12-Letter Words Containing U

Autotrophy

(Chemistry) Chem a.   oxidation by exposure to atmospheric oxygen

Auxotrophy

In a greedy way

AVASCULAR

AVICULTURE Rearing and care of birds.

AVUNCULAR Of or pertaining to an uncle.

English word

BACKCOURT

Background

Background

Bacteriuria

Bankruptcy

Drugs that could make a star tubbier

Barquentine

Barrelhouse

Baserunning

Action station (wordplay)

Bull Run, for one.

Place of military encounter

Beardtongue

Becudgel

Noun (-ment)

Beglamour

Begrudging

Beguilement

Beleaguer

BIBULOUS addicted to strong drink

""FUNCTIONAL Pertaining to, or connected with, a function or duty; official.""

Bifurcation

Quality of being bilingual.

BINOCULAR Having two eyes.

""(used with a sing. verb) The study of sounds produced by or affecting living organisms, especially those sounds involved in communication.""

English word

Biomolecule

Biquadratic

""BITUMINIZE To prepare, treat, impregnate, or coat with bitumen.""

Inflected form of UNIQUENESS Inflected form of UNIQUE something that is rare or the only one of its kind

B2B opportunity for a gossip (wordplay)

... yaks, yaks, yaks ...

... yaks, yaks, yaks ..

Blackguard

In the manner of or resembling a blackguard; abusive; scurrilous; ruffianly.

Blastulate

BLISSFUL very happy

Very successful movies

They're created only if many people see them

Megahits

Blockbust

Parasites

Like mosquitoes

Blueprint

Luck begins to change intellectual

Woman having literary interests

Type of egghead.

Bluishness

In a blundering manner.

Blurriness

In a blustering manner.

Braggadocio

Harland and Wolff made at least one more than Noah presumably

Navy yard activity

Lots of DNA found in gym

Where to get a full physical (wordplay)

Pastime I'd ignobly dub 'freakish'

Weightlifter's practice

Oboist surely played loudly and exuberantly

Member of the smart set.

Man-about-town in Paris

Bourgeoisie

""BOURGEOISIE The French middle class, particularly such as are concerned in, or dependent on, trade.""

Boutonniere

Important development (eg in research)

Progress? Leave over!

Make a sudden advance

Breechclout

Bromouracil

Type of ranch hand

Tamer of wild horses

Cowboy, at times

Prehistoric thunderer (wordplay)

Prehistoric beast (thunder lizard)

Dinosaur with a long neck and tail

Abstract noun (-ity)

Bryophyllum

Bubblehead

Buccaneer

Like a buccaneer; piratical.

English word

Buffoonery

Bullbaiting

Bulldogging

BULLFIGHTER bullfight

Papal edict against brawling fiesta in Pamplona

Bullheaded

Bullmastiff

Bullterrier

Bullwhip

Bullyrag

Bumbershoot

Bunchberry

Bunchgrass

BUREAUCRAT An official of a bureau; esp. an official confirmed in a narrow and arbitrary routine.

BURGLARIZE

Able to keep thieves out

Burgomaster

Bushranging

Guerillas

""Traveling, or working a way, through bushes; pulling by the bushes, as in hauling a boat along the bushy margin of a stream.""

Professional with racket has something to admire

Professional

My preferred transport conveys head, being efficient

Butterfish

BUTTERFLYER butterfly

Butterfly

Sweet goat from Scotland (wordplay)

Sweet bishop, say, having whisky

Foreign flavor (wordplay)

Buttonbush

Buttonholer

Accosting and detaining (someone)

Buttonhook

Cadaverous

Calamitous

Calcareous

Calculated

Estimates

Californium

""CALUMNIATE To accuse falsely and maliciously of a crime or offense, or of something disreputable; to slander; to libel.""

""False accusation of crime or offense, or a malicious and false representation of the words or actions of another, with a view to injure his good name.""

Calumniator

Calumnious

CAMOUFLAGE

Candelabrum

Candidature

The quality of being musical.

