11-letter words containing u, n, c
- ambuscading — Present participle of ambuscade.
- amentaceous — of or like an ament or aments
- anacanthous — having no spines or thorns.
- anachronous — relating to anachronism; misplaced chronologically
- anacoloutha — Plural form of anacolouthon.
- anacoluthia — lack of grammatical sequence, esp within a single sentence
- anacoluthic — Of, pertaining to, being, or resembling an anacoluthon.
- anacoluthon — a construction that involves the change from one grammatical sequence to another within a single sentence; an example of anacoluthia
- anchor buoy — a buoy used to indicate the location of an underwater anchor.
- and circuit — a logic circuit having two or more input wires and one output wire that has a high-voltage output signal if and only if all input signals are at a high voltage simultaneously: used extensively as a basic circuit in computers
- androconium — a scale on the forewing of certain male butterflies from which an odor attractive to females is emitted.
- anfractuous — characterized by twists and turns; convoluted
- animalcular — Of, relating to, or resembling, animalcules.
- animalcules — Plural form of animalcule.
- animalculum — animalcule.
- annonaceous — belonging to the plant family Annonaceae.
- annunciated — Simple past tense and past participle of annunciate.
- annunciates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of annunciate.
- annunciator — a device that gives a visual indication as to which of a number of electric circuits has operated, such as an indicator in a hotel showing in which room a bell has been rung
- antecubital — (anatomy) Pertaining to, or situated in the anterior part of the elbow (cubitus).
- anti-church — a building for public Christian worship.
- anticarious — preventing or retarding caries.
- anticruelty — the prevention of or opposition to cruelty
- anticulture — the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc.
- antimusical — opposed to musical conventions
- antinuclear — opposed to nuclear weapons
- antinucleon — an antiproton or an antineutron
- antisuicide — acting to prevent suicide
- anucleolate — lacking a nucleolus or nucleoli.
- anvil cloud — another name for a cumulonimbus cloud, which tends to be anvil-shaped
- aponeurotic — a whitish, fibrous membrane that connects a muscle to a bone or fascia.
- aquaintance — Misspelling of acquaintance.
- aquanautics — the study or practice of undersea travel
- arc furnace — a furnace in which the charge is heated by an electric arc
- arc-boutant — flying buttress.
- archegonium — a female sex organ, occurring in mosses, spore-bearing vascular plants, and gymnosperms, that produces a single egg cell in its swollen base
- arenicolous — growing or living in sand or sandy places
- astronautic — Of or pertaining to astronautics.
- asyncronous — (spelling) It's spelled "asynchronous".
- auction off — If you auction off something, you sell it to the person who offers the most money for it, often at an auction.
- auctioneers — Plural form of auctioneer.
- aurignacian — of, relating to, or produced during a flint culture of the Upper Palaeolithic type characterized by the use of bone and antler tools, pins, awls, etc, and also by cave art and evidence of the beginnings of religion
- auspicating — Present participle of auspicate.
- austromancy — Soothsaying, or prediction of events, from observation of the winds or cloud formations.
- authentical — authentic.
- authenticly — Alternative spelling of authentically.
- auto racing — the sport of racing automobiles in which drivers compete against each other on a course designed for racing or on closed public roads.
- autochanger — a device in a record player or CD player that enables a small stack of records or CDs to be dropped automatically onto the turntable or player tray one at a time and played separately
- autochthons — Plural form of autochthon.
- autochthony — pertaining to autochthons; aboriginal; indigenous (opposed to heterochthonous).