12-letter words containing u, n, i, o, c
- cacophonious — cacophonous
- calculations — Plural form of calculation.
- calumniation — to make false and malicious statements about; slander.
- calumniators — Plural form of calumniator.
- calumniatory — of, involving, or using calumny; slanderous; defamatory.
- calumniously — in a calumnious manner
- camouflaging — Present participle of camouflage.
- cape sounion — Cape, a cape in E central Greece, SE of Athens, at the tip of the Attica peninsula, in W Aegean Sea.
- capitulation — the act of capitulating
- captiousness — The state of being captious.
- carillonneur — a person who plays a carillon
- carnivourous — Misspelling of carnivorous.
- catamountain — any of several wildcats, esp. the leopard or the European wildcat
- cater-cousin — a close friend
- causationism — the theory of universal causation
- causationist — a person who believes in the theory of universal causation
- cautiousness — showing, using, or characterized by caution: a cautious man; To be cautious is often to show wisdom.
- cementitious — of, relating to, or characteristic of cement
- censoriously — In a censorious manner.
- centuriation — the process or act of dividing land into centuries or equal areas undertaken by the Romans
- changchiakou — Zhangjiakou
- cheluviation — the leaching of chelates through soil
- chincoteague — a town on a small island in a lagoon (Chincoteague Bay) in E Virginia: annual wild pony roundup.
- chinese tour — a tour in which visitors are shown only what those in charge want them to see.
- chinhuangtao — a seaport in NE Hebei province, in NE China, on the Bohai.
- chirurgeonly — in the manner of a surgeon
- ciment fondu — a type of quick-hardening refractory cement having a high alumina content
- cinnamon bun — a honey bun flavored with cinnamon and often containing raisins.
- cinque ports — an association of ports on the SE coast of England, originally consisting of Hastings, Romney, Hythe, Dover, and Sandwich, which from late Anglo-Saxon times provided ships for the king's service in return for the profits of justice in their courts. The Cinque Ports declined with the growth of other ports and surrendered their charters in 1685
- circulations — Plural form of circulation.
- circumcision — surgical removal of the foreskin of males
- circumfusion — to pour around; diffuse.
- circumventor — to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
- city council — a municipal body having legislative and administrative powers, such as passing ordinances and appropriating funds.
- claudication — limping; lameness
- claustration — the act of confining to a small space (usually a cloister)
- closed union — a labor union in which admission of new members is restricted by rigid requirements.
- co-extrusion — simultaneous extrusion of two or more different yet compatible metals or plastics through the same die.
- coal-burning — fuelled by burning coal
- cocaine bust — an arrest for the possession of cocaine
- coconut milk — Coconut milk is the milky juice inside coconuts.
- colliquation — liquefaction
- colluctation — a struggle or conflict
- 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.
- colourations — Plural form of colouration.
- column shift — A column shift is a gearshift lever mounted on the steering column.
- columnarized — columnar (def 3).
- columniation — the arrangement of architectural columns