12-letter words containing u, n, m
- funambulator — a tightrope-walker; a funambulist
- funambulists — Plural form of funambulist.
- fund manager — A fund manager is someone whose job involves investing the money contained in a fund, for example, a mutual fund, on behalf of another person or organization.
- fundamentals — serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying: fundamental principles; the fundamental structure.
- fundusectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of the fundus of an organ, such as the uterus or the stomach.
- funeral home — an establishment where the dead are prepared for burial or cremation, where the body may be viewed, and where funeral services are sometimes held.
- furnace room — a room containing a furnace or an enclosed chamber for producing heat, often on the bottom floor of the building that it heats
- furnishments — Plural form of furnishment.
- furocoumarin — psoralen.
- gelande jump — jump made in downhill skiing
- giant fulmar — either of two large white or brownish petrels of the genus Macronectes, of the Antarctic Ocean and adjacent seas.
- glenohumeral — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the glenoid fossa and the humerus.
- gourmandizer — One who gourmandizes.
- graminaceous — Of, pertaining to, or resembling a grass.
- gran turismo — (of an automobile) certified as conforming to the specifications, as fuel capacity and engine displacement, for a class of standard automobiles (Gran Turismo) qualified to engage in various types of competitions. Abbreviation: GTO.
- green manure — a crop of growing plants, as clover and other nitrogen-fixing plants, plowed under to enrich the soil.
- gruesomeness — The characteristic or quality of being gruesome.
- gubernaculum — a part or organ that directs the movement or course of another part.
- gulf of oman — a strait that ultimately links the Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf
- gum ammoniac — a brownish-yellow gum resin, having an acrid taste, occurring in tearlike fragments from a plant, Dorema ammoniacum, of western Asia: used in porcelain ceramics and in medicine as an expectorant and counterirritant.
- gum-benjamin — Also called gum benjamin, gum benzoin. a reddish-brown, aromatic balsamic resin occurring in almondlike fragments and having a vanillalike odor, obtained from trees of the genus Styrax, especially S. benzoin, of Java, Sumatra, etc.: used in the manufacture of perfume and cosmetics and in medicine internally as an expectorant and externally as an antiseptic.
- gymnocarpous — (of a fungus or lichen) having the apothecium open and attached to the surface of the thallus.
- harmoniously — marked by agreement in feeling, attitude, or action: a harmonious group.
- harmoniumist — a person who plays a harmonium
- haussmannize — to rebuild in a similar fashion as Haussmann rebuilt Paris
- helianthemum — (botany) Any of the genus Helianthemum of rockroses.
- hematogenous — originating in the blood.
- hemodilution — a decreased concentration of cells and solids in blood, usually caused by an influx of fluid.
- hermeneutics — the science of interpretation, especially of the Scriptures.
- herstmonceux — a village in S England, in E Sussex north of Eastbourne: 15th-century castle, site of the Royal Observatory, which was transferred from Greenwich between 1948 and 1958, until 1990
- heteronomous — subject to or involving different laws.
- heteronymous — of, relating to, or characteristic of a heteronym.
- hibernaculum — a protective case or covering, especially for winter, as of an animal or a plant bud.
- hologonidium — soredium.
- home country — the country a person comes from
- homebuilding — the designing or constructing of houses.
- homochronous — (of a genetic character) occurring at the same age or period in the offspring as in the parent.
- homodynamous — (biology) Pertaining to, or involving, homodynamy.
- homologumena — the books in the New Testament generally held as authoritative and canonical by the early church.
- homonymously — in a homonymous manner
- horse manure — horse's excrement
- house martin — a small European swallow, Delichon urbica, that builds its nest under the eaves of houses.
- house number — the unique number given to each building on a street which forms part of that building's address
- housewarming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
- huffman code — Huffman coding
- human comedy — French La Comédie Humaine. a collected edition of tales and novels in 17 volumes (1842–48) by Honoré de Balzac.
- human genome — genetic code of human beings
- human nature — the psychological and social qualities that characterize humankind, especially in contrast with other living things.
- human rights — basic civil freedoms
- human safari — an organized tour that takes tourists to unfamiliar places where they can observe the lifestyle of indigenous or other local people: human safaris to remote tribal communities; a human safari through the slums of Mumbai.