10-letter words containing u, n, c
- androecium — the stamens of a flowering plant collectively
- animalcule — a microscopic animal such as an amoeba or rotifer
- announcers — Plural form of announcer.
- announcing — Present participle of announce.
- annunciate — to announce
- anonaceous — relating to the plant family Anonaceae and its members
- anschauung — direct or immediate intuition or perception of sense data with little or no rational interpretation.
- antichurch — opposed to the beliefs, practices, and adherents of the Christian church
- antilochus — a son of Nestor and a trusted friend of Achilles.
- antimachus — Also called the Colophonian. flourished c410 b.c, Greek poet.
- anucleated — without a nucleus
- aquaponics — a farming system that circulates wastewater from animal aquaculture to hydroponically cultivated plants, whereby the plants draw nutrients from the waste and filter the water, allowing for its recycled use by the aquatic animals.
- araucanian — a South American Indian language; thought to be an isolated branch of the Penutian phylum, spoken in Chile and W Argentina
- araucarian — related to or belonging to the genus Araucaria
- arenaceous — (of sedimentary rocks and deposits) composed of sand or sandstone
- ascogenous — of, relating to, or producing asci.
- ascogonium — a female reproductive body in some ascomycetous fungi in which, after fertilization, the asci develop
- assurances — Plural form of assurance.
- au courant — up-to-date, esp in knowledge of current affairs
- auctionary — of or relating to auctions or auctioneers
- auctioneer — An auctioneer is a person in charge of an auction.
- auctioning — Present participle of auction.
- audiogenic — caused or produced by sound or an audio frequency
- aureomycin — chlortetracycline
- austenitic — consisting mainly of austenite.
- authigenic — (of minerals) having crystallized in a sediment during or after deposition
- autochthon — one of the earliest known inhabitants of any country; aboriginal
- autonoetic — Of or relating to autonoesis.
- autonomics — the study of self-regulating systems for process control
- avenaceous — belonging to or of the nature of oats or oat grasses
- avirulence — The state of being avirulent.
- avouchment — The act of avouching.
- avunculate — the custom in some societies of assigning rights and duties to a maternal uncle concerning his sister's son
- backburned — Simple past tense and past participle of backburn.
- backburner — a condition of low priority or temporary deferment (usually used in the phrase on the back burner): Put other issues on the back burner until after the election.
- background — Your background is the kind of family you come from and the kind of education you have had. It can also refer to such things as your social and racial origins, your financial status, or the type of work experience that you have.
- bankruptcy — Bankruptcy is the state of being bankrupt.
- barbecuing — Present participle of barbecue.
- be in luck — You can say someone is in luck when they are in a situation where they can have what they want or need.
- beautician — A beautician is a person whose job is giving people beauty treatments such as doing their nails, treating their skin, and putting on their make-up.
- beclouding — Present participle of becloud.
- bell punch — a machine that issues or stamps a ticket, etc, ringing a bell as it does so
- benedictus — a short canticle beginning Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini in Latin and Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord in English
- berlusconi — Silvio (ˈsilvjo). born 1936, Italian politician and media tycoon: prime minister of Italy (1994–95, 2001–06, 2008–11); convicted of tax fraud and expelled from the Italian Senate in 2013
- betancourt — Rómulo [rom-yuh-loh;; Spanish raw-moo-law] /ˈrɒm yəˌloʊ;; Spanish ˈrɔ muˌlɔ/ (Show IPA), 1908–81, Venezuelan journalist and political leader: president of Venezuela 1945–48 and 1959–64.
- bicornuate — Botany, Zoology. having two horns or hornlike parts.
- bikini cut — a horizontal surgical incision in the lower abdomen, often used for a hysterectomy or a Cesarean delivery, so called because it leaves a less noticeable scar than does a vertical incision.
- binoculars — Binoculars consist of two small telescopes joined together side by side, which you look through in order to look at things that are a long way away.
- binucleate — having two nuclei
- black lung — pneumoconiosis of coal miners, caused by coal dust; anthracosis.