12-letter words containing un
- countrywoman — A countrywoman is a woman who lives in the country rather than in a city or a town.
- countrywomen — Plural form of countrywoman.
- county agent — a government employee who gives advice on agriculture in a rural area
- county board — the governing body of a U.S. county consisting usually of three or more elected members.
- county clerk — a senior local government official
- county court — A county court is a local court which deals with private disputes between people, but does not deal with serious crimes.
- cover ground — to move or traverse a certain distance
- crater mound — huge, circular depression in central Ariz., believed to have been made by a meteorite: depth, 600 ft (183 m); diameter, 0.75 mi (1.2 km)
- credit union — A credit union is a financial institution that offers its members low-interest loans.
- crowdfunding — Crowdfunding is when a large number of people each give an amount of money to pay for a project, especially by using a website to collect the money.
- cunctipotent — (obsolete) almighty; all-powerful.
- cuneiformist — a person who studies or deciphers cuneiform writing.
- cunnilinctus — the act or practice of orally stimulating the female genitals.
- cunnilingist — Alt form cunnilinguist.
- cycle crunch — (jargon) A situation wherein the number of people trying to use a computer simultaneously has reached the point where no one can get enough cycles because they are spread too thin and the system has probably begun to thrash. This scenario is an inevitable result of Parkinson's Law applied to time-sharing. Usually the only solution is to buy more computer. Happily, this has rapidly become easier since the mid-1980s, so much so that the very term "cycle crunch" now has a faintly archaic flavour; most hackers now use workstations or personal computers as opposed to traditional time-sharing systems.
- dak bungalow — (in India, formerly) a house where travellers on a dak route could be accommodated
- dame fortune — the personification of fortune as a woman
- dauntingness — to overcome with fear; intimidate: to daunt one's adversaries.
- de profundis — out of the depths of misery or dejection
- dead account — an account that is no longer being used and on which no transactions have taken place for a considerable length of time
- decommunized — Simple past tense and past participle of decommunize.
- decompounded — Simple past tense and past participle of decompound.
- deli counter — a display case in a delicatessen, or one in a supermarket that sells delicatessen
- denouncement — to condemn or censure openly or publicly: to denounce a politician as morally corrupt.
- denunciation — Denunciation of someone or something is severe public criticism of them.
- denunciative — Denunciatory.
- denunciatory — characterized by or given to denunciation.
- derived unit — a unit of measurement obtained by multiplication or division of the base units of a system without the introduction of numerical factors
- devil's dung — asafetida.
- difunctional — Bifunctional.
- discommunity — a lack of community
- discountable — That can be discounted (in all senses).
- disgruntedly — In a disgruntled manner.
- disgruntling — Present participle of disgruntle.
- disjunctions — Plural form of disjunction.
- disjunctives — Plural form of disjunctive.
- disjunctures — Plural form of disjuncture.
- distress gun — a gun fired at one-minute intervals as a signal of distress.
- drug-running — the activity of illegally taking recreational drugs into a country
- drunk driver — A drunk driver is someone who drives after drinking more than the amount of alcohol that is legally allowed.
- dry mounting — the technique of fastening a print, photograph, or the like to a board by using a heated thermoplastic tissue as an adhesive.
- dumbfounding — Present participle of dumbfound.
- duncan phyfe — of, relating to, or resembling the furniture made by Duncan Phyfe, especially the earlier pieces in the Sheraton and Directoire styles.
- duncan smith — (George) Iain. born 1954, British politician; leader of the Conservative Party (2001–03); secretary of state for work and pensions (2010–2016)
- dunderheaded — Stupid, foolish.
- dunny budgie — a blowfly
- dust counter — any instrument used to measure the size and number of dust particles per unit volume in the atmosphere.
- dysfunctions — Plural form of dysfunction.
- easter bunny — rabbit: brings chocolate eggs
- echo sounder — a sonar instrument that uses echolocation to measure depths under water.