12-letter words containing nuc
- anti-nuclear — opposed to military and industrial applications of nuclear energy and to technologies which produce radioactive waste products
- antinucleons — Plural form of antinucleon.
- bare-knuckle — without boxing gloves
- denuclearize — to deprive (a country, state, etc) of nuclear weapons
- dinucleotide — a molecule composed of two nucleotide subunits.
- endonuclease — An enzyme that cleaves a polynucleotide chain by separating nucleotides other than the two end ones.
- eunuchoidism — A syndrome in males with a lack of sex characteristics due to lack of proper male sex hormones.
- exonucleases — Plural form of exonuclease.
- extranuclear — situated or occurring in part of a cell outside the nucleus
- internuclear — pertaining to or involving atomic weapons: nuclear war.
- internucleon — internuclear
- intranuclear — existing or taking place within a nucleus.
- knuckle ball — a slow pitch that moves erratically toward home plate, usually delivered by holding the ball between the thumb and the knuckles of the first joints of the first two or three fingers.
- knuckle down — a joint of a finger, especially one of the articulations of a metacarpal with a phalanx.
- knuckleballs — Plural form of knuckleball.
- knucklebones — (in humans) any of the bones forming a knuckle of a finger.
- knuckleheads — Plural form of knucklehead.
- macronuclear — Of or pertaining to a macronucleus.
- macronucleus — the larger of the two types of nuclei occurring in ciliate protozoans, having a multiple set of chromosomes and functioning in cell metabolism and protein synthesis.
- micronucleus — the smaller of the two types of nuclei occurring in ciliate protozoans.
- multinuclear — pertaining to or involving atomic weapons: nuclear war.
- nonnucleated — having no nucleus
- nuclear bomb — atomic explosive
- nuclear fuel — Physics. fissile or fertile material that undergoes fission in a nuclear reactor.
- nuclear test — a test carried out on a nuclear weapon to determine effectiveness, etc
- nuclear-free — A nuclear-free place is a place where nuclear energy or nuclear weapons are forbidden.
- nucleic acid — any of a group of long, linear macromolecules, either DNA or various types of RNA, that carry genetic information directing all cellular functions: composed of linked nucleotides.
- nucleocapsid — the nucleic acid core and surrounding capsid of a virus; the basic viral structure.
- nucleophiles — Plural form of nucleophile.
- nucleophilic — of or relating to electron contribution in covalent bonding (opposed to electrophilic).
- nucleosidase — any of the class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of nucleosides.
- nucleotidase — a biochemical catalyst that facilitates the process of hydrolyzing or splitting a nucleotide and turning it into a phosphate and a nucleoside
- photonuclear — of, relating to, or caused by the collision of high-energy photons with the nucleus of an atom.
- polynucleate — having many nuclei.
- post-nuclear — pertaining to or involving atomic weapons: nuclear war.
- radionuclide — a radioactive nuclide.
- ribonuclease — any of the class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of RNA.
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