12-letter words containing u, n, m
- antileukemic — acting against leukemia
- antimosquito — acting against mosquitoes
- antirrhinums — Plural form of antirrhinum.
- antitumoural — acting against or upon tumours
- aqua ammonia — a water solution of ammonia; ammonia water; ammonium hydroxide
- assimulating — Present participle of assimulate.
- assimulation — Obsolete form of assimilation.
- assumed bond — a bond issued by one corporation and assumed as an obligation by another.
- assumed name — If you do something under an assumed name, you do it using a name that is not your real name.
- athos, mount — autonomous monastic district occupying the tip of the easternmost prong of the Chalcidice peninsula, NE Greece: 130 sq mi (337 sq km); pop. 1,500
- auction room — a room in a building where auctions take place
- augmentation — the act of augmenting or the state of being augmented
- augmentative — tending or able to augment
- autoimmunity — (pathology, immunology) The condition where one's immune system attacks one's own tissues, i.e., an autoimmune disorder.
- automatizing — Present participle of automatize.
- automobiling — (dated) present participle of automobile.
- autonomously — Government. self-governing; independent; subject to its own laws only. pertaining to an autonomy, or a self-governing community.
- autumn olive — a spiny shrub (Elaeagnus umbellata) of the oleaster family, having leaves covered with silvery or brown scales
- ayuntamiento — (in Spain) a municipal council
- backcourtman — any of the players stationed in the backcourt; a guard
- banquet room — A banquet room is a room in a hotel where large formal meals for many people can be held.
- barium enema — an injection into the rectum of a preparation of barium sulphate, which is opaque to X-rays, before X-raying the lower alimentary canal
- base jumping — a sport in which a participant parachutes from any of a variety of fixed objects such as high buildings, cliffs, etc
- beaumontague — a cement-like substance used to fill in and hide cracks and holes in woodwork and metalwork
- bed moulding — a moulding in an entablature between the corona and the frieze
- befuddlement — to confuse, as with glib statements or arguments: politicians befuddling the public with campaign promises.
- benumbedness — the condition of being benumbed
- bequeathment — to dispose of (personal property, especially money) by last will: She bequeathed her half of the company to her niece.
- beurre manie — butterpaste.
- bilingualism — Bilingualism is the ability to speak two languages equally well.
- bimillennium — a period of two thousand years
- biocomputing — the application of computing to problems in biology, biochemistry, and genetics
- bismuthinite — a grey mineral consisting of bismuth sulphide in orthorhombic crystalline form. It occurs in veins associated with tin, copper, silver, lead, etc, and is a source of bismuth. Formula: Bi2S3
- blind summit — a point on a road where a vehicle approaching the top of a hill or incline cannot see vehicles approaching up the other side of the hill
- blue jasmine — a southern U.S. shrubby vine, Clematis crispa, of the buttercup family, having solitary, bell-shaped, blue or bluish-purple to pink flowers and bearing fruit with silky appendages.
- bonus number — (in the National Lottery) a number announced after the normal six numbers which influences the amount of prize money paid
- bonus scheme — a scheme in a company or other organization according to which employees receive a bonus if they meet specified targets
- bottom round — a cut of beef taken from outside the round, which is below the rump and above the upper leg.
- bradmanesque — (of a batsman or innings) reminiscent of Sir Don Bradman in terms of dominance over the opposing bowlers
- brain tumour — a tumour that is situated in the brain
- bud mutation — a variation produced by a genetic alteration in the bud such that the seeds produced by the resulting growth perpetuate the change in succeeding generations.
- bullamakanka — an imaginary very remote and backward place
- bumping race — (esp at Oxford and Cambridge) a race in which rowing eights start an equal distance one behind the other and each tries to bump the boat in front
- burial mound — a barrow
- burnt almond — a sweet consisting of an almond enclosed in burnt sugar
- calceamentum — (in ancient Rome) a sandal, boot, shoe, or other type of footwear
- calumniating — Present participle of calumniate.
- calumniation — to make false and malicious statements about; slander.
- calumniators — Plural form of calumniator.
- calumniatory — of, involving, or using calumny; slanderous; defamatory.