12-letter words containing u, n, l, o, a, d
- duplications — Plural form of duplication.
- edulcorating — Present participle of edulcorate.
- edulcoration — (rare) A sweetening.
- elucidations — Plural form of elucidation.
- endonuclease — An enzyme that cleaves a polynucleotide chain by separating nucleotides other than the two end ones.
- endovascular — Within a blood vessel.
- fardel-bound — (of ruminants) having the food impacted in the third compartment of the stomach; costive; constipated.
- float around — A rumour or idea that is floating around is often heard or talked about.
- fluidization — The act or process of fluidizing.
- fluoridating — Present participle of fluoridate.
- fluoridation — the addition of fluorides to the public water supply to reduce the incidence of tooth decay.
- foot-poundal — a foot-pound-second unit of work or energy equal to the work done by a force of one poundal when its point of application moves through a distance of one foot in the direction of the force. Abbreviation: ft-pdl.
- foundational — the basis or groundwork of anything: the moral foundation of both society and religion.
- furazolidone — a nitrofuran, C 8 H 7 N 3 O 5 , that is used in the treatment of giardiasis, and bacterial gastroenteritis and dysentery.
- glandiferous — bearing nuts or acorns
- glutaredoxin — (enzyme) Any of a family of small redox enzymes that use glutathione as a cofactor.
- grand coulee — a dry canyon in central Washington: cut by the Columbia River in the glacial period. 52 miles (84 km) long; over 400 feet (120 meters) deep.
- ground alert — the state of waiting for orders in or near combat airplanes ready to take to the air at once.
- ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
- ground fault — the momentary, usually accidental, grounding of a conducting wire.
- ground glass — Optics. glass that has had its polished surface removed by fine grinding and that is used to diffuse light.
- ground plane — (in perspective drawing) the theoretical horizontal plane receding from the picture plane to the horizon, beginning at the level of the base line.
- ground plate — Electricity. a metal plate for making a ground connection to the earth.
- gulf of aden — a waterway in the Arabian sea between Yemen and Somalia and connecting with the Red Sea
- iracundulous — easily angered or irritable
- juan hidalgo — Juan [hwahn] /ʰwɑn/ (Show IPA), c1600–85, Spanish composer and harpist.
- kalmar sound — a strait between SE Sweden and Öland Island. 85 miles (137 km) long; 14 miles (23 km) wide.
- kluge around — (jargon) To avoid a bug or difficult condition by inserting a kluge. Compare workaround.
- langue d'oil — the Romance language of medieval northern France: developed into modern French.
- latitudinous — having latitude, scope, range, breadth, etc., especially of ideas, interests, interpretations, or the like: a Renaissance man of latitudinous outlook.
- laundry room — utility room
- laundrywoman — laundress.
- laundrywomen — Plural form of laundrywoman.
- leatherbound — Bound in leather.
- leonardesque — of, relating to, or suggesting Leonardo da Vinci or the style of his paintings.
- linux loader — (operating system) (LILO) A boot loader for Linux. LILO does not depend on a specific file system, it can boot Linux kernel images from floppy disks and hard disks and can even boot other operating systems. One of up to sixteen differernt images can be selected at boot time. Various parameters, such as the root device, can be set independently for each kernel. LILO can even be used as the master boot record.
- liquidations — Plural form of liquidation.
- locus standi — the right of a party to appear and be heard before a court
- longicaudate — having a long posterior or tail
- longitudinal — of or relating to longitude or length: longitudinal measurement.
- lunar module — the portion of the Apollo spacecraft in which two astronauts landed on the moon's surface and then returned to the orbiting command module. Abbreviation: LM.
- malnourished — poorly or improperly nourished; suffering from malnutrition: thin, malnourished victims of the famine.
- mendaciously — In a lying or deceitful manner.
- modularizing — to form or organize into modules, as for flexibility.
- monadelphous — (of stamens) united into one bundle or set by their filaments.
- muddle along — If you muddle along, you live or exist without a proper plan or purpose in your life.
- multinodular — of, relating to, or characterized by nodules.
- natural food — Natural food is food which has not been processed much and has not had artificial ingredients added to it.
- neofeudalism — A theorized contemporary rebirth of policies of governance, economy and public life reminiscent of those present in many feudal societies.
- newfoundland — a large island in E Canada. 42,734 sq. mi. (110,680 sq. km).