12-letter words containing u, n, a, r, i
- interfaculty — an ability, natural or acquired, for a particular kind of action: a faculty for making friends easily.
- interlingual — pertaining to or using two or more languages: an interlingual dictionary.
- interlobular — (anatomy) Between lobules.
- interlocular — having one or more locules.
- intermundane — existing in the space between worlds or heavenly bodies: intermundane space.
- internuclear — pertaining to or involving atomic weapons: nuclear war.
- internuncial — serving to announce or connect.
- internuptial — Of, or related to intermarriage.
- interpleural — situated between the pleurae
- interpluvial — designating a drier period occurring between two periods of persistently heavy rainfall
- interspousal — Often, spousals. the ceremony of marriage; nuptials.
- intertextual — the interrelationship between texts, especially works of literature; the way that similar or related texts influence, reflect, or differ from each other: the intertextuality between two novels with the same setting.
- intertubular — Between tubes or tubules.
- intralingual — within a given language; of or pertaining to a single language.
- intraluminal — Within a lumen.
- intramundane — existing or occurring within the material world.
- intramurally — In an intramural manner.
- intranuclear — existing or taking place within a nucleus.
- intraosseous — (medicine) within a bone.
- intrapreneur — an employee of a large corporation who is given freedom and financial support to create new products, services, systems, etc., and does not have to follow the corporation's usual routines or protocols.
- intrauterine — located or occurring within the uterus.
- intraveneous — Misspelling of intravenous.
- inurbaneness — The quality of being inurbane; inurbanity.
- invert sugar — a mixture of the dextrorotatory forms of glucose and fructose, formed naturally in fruits and produced artificially in syrups or fondants by treating cane sugar with acids.
- invulnerable — incapable of being wounded, hurt, or damaged.
- invulnerably — In an invulnerable manner.
- iracundulous — easily angered or irritable
- 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.
- iron sulfate — ferrous sulfate.
- isosthenuria — the inability of the kidneys to dilute or concentrate urine
- ivy geranium — a trailing geranium, Pelargonium peltatum, of southern Africa, having a fleshy stem that becomes woody with age, glossy, ivy-shaped leaves, and clusters of flowers ranging from white to deep rose in color.
- jaunting car — a light, two-wheeled, one-horse cart, once common in Ireland, having two seats set back to back, with a perch in front for the driver.
- joint author — a person who shares the writing of a book, article, etc, with another
- journalistic — of, relating to, or characteristic of journalists or journalism.
- jugular vein — vein that carries blood from head to heart
- julian bream — Julian (Alexander) born 1933, English guitarist and lutenist.
- jumping hare — springhare.
- jumpstarting — Present participle of jumpstart.
- junior class — the penultimate class in high school or college
- jury-packing — the practice of contriving that the majority of those chosen for a jury will be persons likely to have partialities affecting a particular case.
- khachaturian — Aram Ilich [ar-uh m il-yich;; Russian uh-rahm ee-lyeech] /ˈær əm ˈɪl yɪtʃ;; Russian ʌˈrɑm iˈlyitʃ/ (Show IPA), 1903–78, Armenian composer.
- labour pains — the pains felt during the contractions of childbirth
- laboursaving — reducing (human) effort, hard work, or labour
- lace-curtain — characteristic of or aspiring to the standards and attributes of the middle class: Her latest novel traces the rise of a lace-curtain Irish family in Boston.
- lark bunting — a finch, Calamospiza melanocorys, of the western U.S., the male of which is black with a large, white patch on each wing.
- laser tuning — a technique for adjusting a laser's output frequency to within a specific range, especially in semiconductors.
- latin church — the Roman Catholic Church.
- latin square — a square array of numbers, letters, etc., in which each item appears exactly once in each row and column: used in statistical analysis.
- laundry list — a lengthy, especially random list of items: a laundry list of hoped-for presents; a laundry list of someone's crimes.
- lean mixture — A lean mixture is a fuel/air mixture containing a relatively low proportion of fuel.