11-letter words containing u, n, c, e, a
- glucokinase — an enzyme, found in all living systems, that serves to catalyze the phosphorylation of gluconic acid.
- glucosamine — an aminosugar occurring in many polysaccharides of vertebrate tissue and also as the major component of chitin.
- granduncles — Plural form of granduncle.
- granulocyte — a circulating white blood cell having prominent granules in the cytoplasm and a nucleus of two or more lobes.
- great-uncle — a granduncle.
- guinea corn — durra.
- hallucinate — to have hallucinations.
- hardecanute — 1019?–42, king of Denmark 1035–42, king of England 1040–42 (son of Canute).
- hardicanute — 1019?–42, king of Denmark 1035–42, king of England 1040–42 (son of Canute).
- haunch bone — the ilium or hipbone.
- haunch-bone — the ilium or hipbone.
- herculaneum — an ancient city in SW Italy, on the Bay of Naples: buried along with Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in a.d. 79; partially excavated.
- hibernacula — Plural form of hibernaculum.
- homonuclear — a homonuclear molecule is composed of atoms of the same element or isotope and all of its nuclei are alike
- horn clause — (logic) A set of atomic literals with at most one positive literal. Usually written L <- L1, ..., Ln or <- L1, ..., Ln where n>=0, "<-" means "is implied by" and comma stands for conjuction ("AND"). If L is false the clause is regarded as a goal. Horn clauses can express a subset of statements of first order logic. The name "Horn Clause" comes from the logician Alfred Horn, who first pointed out the significance of such clauses in 1951, in the article "On sentences which are true of direct unions of algebras", Journal of Symbolic Logic, 16, 14-21. A definite clause is a Horn clause that has exactly one positive literal.
- house-clean — to clean the inside of a person's house
- hue and cry — Early English Law. the pursuit of a felon or an offender with loud outcries or clamor to give an alarm.
- humectation — A moistening.
- hunchbacked — humpbacked.
- illuminance — illumination (def 6).
- impuissance — Impotence, weakness.
- inauthentic — not authentic: inauthentic Indian jewelry mass-produced in a factory.
- incapsulate — Alternative form of encapsulate.
- include war — Excessive multi-leveled including within a discussion thread, a practice that tends to annoy readers. In a forum with high-traffic newsgroups, such as Usenet, this can lead to flames and the urge to start a kill file.
- increaseful — full of increase; fertile; fruitful
- inculcative — to implant by repeated statement or admonition; teach persistently and earnestly (usually followed by upon or in): to inculcate virtue in the young.
- incumbrance — encumbrance.
- indeciduate — Zoology. not deciduate.
- inductances — Plural form of inductance.
- induplicate — folded or rolled inward: said of the parts of the calyx or corolla when the edges are bent abruptly toward the axis, or of leaves in vernation when the edges are rolled inward and then arranged about the axis without overlapping.
- ineducation — lack of education.
- ineffectual — not effectual; without satisfactory or decisive effect: an ineffectual remedy.
- ineluctable — incapable of being evaded; inescapable: an ineluctable destiny. Synonyms: inevitable, unavoidable, irrevocable, unpreventable, unstoppable, inexorable. Antonyms: certain, sure, fated.
- ineluctably — incapable of being evaded; inescapable: an ineluctable destiny. Synonyms: inevitable, unavoidable, irrevocable, unpreventable, unstoppable, inexorable. Antonyms: certain, sure, fated.
- inexcusable — incapable of being excused or justified.
- inexcusably — incapable of being excused or justified.
- inoculative — to implant (a disease agent or antigen) in a person, animal, or plant to produce a disease for study or to stimulate disease resistance.
- inosculated — Simple past tense and past participle of inosculate.
- inosculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inosculate.
- inscrutable — incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable.
- insectarium — a place in which a collection of living insects is kept, as in a zoo.
- insouciance — the quality of being insouciant; lack of care or concern; indifference.
- intercampus — the grounds, often including the buildings, of a college, university, or school.
- intercrural — of or relating to the leg or the hind limb.
- intercupola — the space between an inner and an outer dome.
- interocular — being, or situated, between the eyes.
- involucrate — having an involucre.
- ipecacuanha — the dried root of a shrubby South American plant, Cephaelis ipecacuanha, of the madder family.
- isoceraunic — representing, having, or indicating equality in the frequency or intensity of thunderstorms: isoceraunic line; isoceraunic map.
- isokeraunic — isoceraunic.