12-letter words that end in n
- trucial oman — a former name of United Arab Emirates.
- trunk piston — a piston with a long skirt to take the side thrust, as in an automobile engine.
- trustafarian — a young person from a wealthy background whose trust fund enables him or her to eschew conventional attitudes to work, dress, drug taking, etc
- tube station — an underground station where underground trains depart and leave, esp in London
- tumultuation — a tumultuous state or the act of creating a tumult
- turacoverdin — a green pigment found in certain feathers of the touraco
- turbellarian — belonging to the Turbellaria, a class of platyhelminths or flatworms, mostly aquatic and having cilia on the body surface.
- turkey brown — an angler's name for a species of mayfly, Paraleptophlebia submarginata
- turkmenistan — a republic in central in Asia, bordering the Caspian Sea, Iran, and Afghanistan. 188,417 sq. mi. (488,000 sq. km). Capital: Ashkhabad.
- twenty-seven — a cardinal number, 20 plus 7.
- type section — the sequence of strata referred to in establishing a stratigraphic unit, as a member or formation.
- typification — to serve as a typical example of; exemplify.
- ubermenschen — superman (def 2).
- ubiquitarian — of or relating to the doctrine, especially as advocated by Luther, that the body of Christ is omnipresent and therefore exists in the Eucharistic bread.
- umbilication — a central navellike depression.
- uncompassion — a feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow for another who is stricken by misfortune, accompanied by a strong desire to alleviate the suffering.
- uncount noun — An uncount noun is a noun such as 'gold', 'information', or 'furniture' which has only one form and can be used without a determiner.
- under-design — to prepare the preliminary sketch or the plans for (a work to be executed), especially to plan the form and structure of: to design a new bridge.
- underpassion — an underlying or subconscious passion
- underwritten — past participle of underwrite.
- unearned run — a run scored as the result of defensive errors.
- unionization — to form into a union.
- unoverthrown — not overthrown
- unperfection — imperfection
- unsaturation — not saturated; having the power to dissolve still more of a substance.
- urbanisation — the act or fact of urbanizing, or taking on the characteristics of a city: Urbanization has led to more air pollution and increasing childhood asthma.
- urbanization — the act or fact of urbanizing, or taking on the characteristics of a city: Urbanization has led to more air pollution and increasing childhood asthma.
- urobilinogen — a colourless substance produced by bacterial degradation of the bile pigment bilirubin in the intestine and which produces urobilin when oxidized
- valle-inclán — Rámon María del (raˈmɔn maˈria del). 1866–1936, Spanish novelist and dramatist. His works include the novel Tirano Banderas (1926) and the satirical play Don Friolera's Horns (1925)
- valorization — to provide for the maintaining of the value or price of (a commercial commodity) by a government's purchasing the commodity at the fixed price or by its making special loans to the producers.
- vanilla bean — any tropical, climbing orchid of the genus Vanilla, especially V. planifolia, bearing podlike fruit yielding an extract used in flavoring food, in perfumery, etc.
- vanilla-bean — any tropical, climbing orchid of the genus Vanilla, especially V. planifolia, bearing podlike fruit yielding an extract used in flavoring food, in perfumery, etc.
- vaporization — the act of vaporizing.
- variety turn — an act in a variety show
- vasodilation — dilatation of the blood vessels, as by the action of a nerve.
- vasoligation — ligation of the vas deferens.
- vaticination — an act of prophesying.
- vaudevillian — Also, vaudevillist. a person who writes for or performs in vaudeville.
- vector boson — one of the three particles that are believed to transmit the weak force: the positively charged W particle, the negatively charged W particle, and the neutral Z 0 particle.
- velarization — to pronounce with velar articulation.
- velocipedean — someone who rides a velocipede
- vereshchagin — Vasili Vasilievich [vuh-syee-lyee vuh-syee-lyi-vyich] /vʌˈsyi lyi vʌˈsyi lyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1842–1904, Russian painter.
- verification — the act of verifying.
- vertebration — vertebrate formation.
- vesiculation — characterized by or covered with vesicles.
- vespertilian — of, relating to, or resembling a bat
- veterinarian — a person who practices veterinary medicine or surgery.
- vice-captain — a person who deputizes for a captain and serves in his or her place during his or her absence or indisposition
- video screen — screen (def 5).
- vigee-lebrun — (Marie Anne) Élisabeth [ma-ree an ey-lee-za-bet] /maˈri an eɪ li zaˈbɛt/ (Show IPA), 1755–1842, French painter.