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11-letter words containing t, u, n

  • aeronautics — Aeronautics is the science of designing and building aeroplanes.
  • affluential — an affluent person who does not display his or her wealth in the form of material possessions
  • after-lunch — occurring after a midday meal
  • afterburner — a device in the exhaust system of an internal-combustion engine for removing or rendering harmless potentially dangerous components in the exhaust gases
  • agglutinant — sticking together; adhesive
  • agglutinate — to adhere or cause to adhere, as with glue
  • agglutinins — Plural form of agglutinin.
  • aggrupation — (Philippines) A group, an organization.
  • aguardiente — any inferior brandy or similar spirit, esp from Spain, Portugal, or South America
  • ailanthuses — Plural form of ailanthus.
  • air current — a mass of air moving from one area to another
  • air curtain — an air stream across a doorway to exclude draughts, etc
  • air turbine — a small turbine driven by compressed air, esp one used as a starter for engines
  • alan turing — (person)   Alan M. Turing, 1912-06-22/3? - 1954-06-07. A British mathematician, inventor of the Turing Machine. Turing also proposed the Turing test. Turing's work was fundamental in the theoretical foundations of computer science. Turing was a student and fellow of King's College Cambridge and was a graduate student at Princeton University from 1936 to 1938. While at Princeton Turing published "On Computable Numbers", a paper in which he conceived an abstract machine, now called a Turing Machine. Turing returned to England in 1938 and during World War II, he worked in the British Foreign Office. He masterminded operations at Bletchley Park, UK which were highly successful in cracking the Nazis "Enigma" codes during World War II. Some of his early advances in computer design were inspired by the need to perform many repetitive symbolic manipulations quickly. Before the building of the Colossus computer this work was done by a roomful of women. In 1945 he joined the National Physical Laboratory in London and worked on the design and construction of a large computer, named Automatic Computing Engine (ACE). In 1949 Turing became deputy director of the Computing Laboratory at Manchester where the Manchester Automatic Digital Machine, the worlds largest memory computer, was being built. He also worked on theories of artificial intelligence, and on the application of mathematical theory to biological forms. In 1952 he published the first part of his theoretical study of morphogenesis, the development of pattern and form in living organisms. Turing was gay, and died rather young under mysterious circumstances. He was arrested for violation of British homosexuality statutes in 1952. He died of potassium cyanide poisoning while conducting electrolysis experiments. An inquest concluded that it was self-administered but it is now thought by some to have been an accident. There is an excellent biography of Turing by Andrew Hodges, subtitled "The Enigma of Intelligence" and a play based on it called "Breaking the Code". There was also a popular summary of his work in Douglas Hofstadter's book "Gödel, Escher, Bach".
  • albategnius — Latin name of Battani.
  • alfred lunt — Alfred, 1893–1977, U.S. actor (husband of Lynn Fontanne).
  • allocutions — Plural form of allocution.
  • allurements — Plural form of allurement.
  • alt.country — a genre of country music originating in the 1990s and influenced by both early country music and contemporary rock music
  • altiloquent — (of language) high-flown or pretentious.
  • altitudinal — relating to altitude or height.
  • ambiguating — Present participle of ambiguate.
  • ambiguation — Act of ambiguating.
  • amentaceous — of or like an ament or aments
  • aminobutene — a synthetic pain-relieving drug
  • ammunitions — the material fired, scattered, dropped, or detonated from any weapon, as bombs or rockets, and especially shot, shrapnel, bullets, or shells fired by guns.
  • ampere-turn — a unit of magnetomotive force; the magnetomotive force produced by a current of 1 ampere passing through one complete turn of a coil. 1 ampere-turn is equivalent to 4π/10 or 1.257 gilberts
  • amphithuron — amphithyra (def 1).
  • amputations — Plural form of amputation.
  • anacanthous — having no spines or thorns.
  • anacoloutha — Plural form of anacolouthon.
  • anacoluthia — lack of grammatical sequence, esp within a single sentence
  • anacoluthic — Of, pertaining to, being, or resembling an anacoluthon.
  • anacoluthon — a construction that involves the change from one grammatical sequence to another within a single sentence; an example of anacoluthia
  • and circuit — a logic circuit having two or more input wires and one output wire that has a high-voltage output signal if and only if all input signals are at a high voltage simultaneously: used extensively as a basic circuit in computers
  • anfractuous — characterized by twists and turns; convoluted
  • angiomatous — a benign tumor consisting chiefly of dilated or newly formed blood vessels (hemangioma) or lymph vessels (lymphangioma)
  • anguishment — Anguish.
  • annulations — Plural form of annulation.
  • annunciated — Simple past tense and past participle of annunciate.
  • annunciates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of annunciate.
  • annunciator — a device that gives a visual indication as to which of a number of electric circuits has operated, such as an indicator in a hotel showing in which room a bell has been rung
  • anovulation — failure to produce eggs or to discharge them from an ovary
  • anovulatory — not associated with, not caused by, or not exhibiting ovulation.
  • antecubital — (anatomy) Pertaining to, or situated in the anterior part of the elbow (cubitus).
  • antemundane — pertaining to that which existed or occurred before the creation of world
  • antenuptial — a contract made between a man and a woman before they marry, agreeing on the distribution of their assets in the event of divorce
  • antependium — a covering hung over the front of an altar
  • antepenults — Plural form of antepenult.
  • antheridium — the male sex organ of algae, fungi, bryophytes, and spore-bearing vascular plants, such as ferns, which produces antherozoids
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