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13-letter words containing u, n, a, r, o

  • bud variation — any variation in a bud due to changes in either its genetic composition or environment or both such that the resulting flower, fruit, or shoot differs from others of the same plant or species.
  • bumble around — When someone bumbles around or bumbles about, they behave in a confused, disorganized way, making mistakes and usually not achieving anything.
  • buoyant force — the law that a body immersed in a fluid is buoyed up by a force (buoyant force) equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the body.
  • burial ground — A burial ground is a place where bodies are buried, especially an ancient place.
  • by reputation — If you know someone by reputation, you have never met them but you have heard of their reputation.
  • canon regular — a clergyman of certain religious communities following a monastic rule
  • carbon tissue — a sheet of paper coated with pigmented gelatine, used in the carbon process
  • carbon-tissue — paper faced with a preparation of carbon or other material, used between two sheets of plain paper in order to reproduce on the lower sheet that which is written or typed on the upper.
  • carboniferous — yielding coal or carbon
  • carbonium ion — type of positively charged organic ion
  • carbonneutral — pertaining to or having achieved a state in which the net amount of carbon dioxide or other carbon compounds emitted into the atmosphere is reduced to zero because it is balanced by actions to reduce or offset these emissions: Since the administration installed solar panels, the campus has become carbon neutral; a carbon-neutral brewery.
  • carburization — Impregnation or reaction with carbon, especially in the manufacture of steel.
  • carcinomatous — a malignant and invasive epithelial tumor that spreads by metastasis and often recurs after excision; cancer.
  • caribou inuit — a member of any of the Inuit peoples who formerly inhabited the Barren Lands of N Canada
  • carillonneurs — Plural form of carillonneur.
  • carnivorously — In a carnivorous manner.
  • carotid sinus — specialized nerve end organs producing a slight dilatation of the carotid artery where it branches into the external and internal carotid arteries, responding to changes in blood pressure by mediating changes in the heartbeat rate.
  • carrantuohill — a mountain in SW Republic of Ireland, in Macgillicuddy's Reeks in Kerry: the highest peak in Ireland. Height: 1041 m (3414 ft)
  • cartilaginous — of or like cartilage; gristly
  • cartiliginous — Alternative form of cartilaginous.
  • caudine forks — a narrow pass in the Apennines, in S Italy, between Capua and Benevento: scene of the defeat of the Romans by the Samnites (321 bc)
  • cauterisation — Alt form cauterization.
  • cauterization — to burn with a hot iron, electric current, fire, or a caustic, especially for curative purposes; treat with a cautery.
  • cavernicolous — inhabiting caves or cavelike places
  • center around — to have as a central point, focus of attention, etc.
  • ceruloplasmin — a protein responsible for copper detoxification, found in the blood
  • charnel house — A charnel house is a place where the bodies and bones of dead people are stored.
  • chondromatous — a benign cartilaginous tumor or growth.
  • clamorousness — The state or quality of being clamorous.
  • clearinghouse — If an organization acts as a clearinghouse, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
  • coal industry — a branch of commercial enterprise concerned with the discovery and mining of coal
  • coconut cream — Also called cream of coconut. a creamy white liquid skimmed from the top of coconut milk that has been made by soaking grated coconut meat in water, used in East Indian cookery, mixed drinks, etc.
  • coconut water — the watery, drinkable liquid inside an immature coconut.
  • coeur d'alene — a member of an Indian people in N Idaho around Coeur d'Alene Lake.
  • collar button — the button used to fasten the collar down on a garment
  • colourisation — Alternative spelling of colorization.
  • commensurable — having a common factor
  • commensurably — In a commensurable manner; so as to be commensurable.
  • commensurated — Simple past tense and past participle of commensurate.
  • commensurates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of commensurate.
  • communautaire — supporting the principles of the European Community (now the European Union)
  • communicators — Plural form of communicator.
  • communicatory — inclined to communicate or impart; talkative: He isn't feeling very communicative today.
  • communitarian — a member of a communist community
  • conclusionary — conclusory
  • confabulatory — the act of confabulating; conversation; discussion.
  • configurating — to give a configuration, form, or design to.
  • configuration — A configuration is an arrangement of a group of things.
  • configurative — the relative disposition or arrangement of the parts or elements of a thing.
  • conglutinator — an agent that conglutinates
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