12-letter words containing u, n, a, r, i
- nulligravida — A female who has never been pregnant.
- numerability — the fact of having the ability to be counted
- nuri as-said — 1888–1958, Iraqi soldier and statesman: prime minister of Iraq 14 times between 1930 and 1958: he died during a military coup
- nurse's aide — a person who assists professional nurses, as in a hospital, by performing such routine tasks as making beds and serving meals.
- nurserymaids — Plural form of nurserymaid.
- obscurantism — opposition to the increase and spread of knowledge.
- obscurantist — opposition to the increase and spread of knowledge.
- obscurations — Plural form of obscuration.
- old prussian — a Baltic language extinct since the 17th century. Abbreviation: OPruss.
- oncornavirus — any of various RNA viruses that cause tumors in humans and other animals.
- orange juice — fruit drink: nectar of orange
- oriental rug — a rug or carpet woven usually in Asia and characterized by hand-knotted pile.
- original gum — See o.g (def 1).
- orion nebula — a luminous nebula in the constellation Orion, in the center of Orion's sword.
- ornithogalum — any plant of the genus Ornithogalum
- osco-umbrian — a group of languages, usually classified as Italic, that contains Oscan and Umbrian.
- outmigration — to leave a region, community, etc., to move or settle into a different part of one's country or home territory: People are no longer out-migrating from the South in such large numbers.
- outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
- over-anxious — excessively anxious.
- overissuance — the act of issuing in excessive amounts
- oversanguine — too optimistic
- paradoxurine — relating to the palm civet
- paring gouge — a woodworker's gouge having the bezel on the concave face.
- parsimonious — characterized by or showing parsimony; frugal or stingy.
- passionfruit — any edible fruit of a passionflower, as the maypop.
- pasteurising — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
- patroclinous — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the paternal parent (opposed to matrocliny).
- percussional — of or relating to percussion
- perpetuating — to make perpetual.
- perpetuation — to make perpetual.
- persian gulf — strait in the Indian Ocean
- pertinacious — holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute.
- perturbation — the act of perturbing.
- petrobrusian — a member of a 12th-century sect in S France that rejected the Mass, infant baptism, prayers for the dead, sacerdotalism, the veneration of the cross, and the building of churches.
- picornavirus — any of a group of small, RNA-containing viruses of the family Picornaviridae, infectious to humans and other animals, and including the poliovirus and the rhinoviruses that cause the common cold.
- pig launcher — A pig launcher is a device which starts a pig moving without interrupting flow.
- plain turkey — a bustard
- porcelainous — made of or resembling porcelain
- pratincolous — living in a meadow.
- pre-issuance — the act of issuing.
- pregustation — the act of tasting beforehand
- preinaugural — occurring before an inauguration
- prelingually — in a prelingual manner
- premium loan — a loan made by a life-insurance company in order that a policyholder may pay the due premium, the cash value on the policy serving as security.
- prison guard — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
- productional — the act of producing; creation; manufacture.
- progymnasium — (in Europe) a school that prepares pupils for secondary education (the gymnasium)
- promulgation — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- propugnation — defence
- protactinium — a radioactive, metallic element. Symbol: Pa; atomic number: 91.