12-letter words that end in n
- country-born — born in the country
- countrywoman — A countrywoman is a woman who lives in the country rather than in a city or a town.
- countrywomen — Plural form of countrywoman.
- coup de main — an attack that achieves complete surprise
- court action — a legal action
- craftsperson — an artisan
- crassulacean — as in crassulacean acid metabolism, a method of photosynthesis
- credit union — A credit union is a financial institution that offers its members low-interest loans.
- crenellation — to furnish with crenels or battlements.
- creolization — (of a pidgin language) the process of becoming a creole
- croquet lawn — a lawn where croquet is played
- cross cousin — a cousin who is the child of one's father's sister or one's mother's brother
- cross-action — an action brought within the same lawsuit by one defendant against another defendant or against the plaintiff.
- cross-cousin — a cousin who is the child either of one's mother's brother or one's father's sister.
- crucifiction — Misspelling of crucifixion.
- cryoglobulin — an abnormal immunoglobulin, present in the blood in certain diseases, that precipitates below about 10°C, obstructing small blood vessels in the fingers and toes
- cryoplankton — minute organisms, esp algae, living in ice, snow, or icy water
- cryptogamian — of or relating to cryptogams
- curling iron — A curling iron is a metal device, resembling scissors, that you heat and use to form curls in your hair.
- cutinization — a process in which the outermost plant cells become thickened and covered with cutin, making them waterproof
- cyclodextrin — any of a group of cyclic oligosaccharides found in starch digests of certain bacteria
- cytochalasin — any of a group of metabolites derived from fungus that interfere with cell processes
- cytoskeleton — a network of fibrous proteins that governs the shape and movement of a biological cell
- dactinomycin — a cytotoxic polypeptide, C 62 H 86 N 12 O 16 , isolated from the bacterium Streptomyces parvullus, used in the treatment of certain cancers.
- dail eireann — (in the Republic of Ireland) the lower chamber of parliament
- dark lantern — a lantern having a sliding shutter or panel to dim or hide the light
- de-accession — to remove (an item) from a museum or library collection preparatory to selling it
- de-evolution — any process of formation or growth; development: the evolution of a language; the evolution of the airplane.
- deactivation — The act of deactivating something, such as a bomb.
- deallocation — the act of allocating; apportionment.
- deaspiration — the act of deaspirating
- debilitation — to make weak or feeble; enfeeble: The siege of pneumonia debilitated her completely.
- decapitation — to cut off the head of; behead: Many people were decapitated during the French Revolution.
- deceleration — to decrease the velocity of: He decelerates the bobsled when he nears a curve.
- decentration — The removal of something from a centre.
- decoloration — appearance with regard to color arrangement or use of colors; coloring: the bold coloration of some birds.
- decommission — When something such as a nuclear reactor or a large machine is decommissioned, it is taken to pieces because it is no longer going to be used.
- decongestion — the act of decongesting
- decrustation — the act of removing a crust
- decumulation — a decrease in amount or value
- deepwaterman — a ship that goes far out to sea and into deep water
- deexcitation — to cause (an atom) to fall from an excited energy level to a lower energy level.
- deflagration — Deflagration is an explosion in which the speed of burning is lower than the speed of sound in the surroundings.
- defraudation — (obsolete) The act of defrauding; a taking by fraud.
- degemination — (phonetics, uncountable) inverse process of gemination, when a spoken long consonant is pronounced for an audibly shorter period.
- degeneration — the process of degenerating
- deglaciation — the process of removing glaciation
- deindexation — the state of being no longer index-linked
- deionization — to remove ions from.
- delamination — separation into layers