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12-letter words containing u, n, d

  • bullet wound — a wound made by a bullet
  • bundle buggy — a shopping cart, usually one owned by the shopper rather than one provided by the store.
  • buoyancy aid — a type of usually foam-filled lifejacket designed for use in sports such as canoeing
  • burial mound — a barrow
  • burnt almond — a sweet consisting of an almond enclosed in burnt sugar
  • business end — The business end of a tool or weapon is the end of it which does the work or causes damage rather than the end that you hold.
  • buying order — an order to buy a certain security
  • cadent house — any of the four houses that precede the angles: the third, sixth, ninth, and twelfth houses, which correspond, respectively, to neighborhood and relatives, work and health, philosophy and foreign travel, and secret matters and service to others.
  • car industry — the industry concerned with the manufacture and selling of automobiles
  • card counter — a casino player who memorizes or records which cards have been played in previous hands in order to calculate the odds on receiving winning cards or combinations from those remaining to be dealt, the practice often being held as illegal.
  • card surfing — a form of cash-card fraud in which one person watches another using a cash dispenser, notes his or her personal identification number, and, after an accomplice has stolen the card, uses the card to withdraw cash
  • carunculated — Alternative form of carunculate.
  • chandragupta — Greek name Sandracottos. died ?297 bc, ruler of N India, who founded the Maurya dynasty (325) and defeated Seleucus (?305)
  • change round — to place in or adopt a different or opposite position
  • changearound — the act of changing to a different position
  • churchwarden — In the Anglican Church, a churchwarden is the person who has been chosen by a congregation to help the vicar of a parish with administration and other duties.
  • ciment fondu — a type of quick-hardening refractory cement having a high alumina content
  • circumvented — to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
  • clairaudient — the power to hear sounds said to exist beyond the reach of ordinary experience or capacity, as the voices of the dead.
  • claude monet — Claude [klawd;; French klohd] /klɔd;; French kloʊd/ (Show IPA), 1840–1926, French painter.
  • claudication — limping; lameness
  • clerodendrum — any of numerous tropical trees or shrubs of the genus Clerodendrum, having clusters of variously colored flowers.
  • closed union — a labor union in which admission of new members is restricted by rigid requirements.
  • cloud banner — banner cloud.
  • coloquintida — colocynth (defs 1, 2).
  • colour index — the difference between the apparent magnitude of a star measured in one standard waveband and in a longer standard waveband, indicating its colour and temperature
  • colour-blind — Someone who is colour-blind cannot see the difference between colours, especially between red and green.
  • column dress — a very straight, close-fitting dress.
  • columnarized — columnar (def 3).
  • come unglued — If something comes unglued, it becomes separated from the thing that it was attached to.
  • comes around — to approach or move toward a particular person or place: Come here. Don't come any closer!
  • communicated — to impart knowledge of; make known: to communicate information; to communicate one's happiness.
  • compound eye — the convex eye of insects and some crustaceans, consisting of numerous separate light-sensitive units (ommatidia)
  • compound key — (database)   (Or "multi-part key", "concatenated key") A key which consists of more than one attribute of the body of information (e.g. database "record") it identifies.
  • compoundable — That can be compounded.
  • compte rendu — a short review or notice, esp of a book
  • condominiums — Plural form of condominium.
  • conduct mark — (in school) a mark for behaviour
  • conductances — Plural form of conductance.
  • conductively — In a conductive manner.
  • conductivity — the property of transmitting heat, electricity, or sound
  • conductorial — relating to a conductor
  • conduplicate — folded lengthways on itself
  • confabulated — Simple past tense and past participle of confabulate.
  • configurated — to give a configuration, form, or design to.
  • confoundedly — bewildered; confused; perplexed.
  • confoundment — The state of being confounded.
  • confusedness — The state or quality of being confused.
  • conquistador — The conquistadors were the sixteenth-century Spanish conquerors of Central and South America.
  • consanguined — Of kindred blood; related.
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