12-Letter Words Containing N

Show-off (1975-80)

*Showboating type

Show-off

Graniteware

(Earth Sciences / Geological Science) a coarse-grained acid igneous rock containing almost twice as much plagioclase as orthoclase: intermediate in composition between granite and diorite [from grano + diorite ]

Granulation

Granulocyte

GRANULOCYTE

GRAPHITIZE

GRASPING grasp

GRATEFUL deeply thankful

In a satisfying manner

Gratulation

Gravitation

As in pre-stage make-up (wordplay)

Heard Greece decorates to hide face

Greasiness

""GRECIANIZE To conform to the Greek custom, especially in speech.""

Greediness

""GREENBACKER One of those who supported greenback or paper money, and opposed the resumption of specie payments.""

""GREENBACK One of the legal tender notes of the United States; first issued in 1862, and having the devices on the back printed with green ink, to prevent alterations and counterfeits.""

Seeing French dicky birds

Ecofriendly fellow cautiously moves birds

Produce sellers, in Britain or Australia

GREENGROCER A retailer of vegetables or fruits in their fresh or green state.

GREENISH somewhat green

Greenkeeper

GREENMAILER greenmail

Greenmail

Greenockite

He makes sure the rough isn't too rough

One who uses a stimpmeter

Golf course maintenance person

GRIEVOUS causing grief

""An antibiotic, C 17 H 17 ClO 6 , administered orally for the treatment of ringworm and other fungal infections of the skin, hair, and nails.""

Grisliness

Grittiness

Grogginess

Groundburst

Groundfish

Groundless

Groundmass

Layers beneath kippers of crushed leaves

Groundswell

Groundwater

Growliness

Grubbiness

Sense morgue's developed (wordplay)

Grumpiness

""A drug, C 10 H 22 N 4 , used in the form of its sulfate salt in the treatment of hypertension.""

Putting up as security collateral ahead of one bad result

Paper's joint responsibility

Responsibility for safety of daily transport

Mixed a drug in a vessel, as responsibility for ward

GUILEFUL deceitful

""GUILLOTINE A machine for beheading a person by one stroke of a heavy ax or blade, which slides in vertical guides, is raised by a cord, and let fall upon the neck of the victim.""

Guiltiness

Gunslinging

Gunsmithing

Young vagabonds

""One of a sect of philosophers, said to have been found in India by Alexander the Great, who went almost naked, denied themselves the use of flesh, renounced bodily pleasures, and employed themselves in the contemplation of nature.""

Pl. gynecocracies or gynocracies Government by women.

Gynecology

""The branch of medicine dealing with health care for women, especially the diagnosis and treatment of disorders affecting the female reproductive organs.""

Abnormal enlargement of the breasts in a male.

""Of, relating to, or resulting from the magnetic properties of a spinning, electrically charged particle.""

HABILITATE Qualified or entitled.

Qualification obtained by learner, one in residence

HABITUAL someone who has a habit

Habituation

Haircutting

Putting clothes on after musical going over the top

HAIRLESS without hair

Hairstyling

Thought I used this clue before but I hadn't dreamt it up

Hallucinate

One whose judgment and acts are affected by hallucinations; one who errs on account of his hallucinations.

Enough! Nearly calling off trip on this

Mind-affecting drug

Drug inducing unreal perceptions

Plural or third person singular

An abnormal condition or mental state characterized by hallucination.

HALOGENATE

HALOGENATE HALOGEN a non metallic element

HALTERBROKE

Ethnic triangular treats

Thwarting

Handbreadth

Handcraft

Handedness

Handicapper

Putting at a disadvantage

Horse racing activity

Handicraft

Suit pocket accessory

Thing to sneeze into

Sneeze catcher

Any unit of length based on the breadth of the human hand.

Good looks of workman with quite a head

Handwringer

Handwriting

Handyperson

A happenstance.

Chance expression of disgust about change involving co-star of Oliver!

Fellow writer getting caught out by attitude that wasn't planned

Writer bumping into ten chaps, a peculiar coincidence

Haptoglobin

Harbinger

English word

Parking area for aeroplanes

Surfaced area for parking vehicles

Play by Terence Rattigan

Traditional pantomime episode

Pantomime; buffoonery

HARMLESS not harmful

Harmonical

Harmonicist

Harmonious

German rabbit stew

Rabbit stew

HEADLESS without a head

Sigmund Freud to some (wordplay)

Sigmund Freud to some (wordplay)

Certain analyst, slangily

Causing discontent.

