12-Letter Words Containing U

Adjective (-ic)

FLUORINATE

""FLUORINATE FLUORINE a gaseous element, also FLUORIN""

Compound of only elements F and C

Compound of C and F atoms

Compound such as PTFE

Any of various fluorescent substances used in fluorescence microscopy to stain specimens.

See photofluorography .

Fluorometer

""Instruments an instrument for measuring the emission of radiation in the form of visible light and identifying the substance that is its source. ; fluorometric,""

FLUOROSCOPE An instrument for observing or exhibiting fluorescence.

Fluoroscope

FLUOROSCOPE An instrument for observing or exhibiting fluorescence.

""An antineoplastic agent, C 4 H 3 FN 2 O 2 , used especially in the treatment of cancers of the skin, breast, and digestive system.""

""A derivative of phenothiazine, C 22 H 26 F 3 N 3 OS, used for the treatment of schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders.""

""(Individual Sports & Recreations / Swimming, Water Sports & Surfing) US and Canadian an oblong board or piece of polystyrene plastic used by swimmers in training or practice Brit word float FRANKALMOIGN (Historical Terms) English legal history a form of tenure by which religious bodies held lands, esp on condition of praying for the soul of the donor [from Anglo-French fraunke almoigne , from fraunke frank + almoign church treasury, alms chest]""

Plural or third person singular

""Inflammation of a follicle, especially of a hair follicle.""

Footfault

Assertive or vigorous quality

Home wreckers in favour of finding love finally for certain in walled vineyard

They take the land back in favour of point-to-point around Cork

Foreground

Bit of a nag and that's the whole thing summed up, so to speak (wordplay)

More than just two legs of quadruped making the whole, we're told

Foresighted.

Forethought

FORMULARIZE To reduce to a forula; to formulate.

FORMULARIZE To reduce to a forula; to formulate.

Formularize

Formulation

By chance

""FOUNDATION The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.""

Make a wish here at beginning of spring

Wellspring (2 words)

Chief source

Fourdrinier

Equipment for #1

Hot dogs

Fraudulence

Deceitfully, dishonestly

The quality of being frequent.

Fruitful

FRUITFUL productive

Fruitiness

Frustration

Fucoxanthin

The quality or condition of being fugitive; evanescence; volatility; fugacity; instability.

Fulfillment

Fulguration

In a smoky manner.

Fulmination

Funambulism

Funambulist

In a functional manner; as regards normal or appropriate activity.

""Destitute of function, or of an appropriate organ. Darwin.""

Amusing lady with unusual slant on basic principles

Fungicidal

English word

Furtherance

Plural or third person singular

A skin condition characterized by the development of recurring boils.

Fusibility

Fustigation

Futileness

Holding or based on the view that human endeavor is futile.

Futurology

Predictor of what is to come

One who forecasts coming developments

Person dealing with the study or prediction for mankind during times to come

Resembling the domestic fowls and pheasants; of or pertaining to the Gallinae.

The formation or production of gametes.

Having the petals united or joined so as to form a tube or cup; monopetalous.

Gastrulate

""The process of invagination, in embryonic development, by which a gastrula is formed.""

Gaucheness

Gelatinous

GENEROUS willing to give

Genuflect

Reverential bending of knee

Knee-bending

Being under high pressure within the earth.

""GESTICULATE To make gestures or motions, as in speaking; to use postures.""

Gesticulate

One who gesticulates.

Having revolting habits means lushes need hosing to be reformed

GLAMOURIZE

GLAUCOUS bluish green

GLORIOUS magnificent

Glucokinase

Glucosamine

Glucosidase

Glucuronide

Glutaminase

Glutathione

""A nonbarbiturate sedative and hypnotic drug, C 13 H 15 NO 2 .""

Gluttonous

Goddaughter

GORGEOUS beautiful

Gourmandise

Gourmandism

GOURMANDIZE

Gourmandize

Graceful

GRACEFUL having beauty of form or movement

Indulgent, elegant, courtesy

Granulation

Granulocyte

GRANULOCYTE

Grateful

GRATEFUL deeply thankful

Gratuitous

Gratulation

How some people socialize

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.""

""A pale green, pink, brown, or black garnet, Ca 3 Al 2 (SiO 4 ) 3 , occurring alone or as a constituent of the common garnet.""

Old king with quotes about a lake cuts a bizarre figure

Groundburst

Groundfish

Groundless

Groundmass

Layers beneath kippers of crushed leaves

Groundswell

Groundwater

Groupuscule

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

""GUESSTIMATE an estimate based on little information, being little better than a guess.""

Less-than-certain totals

Figures in the ballpark

Ballpark figures

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

Guitarfish

Gunslinging

Gunsmithing

Young vagabonds

Gutturalism

HABITUAL someone who has a habit

Habituation

Haircutting

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.

Play by Terence Rattigan

Traditional pantomime episode

Pantomime; buffoonery

Harmonious

Harquebusie

Where to see a psychiatrist (wordplay)

Place for a pirates privy (wordplay)

Military command center (wordplay)

Causing discontent.

Dull or lifeless, from the Latin for 'blunt'

Adjective (-ous)

Hellacious

Producing blood.

Noun (-tion)

""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.""

Heteroauxin

English word

""Spending different stages of a life cycle on different, usually unrelated hosts. Used of parasites such as rust fungi and tapeworms.""

""The condition of having two or more kinds of flowers which differ in regard to stamens and pistils, as in the aster.""

Not from the same source

""Characterized by heterology; consisting of different elements, or of like elements in different proportions; different; opposed to homologous; as, heterologous organs. homologous; as, heterologous organs.""

Subject to external controls

Straight as an arrow, perhaps (wordplay)

Straight

Having different alleles at one or more corresponding chromosomal loci.

""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.""

Animal's rear

Concealed around new accommodation in rear

Posterior

Oppo hams it up (anagram)

Large semi-aquatic mammal

Large African mammal frequenting rivers

Hobblebush

Holothurian

Homoiousian

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

Homosexual

Homozygous

Honeysuckle

Or only rushed (anagram)

Science of gardening

The cultivation of plants

Pronounced lordly customs, such as those at Kew engage in (wordplay)

HOUSEBOATER houseboat

Demolition worker who shows criminal intent

Burglar

Houseclean

Housedress

Housefather

HOUSEHOLDER The master or head of a family; one who occupies a house with his family.

Male with an iron and a feather duster (wordplay)

To save on accommodation, he works at home

What Mr. Incredible becomes in "Incredibles 2"

They clean up after clerics and footballer in bars

They clean up after clerics in family castle on riverside at the centre

Accommodate the last lines of defence for those cleaning up after the clergy

Maid's profession

Oikologist's study

Money set aside for domestic costs

They keep an eye on the school children for the Ceann Comhairles perhaps

Housemother

Take in rope for craftsman

Job that involves ladder climbing

Man with a ladder

Houseparent

Houseperson

Politicians at work maintaining domestic security

Keeping an eye on the flat? That's why the politicians are all there!

Moving tribute (wordplay)

Party for those on the move

Party for the new neighbors

Hucksterism

Humaneness

Kind of floating marina in Utah

(n.) a cannibal

Compassionate

The act of humanizing.

Humbleness

Humbuggery

The formation of humus.

Humiliation

Group that's called a charm

Moodiness; capriciousness.

Hungriness