12-letter words containing un
- noncommunity — not part of, related to, or owned by a community
- nonmunicipal — Not municipal.
- nonredundant — not redundant
- nonunanimous — not unanimous
- nonunionised — Alternative spelling of nonunionized.
- nonunionized — Not belonging to or recognizing a labor union.
- nonuniversal — Not universal.
- nonvoluntary — done, made, brought about, undertaken, etc., of one's own accord or by free choice: a voluntary contribution.
- nootka sound — an inlet of the Pacific Ocean, inside Nootka Island on the W coast of Vancouver Island, SW British Columbia, Canada.
- norton sound — an arm of the Bering Sea on the W coast of Alaska, S of the Seward Peninsula. About 150 miles (240 km) long and 125 miles (200 km) wide.
- not counting — excluding
- notoungulate — one of the herbivorous, hoofed mammals of the extinct order Notoungulata, best known from the Paleocene to the Pleistocene Epochs of South America.
- noun adjunct — a noun that occurs before and modifies another noun, as toy in toy store or tour in tour group.
- nun's fiddle — trumpet marine.
- oda nobunaga — 1534–82, Japanese general and feudal leader, who unified much of Japan under his control: assassinated
- odd-sounding — sounding or seeming strange or unusual
- olap council — (body, standard) A body formed in early 1995 to work on a cross-product API for OLAP. After little success it was replaced by the Analytical Solutions Forum.
- on soundings — in waters less than 100 fathoms in depth
- open account — current account (def 1).
- opportunists — Plural form of opportunist.
- order around — be bossy towards
- out of round — not having perfect roundness
- out to lunch — a light midday meal between breakfast and dinner; luncheon.
- out-of-round — not perfectly round.
- over-running — to rove over (a country, region, etc.); invade; ravage: a time when looting hordes had overrun the province.
- overabundant — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
- overdiscount — to discount excessively
- p-n junction — a boundary between a p-type and n-type semiconductor that functions as a rectifier and is used in diodes and junction transistors
- pack a punch — be powerful
- packed lunch — A packed lunch is food, for example sandwiches, which you take to work, to school, or on a trip and eat as your lunch.
- pama-nyungan — a family of Australian aboriginal languages, the most widespread within the Australian group of languages.
- papal nuncio — someone, such as an archbishop, who is a state's representative of or ambassador to the Pope
- passive noun — a noun whose referent is the recipient of an action, as trainee, multiplicand.
- pedunculated — having a peduncle.
- pension fund — a fund created and maintained, as by a corporation, to provide benefits under a pension plan.
- pfund series — a series of lines in the infrared spectrum of hydrogen.
- phi-function — Euler's phi-function.
- picnic lunch — a meal that you take and eat outdoors
- pig launcher — A pig launcher is a device which starts a pig moving without interrupting flow.
- pinch runner — a player sent into a game to replace a base runner.
- plunge basin — a cavity at the base of a falls or cataract, formed by the action of the falling water.
- plunket baby — a baby brought up in infancy under the dietary recommendations of the Plunket Society
- pollen count — a count of the amount of pollen in the air, based on the average of the number of pollen grains that collect on slides exposed to the air for a given period of time.
- ponce around — If you say that someone is poncing around or poncing about, you mean that they are not doing something properly, quickly, or seriously.
- port running — an evasive action at a port of entry in which a person drives through a vehicle-stopping point.
- postal union — an international agreement on postal rates and services.
- pre-discount — to deduct a certain amount from (a bill, charge, etc.): All bills that are paid promptly will be discounted at two percent.
- preannounced — to make known publicly or officially; proclaim; give notice of: to announce a special sale.
- press launch — the launch of a product, exhibition, event, etc, to which journalists are invited, in order to publicize it
- print unions — the trade unions within the printing industry