Heartening

Hearthstone

Heartiness

Try being fashionable and moving

Deeply sad tendency in an audience

Direction in trial causing great sadness

They may be tugged at

The human violin section.

They can be tugged at

Rock group around the fire (wordplay)

Gratifying resolution of nightmare war

Making one feel good

In a heathenish manner.

HEATHENIZE To render heathen or heathenish.

The state or quality of being heavenly.

Hebephrenia

Hebephrenic

Dull or lifeless, from the Latin for 'blunt'

""HEBRAIZE to make Hebrew, also HEBRAISE""

Hedgehop

HEEDLESS paying little of no attention

Heldentenor

Revolving around the sun

Revolving round the sun

A person who steers a ship.

Feeling of being unable to manage

Inability to defend oneself

""Pl. hemangiomas also hemangiomata (-m -t ) A benign skin lesion consisting of dense, usually elevated masses of dilated blood vessels.""

Producing blood.

Hematoxylin

Hemerythrin

Noun (-tion)

Hemodynamic

Hemoprotein

HEMORRHAGE Any discharge of blood from the blood vessels.

Hemosiderin

Hemstitch

From now on

Do French wear pants from now on (wordplay)

In future

HENOTHEIST

Passable property of woman to change, possessing boring name

Relating to or based on hereditarianism.

""In the preceding part of this (writing, document, book, etc.).""

""The science of interpretation and explanation; exegesis; esp., that branch of theology which defines the laws whereby the meaning of the Scriptures is to be ascertained.""

""HERRINGBONE Pertaining to, or like, the spine of a herring; especially, characterized by an arrangement of work in rows of parallel lines, which in the alternate rows slope in different directions.""

Herringbone

(Done) with wavering or indecision

(Done) with indecisive pauses

Homeless dental hygienist working in indecisive manner

Heteroauxin

HETERODYNE

Heterogeny

Not from the same source

Heterogony

A cell having two or more genetically different nuclei.

Heteronomy

Subject to external controls

""A winter bud, in which the rudimentary foliage or flower, as of most trees and shrubs in the temperate zone, is protected by closely overlapping scales.""

Hibernation

Hiddenness

Of or relating to hierophants or their teachings.

Showing stress in the air before landing

Animal's rear

Concealed around new accommodation in rear

Posterior

Hippieness

Histaminase

HISTOGEN inferior plant tissue

The formation and development of organic tissues; histogeny; the opposite of histolysis histolysis

Tissueproducing; connected with the formation and development of the organic tissues.

Hoarseness

Hollandaise

Hollowness

Holograph

Holothurian

State of having no fixed abode

Homeliness

Nest ache (wordplay)

Sadness when away

Summer camper's nostalgia

Homestead

""HOMINIZE to alter the environment to conform with evolving man, also HOMINISE""

HOMOGENISE

Homogenizer

""HOMOGENIZE To blend (a collection of unlike elements) together so as to make the whole uniform in character, composition, or function.""

Homoiousian

""HOMOLOGATE To approve; to allow; to confirm; as, the court homologates a proceeding. as, the court homologates a proceeding.""

Process to certify race car's "production" status

HOMOLOGIZE To determine the homologies or structural relations of.

In an homonymous manner; so as to have the same name or relation.

Honeycomb

Nectar-feeding bird

Dear Ralph and Alice (wordplay)

Beloved Ralph and Alice (wordplay)

Classic '50s sitcom (with "The")

On trip with mate, one stops Henry showing too much cheek

Honeysuckle

Abstract noun (-ity)

Hoodedness

Hooliganism

Country songfests

Sing-alongs

Rural shindigs

Feeling of despair

Despondency

Despair

Hopscotch

At a right angle to the vertical

In relation to ground level

Mete out

Hornedness

HORNLESS without horns

I bought a trumpet, but I was...

'I bought a trumpet, but I was...'

Defrauded

Hornswoggle

Or only rushed (anagram)

The state or quality of being horrible; dreadfulness; hideousness.

Horridness

Horrifying

Skill in riding

Well up with it

Hampshire son trained in skilled riding