11-letter words containing u, i, n
- aquaintance — Misspelling of acquaintance.
- aquamarines — Plural form of aquamarine.
- aquanautics — the study or practice of undersea travel
- aquaplaning — loss of contact with the road because of surface water
- aquatinting — Present participle of aquatint.
- aquatintist — a person who creates aquatints
- archegonium — a female sex organ, occurring in mosses, spore-bearing vascular plants, and gymnosperms, that produces a single egg cell in its swollen base
- arenicolous — growing or living in sand or sandy places
- argumentive — argumentative
- ars antiqua — the style of composition characteristic of the 13th century, especially in France.
- aru islands — a group of islands in Indonesia, in the SW Moluccas. Area: about 8500 sq km (3300 sq miles)
- assumptions — something taken for granted; a supposition: a correct assumption. Synonyms: presupposition; hypothesis, conjecture, guess, postulate, theory.
- astronautic — Of or pertaining to astronautics.
- at gunpoint — If you are held at gunpoint, someone is threatening to shoot and kill you if you do not obey them.
- attenuating — to weaken or reduce in force, intensity, effect, quantity, or value: to attenuate desire.
- attenuation — the act of attenuating or the state of being attenuated
- attitudinal — Attitudinal means related to people's attitudes and the way they look at their life.
- attributing — to regard as resulting from a specified cause; consider as caused by something indicated (usually followed by to): She attributed his bad temper to ill health.
- attribution — the act of attributing; ascription.
- attuitional — of or relating to attuition
- auction off — If you auction off something, you sell it to the person who offers the most money for it, often at an auction.
- auctioneers — Plural form of auctioneer.
- audibleness — The state or quality of being audible.
- auditionees — a person who competes or takes part in an audition.
- auditioning — Present participle of audition.
- augustinian — of or relating to Saint Augustine of Hippo, his doctrines, or any of the Christian religious orders that were founded on his doctrines
- aunt jemima — Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. a black woman considered by other black people to be subservient to or to curry favor with white people.
- aurignacian — of, relating to, or produced during a flint culture of the Upper Palaeolithic type characterized by the use of bone and antler tools, pins, awls, etc, and also by cave art and evidence of the beginnings of religion
- auspicating — Present participle of auspicate.
- austenitize — to form austenite in (a ferrous alloy) by heating.
- australiana — objects or documents relating to Australia and its history or culture esp in the form of a collection
- austronesia — the islands of the central and S Pacific, including Indonesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia
- authentical — authentic.
- authenticly — Alternative spelling of authentically.
- authorising — Present participle of authorise.
- authorizing — Present participle of authorize.
- auto racing — the sport of racing automobiles in which drivers compete against each other on a course designed for racing or on closed public roads.
- auto-immune — Auto-immune describes medical conditions in which normal cells are attacked by the body's immune system.
- autoantigen — an antigen of one's own cells or cell products.
- autoclaving — Present participle of autoclave.
- autodynamic — Supplying its own power.
- autogenesis — spontaneous generation
- autogenetic — self-generated.
- autokinesis — a visual illusion occurring in low light, in which a stationary bright spot appears to be moving
- autokinetic — automatically self-moving
- autoloading — self-loading
- autonomical — autonomous.
- autowinders — Plural form of autowinder.
- autozeroing — (electronics) A sampling technique that measures an offset from zero and later compensates by subtracting the difference.
- badmouthing — Slang. to speak critically and often disloyally of; disparage: Why do you bad-mouth your family so much?