12-letter words containing a, c, e, o, u, s
- pervicacious — extremely willful; obstinate; stubborn.
- platanaceous — relating to the family Platanaceae
- pleiochasium — a flowering system in which several buds come out at the same time
- plumulaceous — having the texture of down.
- pneumatocyst — the cavity of a pneumatophore.
- polychaetous — of or relating to the genus Polychaeta
- porcelainous — made of or resembling porcelain
- porcelaneous — a strong, vitreous, translucent ceramic material, biscuit-fired at a low temperature, the glaze then fired at a very high temperature.
- post-nuclear — pertaining to or involving atomic weapons: nuclear war.
- postfracture — taking place after a fracture
- precancerous — showing pathological changes that may be preliminary to malignancy.
- precariously — dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure: a precarious livelihood.
- primulaceous — belonging to the plant family Primulaceae.
- proconsulate — the office or term of office of a proconsul.
- producer gas — a mixture of carbon monoxide and nitrogen produced by passing air over hot coke, used mainly as a fuel
- promuscidate — shaped like a proboscis
- prosecutable — Law. to institute legal proceedings against (a person). to seek to enforce or obtain by legal process. to conduct criminal proceedings in court against.
- pseudocereal — any of several plants, as buckwheat and quinoa, that produce fruits and seeds used as flour but are not of the grass family.
- pseudoscalar — a scalar quantity that changes sign when the sense of the orientation of the coordinate system is changed.
- psychosexual — of or relating to the relationship of psychological and sexual phenomena.
- pterocarpous — having winged fruit.
- quindecagons — Plural form of quindecagon.
- radio source — a cosmic object or phenomenon, as a galaxy, pulsar, quasar, or the remnant of a supernova or of a galactic collision, that emits radio waves.
- ramentaceous — resembling or covered with ramenta.
- renovascular — of or relating to the blood vessels of the kidneys.
- resuscitator — a person or thing that resuscitates.
- ribonuclease — any of the class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of RNA.
- road surface — the surface of the road, often asphalt
- sacred lotus — Indian lotus.
- sacrilegious — pertaining to or involving sacrilege: sacrilegious practices.
- safe conduct — If you are given safe conduct, the authorities officially allow you to travel somewhere, guaranteeing that you will not be arrested or harmed while doing so.
- safe-conduct — a document authorizing safe passage through a region, especially in time of war.
- safety touch — a two-point play
- salsolaceous — relating to the genus Salsola
- sans-culotte — (in the French Revolution) a revolutionary of the poorer class: originally a term of contempt applied by the aristocrats but later adopted as a popular name by the revolutionaries.
- santalaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Santalaceae, a family of semiparasitic plants of Australia and Malaysia including sandalwood and quandong
- sapindaceous — belonging to the Sapindaceae, the soapberry family of plants.
- sausage code — (humour, programming) Code which, once you know the details of how it's made, you'll never want to use again.
- scare quotes — quotation marks placed around a word or phrase to indicate that it should not be taken literally or automatically accepted as true
- schopenhauer — Arthur [ahr-too r] /ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1788–1860, German philosopher.
- scitamineous — of or relating to the Scitimanae order of plants, which includes the ginger and banana plants
- scolopaceous — (of birds or other animals) like a snipe, a shore bird with a straight beak
- scout leader — the leader of a troop of Scouts
- screw around — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
- scrobiculate — furrowed or pitted.
- scutellation — a scutellate state or formation; a scaly covering, as on a bird's foot.
- secretagogue — a substance or situation that promotes secretion.
- seymour cray — (person) The founder of Cray Research and designer of several of their supercomputers. Cray has been a charismatic yet somewhat reclusive figure. He began Cray Research in Minnesota in 1972. In 1988, Cray moved his Cray-3 project to Colorado Springs. The next year, Cray Research spun it off to create Cray Computer. In 1989, Cray left Cray Research and started Cray Computer Corporation in Colorado Springs. His quest to build a faster computer using new-generation materials failed in 1995, and his bankruptcy cost half a billion dollars and more than 400 jobs. The company was unable to raise $20 million needed to finish the Cray-4 and filed for bankruptcy in March 1995. In the summer of 1996, Cray started a Colorado Springs-based company called SRC Computers, Inc. "We think we'll build computers, but who knows what kind or how," Cray said at the time. "We'll talk it over and see if we can come up with a plan." On 1996-09-22, aged 70, Cray broke his neck in a car accident. Surgery for massive head injuries and swelling of the brain leaving him in a critical and unstable condition.
- smilacaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Smilacaceae, a temperate and tropical family of monocotyledonous flowering plants, most of which are climbing shrubs with prickly stems: includes smilax
- sound camera — a motion-picture camera that is capable of photographing silently at the normal speed of 24 fps and operating in synchronization with separate audio recording equipment.