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11-letter words containing u, n, s, c

  • 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 finch — a small common finch, Carpodacus mexicanus, originally of the western U.S. and Mexico and now widely distributed: the males have a red forehead, throat, breast, and rump.
  • house-clean — to clean the inside of a person's house
  • hsuan chiao — Taoism (def 2).
  • huckstering — Present participle of huckster.
  • icing sugar — Icing sugar is very fine white sugar that is used for making icing and sweets.
  • icosandrous — belonging to the Icosandria, a class of plants
  • impecunious — having little or no money; penniless; poor.
  • impuissance — Impotence, weakness.
  • 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.
  • inasmuch as — to the extent that, in that
  • incapacious — Not capacious; narrow, small, weak, or foolish.
  • incapsulate — Alternative form of encapsulate.
  • 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.
  • incommodius — Misspelling of incommodious.
  • incongruous — out of keeping or place; inappropriate; unbecoming: an incongruous effect; incongruous behavior.
  • inconscious — (obsolete) unconscious.
  • increaseful — full of increase; fertile; fruitful
  • incredulous — not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical.
  • incubations — Plural form of incubation.
  • incuriosity — The quality or state of lacking curiosity.
  • incuriously — In an incurious manner.
  • incurrences — Plural form of incurrence.
  • indeciduous — not deciduous, as leaves.
  • inducements — Plural form of inducement.
  • inductances — Plural form of inductance.
  • inductivism — The use of or preference for inductive methods of reasoning, especially in science.
  • indulgences — Plural form of indulgence.
  • inexcusable — incapable of being excused or justified.
  • inexcusably — incapable of being excused or justified.
  • influencers — Plural form of influencer.
  • infructuose — Not yielding fruit.
  • infructuous — (Pakistan and India only; of a project etc) not fruitful.
  • injudicious — not judicious; showing lack of judgment; unwise; imprudent; indiscreet: an injudicious decision.
  • injunctions — Plural form of injunction.
  • innocuously — not harmful or injurious; harmless: an innocuous home remedy.
  • inofficious — being inconsistent with moral duty and natural affection.
  • inosculated — Simple past tense and past participle of inosculate.
  • inosculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inosculate.
  • inscrutable — incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable.
  • inscrutably — incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable.
  • insculpture — an inscription or carving
  • insectarium — a place in which a collection of living insects is kept, as in a zoo.
  • insectifuge — a substance or preparation for driving off insects.
  • insomuch as — to such an extent or degree; so (usually followed by that).
  • insouciance — the quality of being insouciant; lack of care or concern; indifference.
  • instinctual — of, relating to, or of the nature of instinct.
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