12-letter words containing a, s, m, u
- universalism — universal character; universality.
- unmarshalled — a military officer of the highest rank, as in the French and some other armies. Compare field marshal.
- unmeasurable — of undetermined or indefinitely great extent or amount; unlimited; measureless: the unmeasured heavens.
- unmeasurably — of undetermined or indefinitely great extent or amount; unlimited; measureless: the unmeasured heavens.
- unmiraculous — not caused by a miracle
- unmistakable — not mistakable; clear; obvious.
- unmistakably — not mistakable; clear; obvious.
- unmoralising — not moralising
- unseminaried — not having a seminary education
- unstimulated — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- unsublimated — Psychology. to divert the energy of (a sexual or other biological impulse) from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
- unsystematic — having, showing, or involving a system, method, or plan: a systematic course of reading; systematic efforts.
- untransmuted — not transmuted; that has not been transmuted or transformed
- vacuum flask — A vacuum flask is a container which is used to keep hot drinks hot or cold drinks cold. It has two thin silvery glass walls with a vacuum between them.
- vacuum servo — a servomechanism that is operated by the lowering of pressure in the intake duct of an internal-combustion engine
- value system — moral code, ethos
- voluntaryism — voluntarism (def 2).
- warehouseman — a person who stores goods for others for pay.
- warehousemen — Irregular plural form of warehouseman.
- whitmanesque — of or like Walt Whitman, his style, or his outlook; often, specif., democratic, expansive, exuberant, etc.
- wild mustard — any of several weedy plants belonging to the genus Brassica, of the mustard family, as charlock.
- williamsburg — a city in SE Virginia: colonial capital of Virginia; now restored to its original pre-Revolutionary style.
- world-famous — famous throughout the world: a world-famous film.
- xanthomatous — of, relating to, or marked by xanthoma
- xylobalsamum — the dried, fragrant wood of the Balsamodendron gileadense that produces resin known as Balm of Gilead
- yamoussoukro — a republic in W Africa: formerly part of French West Africa; gained independence 1960. 127,520 sq. mi. (330,275 sq. km). Capital: Abidjan.
- your-majesty — regal, lofty, or stately dignity; imposing character; grandeur: majesty of bearing; the majesty of Chartres.
- yukawa meson — a hypothetical elementary particle with finite rest mass, whose exchange between nucleons would account for the strong short-range forces between nucleons: subsequently identified as the pion.
- zebra mussel — a small striped freshwater mussel from NE Europe, Dreissena polymorpha: introduced to the Great Lakes in the 1980s and deleteriously affecting water pipes, other fauna, etc.