12-letter words containing n, a, f, u
- glandiferous — bearing nuts or acorns
- gracefulness — The state of being graceful.
- gratefulness — warmly or deeply appreciative of kindness or benefits received; thankful: I am grateful to you for your help.
- ground fault — the momentary, usually accidental, grounding of a conducting wire.
- ground staff — The people who are paid to maintain a sports ground are called the ground staff.
- gulf of aden — a waterway in the Arabian sea between Yemen and Somalia and connecting with the Red Sea
- gulf of oman — a strait that ultimately links the Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf
- gut of canso — Canso (def 2).
- half an hour — 30 minutes
- half-century — a period of 100 years.
- half-turning — split spindle.
- heartfulness — The state or quality of being heartful.
- herpetofauna — the reptiles and amphibians that inhabit a given area
- highfaluting — pompous; bombastic; haughty; pretentious.
- hohenstaufen — a member of the royal family that ruled in Germany from 1138 to 1208 and from 1215 to 1254, and in Sicily from 1194 to 1266.
- hua guo feng — 1921–2008, Chinese Communist statesman; prime minister of China 1976–80
- huffman code — Huffman coding
- human safari — an organized tour that takes tourists to unfamiliar places where they can observe the lifestyle of indigenous or other local people: human safaris to remote tribal communities; a human safari through the slums of Mumbai.
- humification — the formation of humus.
- ichthyofauna — the indigenous fish of a region.
- ignis fatuus — Also called friar's lantern, will-o'-the-wisp. a flitting phosphorescent light seen at night, chiefly over marshy ground, and believed to be due to spontaneous combustion of gas from decomposed organic matter.
- in a flutter — agitated, flustered
- in favour of — If one thing is rejected in favour of another, the second thing is done or chosen instead of the first.
- in spadefuls — in an extreme or emphatic way
- in your face — involving confrontation; defiant; provocative.
- in-your-face — involving confrontation; defiant; provocative.
- inconfutable — (obsolete) Not confutable.
- infamousness — The state or quality of being infamous; infamy.
- infatuations — Plural form of infatuation.
- infibulation — the stitching together of the vulva, often after a clitoridectomy, leaving a small opening for the passage of urine and menstrual blood.
- influentials — Plural form of influential.
- infraduction — (medicine) The turning downward of a part, especially of the eye.
- infundibular — a funnel-shaped organ or part.
- ink fountain — the part of a printing press that stores ink and feeds it to the rollers.
- insufferable — not to be endured; intolerable; unbearable: their insufferable insolence.
- insufferably — not to be endured; intolerable; unbearable: their insufferable insolence.
- insufflation — to blow or breathe (something) in.
- interfaculty — an ability, natural or acquired, for a particular kind of action: a faculty for making friends easily.
- iron sulfate — ferrous sulfate.
- juan de fuca — a strait between Vancouver Island and NW Washington. 100 miles (160 km) long; 15–20 miles (24–32 km) wide.
- jury foreman — a member of a jury in a court of law who is chosen by the other members to act as spokesperson for the jury
- juventa fons — an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars, appearing as a dark region when viewed through a telescope.
- latifundista — the owner of a latifundio in Latin America or Spain.
- life annuity — any annuity that is contingent upon the survival of the annuitant or annuitants, especially an annuity that terminates with the death of a single annuitant.
- liquefacient — something that liquefies or promotes liquefaction.
- liquefaction — the act or process of liquefying or making liquid.
- loathfulness — (rare) The condition of being loathful; reluctance.
- ludwigshafen — a city in SW Germany, on the Rhine opposite Mannheim.
- malfunctions — Plural form of malfunction.
- manufactural — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.