12-letter words containing o, u, t, r, a, n
- granuloblast — an immature granulocyte.
- granulocytes — Plural form of granulocyte.
- granulocytic — Of, or pertaining to, granulocytes.
- gratulations — a feeling of joy.
- ground alert — the state of waiting for orders in or near combat airplanes ready to take to the air at once.
- ground fault — the momentary, usually accidental, grounding of a conducting wire.
- ground plate — Electricity. a metal plate for making a ground connection to the earth.
- ground staff — The people who are paid to maintain a sports ground are called the ground staff.
- ground state — the state of least energy of a particle, as an atom, or of a system of particles.
- ground track — the path on the earth's surface below an aircraft, missile, rocket, or spacecraft.
- ground water — the water beneath the surface of the ground, consisting largely of surface water that has seeped down: the source of water in springs and wells.
- gut reaction — instinctive response
- gutturonasal — articulated in the back of the mouth and given resonance in the nasal cavity, as the sound represented by (ng) in (ring).
- gynantherous — having the stamens converted into pistils by the action of frost, disease, or insects.
- hallucinator — One whose judgment and acts are affected by hallucinations; one who errs on account of his hallucinations.
- harmoniumist — a person who plays a harmonium
- herpetofauna — the reptiles and amphibians that inhabit a given area
- heteroousian — a person who believes the Father and the Son to be unlike in substance or essence; an Arian (opposed to Homoousian).
- hippocentaur — Centaur.
- holothurians — Plural form of holothurian.
- house martin — a small European swallow, Delichon urbica, that builds its nest under the eaves of houses.
- housepainter — A professional painter of houses.
- housetrained — Simple past tense and past participle of housetrain.
- hydronautics — (nautical) The science of the design and construction of ships, their engines, and their instrumentation.
- illuminators — Plural form of illuminator.
- illuminatory — Increasing informative qualities; explanatory.
- illustration — something that illustrates, as a picture in a book or magazine.
- in-and-outer — a person who is by turns in and out of a particular situation, condition, venture, investment, etc.
- inauguration — an act or ceremony of inaugurating.
- inauguratory — Inaugural; being the first instance.
- incrustation — an incrusting or being incrusted.
- infraduction — (medicine) The turning downward of a part, especially of the eye.
- inhalatorium — a room or building in which vapours are breathed in
- inoperculate — having no operculum.
- inquartation — (in assaying) the addition of silver to a gold-silver alloy in order to facilitate the parting of the gold by nitric acid.
- instauration — renewal; restoration; renovation; repair.
- interacinous — situated between the acini of a gland or lung.
- interlobular — (anatomy) Between lobules.
- interlocular — having one or more locules.
- interspousal — Often, spousals. the ceremony of marriage; nuptials.
- intraosseous — (medicine) within a bone.
- intraveneous — Misspelling of intravenous.
- iron curtain — (sometimes initial capital letters) a barrier to understanding and the exchange of information and ideas created by ideological, political, and military hostility of one country toward another, especially such a barrier between the Soviet Union and its allies and other countries.
- iron sulfate — ferrous sulfate.
- isosthenuria — the inability of the kidneys to dilute or concentrate urine
- joint author — a person who shares the writing of a book, article, etc, with another
- journalistic — of, relating to, or characteristic of journalists or journalism.
- k/t boundary — Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary: the time zone comprising the end of the Cretaceous and the beginning of the Tertiary periods
- keratogenous — producing horn or a horny substance.
- last honours — observances of respect at a funeral