who takes part in a conversation or dialogue.
- internucleon — internuclear
- internuncios — Plural form of internuncio.
- introduction — the act of introducing or the state of being introduced.
- introductive — serving or used to introduce; preliminary; beginning: an introductory course; an introductory paragraph.
- introductory — serving or used to introduce; preliminary; beginning: an introductory course; an introductory paragraph.
- iron curtain — (sometimes initial capital letters) a barrier to understanding and the exchange of information and ideas created by ideological, political, and military hostility of one country toward another, especially such a barrier between the Soviet Union and its allies and other countries.
- journalistic — of, relating to, or characteristic of journalists or journalism.
- jurisconsult — Roman and Civil Law. a person authorized to give legal advice.
- jurisdiction — the right, power, or authority to administer justice by hearing and determining controversies.
- lubrications — Plural form of lubrication.
- lucubrations — Plural form of lucubration.
- matriclinous — Having mostly maternally-inherited characteristics.
- matroclinous — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the maternal parent (opposed to patrocliny).
- metachronous — Medicine/Medical. occurring at a different time than a similar event: metachronous tumors.
- microcentury — One CS professor used to characterise the standard length of his lectures as a microcentury - that is, about 52.6 minutes (see also attoparsec, nanoacre, and especially microfortnight).
- minicomputer — a computer with processing and storage capabilities smaller than those of a mainframe but larger than those of a microcomputer.
- misconstrual — A misinterpretation of the meaning of something.
- misconstruct — To construct wrongly.
- misconstrued — Simple past tense and past participle of misconstrue.
- misconstrues — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misconstrue.
- mockumentary — a movie or television show depicting fictional events but presented as a documentary.
- monocultural — the use of land for growing only one type of crop.
- monocultures — Plural form of monoculture.
- monotrichous — (of bacteria) having a single flagellum at one pole.
- 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)
- mucoproteins — Plural form of mucoprotein.
- mucopurulent — containing or composed of mucus and pus.
- murman coast — an Arctic coastal region in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, on the Kola Peninsula.