11-letter words containing a, n, u
- allocutions — Plural form of allocution.
- allopurinol — a synthetic drug that reduces blood concentrations of uric acid and is administered orally in the treatment of gout. Formula: C5H4N4O
- allurements — Plural form of allurement.
- alt.country — a genre of country music originating in the 1990s and influenced by both early country music and contemporary rock music
- altiloquent — (of language) high-flown or pretentious.
- altitudinal — relating to altitude or height.
- ambiguating — Present participle of ambiguate.
- ambiguation — Act of ambiguating.
- ambuscading — Present participle of ambuscade.
- amentaceous — of or like an ament or aments
- amino group — the univalent group, −NH 2 .
- amino-sugar — a monosaccharide with an amino or substituted amino group in place of a nonglycosidic hydroxyl group.
- aminobutene — a synthetic pain-relieving drug
- ammunitions — the material fired, scattered, dropped, or detonated from any weapon, as bombs or rockets, and especially shot, shrapnel, bullets, or shells fired by guns.
- amorousness — inclined or disposed to love, especially sexual love: an amorous disposition.
- ampere-turn — a unit of magnetomotive force; the magnetomotive force produced by a current of 1 ampere passing through one complete turn of a coil. 1 ampere-turn is equivalent to 4π/10 or 1.257 gilberts
- amphigenous — (of certain parasitic fungi) growing on both sides of leaves.
- amphithuron — amphithyra (def 1).
- amputations — Plural form of amputation.
- amusingness — the quality or state of being amusing
- amusiveness — the quality of being amusive
- anacanthous — having no spines or thorns.
- anachronous — relating to anachronism; misplaced chronologically
- anacoloutha — Plural form of anacolouthon.
- anacoluthia — lack of grammatical sequence, esp within a single sentence
- anacoluthic — Of, pertaining to, being, or resembling an anacoluthon.
- anacoluthon — a construction that involves the change from one grammatical sequence to another within a single sentence; an example of anacoluthia
- analogously — having analogy; corresponding in some particular: A brain and a computer are analogous.
- anamorphous — lacking a clear or definite form
- anchor buoy — a buoy used to indicate the location of an underwater anchor.
- and circuit — a logic circuit having two or more input wires and one output wire that has a high-voltage output signal if and only if all input signals are at a high voltage simultaneously: used extensively as a basic circuit in computers
- androconium — a scale on the forewing of certain male butterflies from which an odor attractive to females is emitted.
- androgenous — producing only male offspring
- androgynous — In biology, an androgynous person, animal, or plant has both male and female sexual characteristics.
- anfractuous — characterized by twists and turns; convoluted
- angiomatous — a benign tumor consisting chiefly of dilated or newly formed blood vessels (hemangioma) or lymph vessels (lymphangioma)
- anguishment — Anguish.
- animalcular — Of, relating to, or resembling, animalcules.
- animalcules — Plural form of animalcule.
- animalculum — animalcule.
- anisogamous — reproducing by the fusion of dissimilar gametes or individuals, usually differing in size.
- anisomerous — (of flowers) having floral whorls that differ in the number of their parts
- annonaceous — belonging to the plant family Annonaceae.
- annual ring — a ring of wood indicating one year's growth, seen in the transverse section of stems and roots of woody plants growing in temperate climates
- annual wage — a provision in a contract with an employer guaranteeing the employee a minimum income or work over a period of one year.
- annulations — Plural form of annulation.
- annunciated — Simple past tense and past participle of annunciate.
- annunciates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of annunciate.
- annunciator — a device that gives a visual indication as to which of a number of electric circuits has operated, such as an indicator in a hotel showing in which room a bell has been rung
- anomalously — deviating from or inconsistent with the common order, form, or rule; irregular; abnormal: Advanced forms of life may be anomalous in the universe.