12-letter words containing un
- break ground — to do something that has not been done before
- bring around — If you bring someone around when they are unconscious, you make them become conscious again.
- brunelleschi — Filippo (fiˈlippo). 1377–1446, Italian architect, whose works in Florence include the dome of the cathedral, the Pazzi chapel of Santa Croce, and the church of San Lorenzo
- bubble under — to remain just beneath a particular level
- buckle under — If you buckle under to a person or a situation, you do what they want you to do, even though you do not want to do it.
- buffet lunch — a lunch at which people stand up and help themselves from the table
- bullet wound — a wound made by a bullet
- bunco artist — a confidence trickster or con artist
- bundle buggy — a shopping cart, usually one owned by the shopper rather than one provided by the store.
- bunny boiler — a person, esp a woman, who is considered to be emotionally unstable and likely to be dangerously vengeful
- bunny rabbit — rabbit
- burial mound — a barrow
- camp lejeune — a U.S. Marine Corps base in SE North Carolina SE of Jacksonville on Onslow Bay.
- cap'n crunch — Captain Crunch
- cape sounion — Cape, a cape in E central Greece, SE of Athens, at the tip of the Attica peninsula, in W Aegean Sea.
- card counter — a casino player who memorizes or records which cards have been played in previous hands in order to calculate the odds on receiving winning cards or combinations from those remaining to be dealt, the practice often being held as illegal.
- carry a tune — to be able to sing in tune
- carunculated — Alternative form of carunculate.
- cash account — an account with a brokerage which stipulates that the client pays in full for any transactions, rather than being extended credit
- catamountain — any of several wildcats, esp. the leopard or the European wildcat
- center punch — a steel punch for marking a spot where a hole is to be drilled
- centre punch — a small steel tool with a conical tip used to punch a small indentation at the location of the centre of a hole to be drilled
- ch'ang ch'un — (Ch'ang Ch'un) 1148–1227, Chinese Taoist philosopher and author.
- ch-ien--lung — (Kao Tsung) 1711–99, Chinese emperor of the Ch'ing dynasty 1736–96.
- change round — to place in or adopt a different or opposite position
- changearound — the act of changing to a different position
- cinnamon bun — a honey bun flavored with cinnamon and often containing raisins.
- cirl bunting — a European passerine bird Emberiza cirlus, of the bunting family Emberizidae
- city council — a municipal body having legislative and administrative powers, such as passing ordinances and appropriating funds.
- civil unrest — Civil unrest is fighting between different groups of people living in the same country, and losses caused by this fighting are usually not covered by insurance.
- closed union — a labor union in which admission of new members is restricted by rigid requirements.
- come running — hurry, rush
- come unglued — If something comes unglued, it becomes separated from the thing that it was attached to.
- come unstuck — If something comes unstuck, it becomes separated from the thing that it was attached to.
- comes around — to approach or move toward a particular person or place: Come here. Don't come any closer!
- communicable — A communicable disease is one that can be passed on to other people.
- communicably — capable of being easily communicated or transmitted: communicable information; a communicable disease.
- communicants — Plural form of communicant.
- communicated — to impart knowledge of; make known: to communicate information; to communicate one's happiness.
- communicatee — a person to whom a communicator communicates
- communicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of communicate.
- communicator — a person who communicates, especially one skilled at conveying information, ideas, or policy to the public.
- communionist — a person with a particular view or interpretation of communion, as specified.
- compound eye — the convex eye of insects and some crustaceans, consisting of numerous separate light-sensitive units (ommatidia)
- compound key — (database) (Or "multi-part key", "concatenated key") A key which consists of more than one attribute of the body of information (e.g. database "record") it identifies.
- compoundable — That can be compounded.
- compunctions — Plural form of compunction.
- compunctious — causing or feeling compunction; regretful.
- comunication — Misspelling of communication.
- confoundedly — bewildered; confused; perplexed.