12-letter words containing a, s, t, r, o, u
- david souter — David H. born 1939, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1990–2009.
- decrustation — the act of removing a crust
- desaturation — the addition of white light to a pure colour to produce a paler less saturated colour
- desquamatory — an obsolete surgical instrument once used for the desquamation of bones
- disastrously — causing great distress or injury; ruinous; very unfortunate; calamitous: The rain and cold proved disastrous to his health.
- disauthorize — to take authority away from (a person or organization)
- disinvoltura — Self-assurance; lack of constraint.
- dissimulator — One who dissimulates.
- dreadnoughts — Plural form of dreadnought.
- dry tortugas — a group of eight coral islands at the entrance to the Gulf of Mexico: part of Florida
- encrustation — The action of encrusting or state of being encrusted.
- enumerations — Plural form of enumeration.
- erythematous — Of or pertaining to erythema.
- escape route — way out: of situation
- extraneously — In an extraneous manner.
- fast neutron — a neutron produced by nuclear fission that has lost little energy by collision; a neutron with a kinetic energy in excess of 0.1 MeV
- flatterously — in a flatterous manner
- flusteration — (colloquial, dated) The act of flustering, or the state of being flustered.
- forequarters — the forward end of half of a carcass, as of beef or lamb.
- formulations — Plural form of formulation.
- fort pulaski — Count Casimir [kaz-uh-meer] /ˈkæz əˌmɪər/ (Show IPA), 1748–79, Polish patriot; general in the American Revolutionary army.
- fortran-plus — Fortran for the DAP parallel machine, implements many Fortran 90 features.
- fourth-class — of, relating to, or designated as a class next below third, as for mailing, shipping, etc.
- fracastorius — a walled plain in the fourth quadrant of the face of the moon: about 60 miles (97 km) in diameter.
- fructosamine — (organic compound) A chemical compound that can be considered the result of a reaction between fructose and ammonia or an amine (with a molecule of water being released).
- frustrations — Plural form of frustration.
- gastrulation — the formation of a gastrula.
- gesticulator — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
- goddaughters — Plural form of goddaughter.
- gran turismo — (of an automobile) certified as conforming to the specifications, as fuel capacity and engine displacement, for a class of standard automobiles (Gran Turismo) qualified to engage in various types of competitions. Abbreviation: GTO.
- granulations — Plural form of granulation.
- granuloblast — an immature granulocyte.
- granulocytes — Plural form of granulocyte.
- gratuitously — given, done, bestowed, or obtained without charge or payment; free; voluntary.
- gratulations — a feeling of joy.
- grossularite — a mineral, calcium aluminum garnet, Ca 3 Al 2 Si 3 O 12 , occurring in gray-white to pinkish crystals.
- ground staff — The people who are paid to maintain a sports ground are called the ground staff.
- ground state — the state of least energy of a particle, as an atom, or of a system of particles.
- gustave dore — (Paul) Gustave [pawl gy-stav] /pɔl güˈstav/ (Show IPA), 1832?–83, French painter, illustrator, and sculptor.
- gutturonasal — articulated in the back of the mouth and given resonance in the nasal cavity, as the sound represented by (ng) in (ring).
- gynantherous — having the stamens converted into pistils by the action of frost, disease, or insects.
- harmoniumist — a person who plays a harmonium
- heterogamous — Genetics. having unlike gametes, or reproducing by the union of such gametes (opposed to isogamous).
- heteroousian — a person who believes the Father and the Son to be unlike in substance or essence; an Arian (opposed to Homoousian).
- heterosexual — of, relating to, or exhibiting heterosexuality.
- holothurians — Plural form of holothurian.
- house arrest — confinement of an arrested person to his or her residence or to a public place, as a hospital, instead of in a jail: He was under house arrest until the day of his trial.
- house martin — a small European swallow, Delichon urbica, that builds its nest under the eaves of houses.
- housefathers — Plural form of housefather.
- housemasters — Plural form of housemaster.