11-letter words containing u, n, l, c
- fraudulence — characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes.
- fraudulency — characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes.
- full cousin — cousin (def 1).
- functionals — Plural form of functional.
- funnel cake — a crisp, deep-fried cake, made by pouring batter through a funnel into fat or oil, usually in a spiral shape, and dusted with powdered sugar.
- furnacelike — Resembling or characteristic of a furnace.
- furunculous — Furuncular.
- geniculated — Geniculate.
- genius loci — the guardian spirit of a place.
- genuflected — Simple past tense and past participle of genuflect.
- gesticulant — making or tending to make gestures or gesticulations: a gesticulant speaker.
- glaucescent — becoming glaucous; somewhat glaucous.
- glauconitic — a greenish micaceous mineral consisting essentially of a hydrous silicate of potassium, aluminum, and iron and occurring in greensand, clays, etc.
- glaucophane — a sodium-rich monoclinic mineral of the amphibole family, usually metamorphic.
- 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.
- glucuronide — a glycoside that yields glucuronic acid upon hydrolysis.
- glycogenous — of or relating to the formation of sugar in the liver.
- golden buck — a dish consisting of Welsh rabbit topped with a poached egg.
- golden club — an aquatic plant, Orontium aquaticum, of the arum family, native to the eastern U.S., having blue-green leaves and a clublike spadix covered with tiny yellow flowers.
- 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.
- groundcloth — A groundcloth is a piece of waterproof material which you put on the ground to sleep on when you are camping.
- guadalcanal — the largest of the Solomon Islands, in the W central Pacific: U.S. victory over the Japanese 1942–43. About 2500 sq. mi. (6475 sq. km).
- gun control — government regulation of the sale and ownership of firearms.
- gun culture — the attitudes, feelings, values, and behaviour of a society, or any social group, in which guns are used
- gun licence — an official document granting a person permission to own and use a gun, usually subject to various restrictions
- hallucinant — a person who experiences hallucinations
- hallucinate — to have hallucinations.
- hard launch — the general or official launch, esp of a website, after which all features, products, and services are understood to be available
- 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
- honeylocust — any of a genus (Gleditsia) of trees of the caesalpinia family, esp. a North American species (G. triacanthos) usually having strong, thorny branches, featherlike foliage, and large, twisted pods containing beanlike seeds and a sweet pulp
- honeysuckle — any upright or climbing shrub of the genus Diervilla, especially D. lonicera, cultivated for its fragrant white, yellow, or red tubular flowers.
- 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
- illuminance — illumination (def 6).
- immunologic — the branch of science dealing with the components of the immune system, immunity from disease, the immune response, and immunologic techniques of analysis.
- in close-up — If you see something in close-up, you see it in great detail in a photograph or piece of film which has been taken very near to the subject.
- in full cry — When someone is in full cry, they are expressing their views very strongly or are very active.
- in the club — pregnant
- incapsulate — Alternative form of encapsulate.
- include out — to exclude
- 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.
- inclusively — including or encompassing the stated limit or extremes in consideration or account (usually used postpositively): from 6 to 37 inclusive.
- inclusivism — The practice of incorporating disparate or unreconciled elements in a single, inclusive system or theory.
- inclusivity — An intention or policy of including people who might otherwise be excluded or marginalized, such as those who are handicapped or learning-disabled, or racial and sexual minorities.
- incorruptly — Without corruption.