Ratty makes sure a knot can be undone

Wrongful Korean acts - UN peevish

Contrary and quarrelsome

Capitulary

""CAPITULATE To settle or draw up the heads or terms of an agreement, as in chapters or articles; to agree.""

Natural environment

Surrender

Capricious

Captious disposition or manner.

""Pertaining to, containing, or composed of, carbon.""

Carburetion

Carburetter

Carburet

Carburettor

""CARICATURE An exaggeration, or distortion by exaggeration, of parts or characteristics, as in a picture.""

USA art critic (anagram)

A curt satiric version from Cruikshank

Artist producing comic portraits

'Ringer' vehicle ailing on climbing trip round head of Eskdale

Casualness

""The cry of cats; a harsh, disagreeable noise or cry like the cry of cats.""

Caudillismo

Cauliflower

Causticity

Prudence, wariness

Plural or third person singular

""CELLULITIS An inflammantion of the cellular or areolar tissue, esp. of that lying immediately beneath the skin.""

""Of, relating to, or causing the hydrolysis of cellulose: cellulolytic organisms.""

Of the nature of cement.

Critically, I curse so only when upset

Centrifugal

""CENTRIFUGE an apparatus having containers for liquids arrayed around a central pivot and rotated at a high speed, thus generating centrifugal force on the liquid, and separating substances (such as particles of solid or globules of an immiscible liquid) mixed together in suspension within the liquid. Suspensions which would settle only very slowly or not at all under gravity can be made to separate quickly in such a device.centrifugal force on the liquid, and separating substances (such as particles of solid or globules of an immiscible liquid) mixed together in suspension within the liquid. Suspensions which would settle only very slowly or not at all under gravity can be made to separate quickly in such a device.""

""CHARACTER A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol.""

Charcuterie

Chartulary

Chauffeur

Chaulmoogra

Exaggeratedly patriotic

Aggressively patriotic

Having an aggressive or fanatical patriotism

Cheerful

State of Blithe Spirit

Fast food - begs cure here (anagram)

Lunch-counter specialty.

Fast food product

""Selective destruction of tissue by use of chemicals, as for removing malignant skin lesions.""

Cherubical

Chiaroscuro

In a chivalrous manner; gallantly; magnanimously.

Chloroquine

Chubbiness

Chuckawalla

Chucklehead

Chugalug

Chumminess

Churchgoing

Abstract noun (-ity)

Regard for the church.

Parish officer - long-stemmed pipe

Long-stemmed clay pipe

Pipe officer

Rudeness of manners or temper; lack of kindness or courtesy.

It may showcase art films

Cinquecento

Circuitous

CIRCULARISE

Circularise

CIRCULARIZE

Circularize

CIRCULAR a leaflet

""CIRCULATE To move in a circle or circuitously; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body. as, the blood circulates in the body.""

Circulation

The center of a circle that circumscribes a triangle.

English word

Circumciser

""CIRCUMCISE To cut off the prepuce of foreskin of, in the case of males, and the internal labia of, in the case of females.""

""The act of cutting off the prepuce or foreskin of males, or the internal labia of females.""

Circumflex

Flowing around or surrounding.

Flowing round; surrounding in the manner of a fluid.

CIRCUMFUSE To pour round; to spread round.

The act of pouring or spreading round; the state of being spread round.

Lying round; borderong on every side.

Confine within limited range

Restrict; draw round

Draw a line around

Pomp and - (Elgar)

Ceremony; attendant fact

Ceremony; an attendant fact

Circumvent

High-altitude cloud

High-altitude cloud forming a broken layer

See under Cloud. Cloud.

The cultivation of citrus fruits.

""Pertaining to, or characterized by, clairaudience.""

Clangorous

A halting or limping.

CLIQUISH {cliquey=adj}

Smooth clue set: hollow-eyed and tight-lipped

... M-U-T-E

Reticent

Cloudberry

Cloudiness