12-letter words containing a, s, u, r, i
- david souter — David H. born 1939, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1990–2009.
- debaucheries — Plural form of debauchery.
- decrustation — the act of removing a crust
- desaturation — the addition of white light to a pure colour to produce a paler less saturated colour
- diégo-suarez — a seaport on N Madagascar.
- dinosaur pen — A traditional mainframe computer room complete with raised flooring, special power, its own ultra-heavy-duty air conditioning, and a side order of Halon fire extinguishers. See boa.
- disadventure — misfortune; bad luck
- 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)
- discouraging — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
- disenamoured — to disillusion; disenchant (usually used in the passive and followed by of or with): He was disenamored of working in the city.
- disgracefull — Archaic form of disgraceful.
- disinvoltura — Self-assurance; lack of constraint.
- dispauperize — to free (a person) from the state of being a pauper
- disqualifier — One who, or that which, disqualifies.
- disregardful — neglectful; careless.
- disreputable — not reputable; having a bad reputation: a disreputable barroom.
- disreputably — In a disreputable manner.
- dissimulator — One who dissimulates.
- distraughtly — distracted; deeply agitated.
- distributary — an outflowing branch of a stream or river, typically found in a delta (opposed to tributary).
- disturbances — Plural form of disturbance.
- disturbative — capable of disturbing
- dramaturgist — A person who composes a drama and directs its representation; a playwright.
- earth summit — a summit conference of 100 or more earth leaders debating global environmental and development issues, specifically the summit held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, but the term is also applied e.g. to a projected similar event in 2012
- east prussia — a former province in NE Germany: an enclave separated from Germany by the Polish Corridor; now divided between Poland and the Russian Federation. 14,283 sq. mi. (36,993 sq. km). Capital: Königsberg.
- encrustation — The action of encrusting or state of being encrusted.
- enumerations — Plural form of enumeration.
- epicureanism — An ancient school of philosophy founded in Athens by Epicurus. The school rejected determinism and advocated hedonism (pleasure as the highest good), but of a restrained kind: mental pleasure was regarded more highly than physical, and the ultimate pleasure was held to be freedom from anxiety and mental pain, esp. that arising from needless fear of death and of the gods.
- equilaterals — Plural form of equilateral.
- equilibrants — Plural form of equilibrant.
- exclusionary — restrictive or elitist
- extramusical — outside the field or scope of music
- facial scrub — a beauty product or treatment which cleanses and exfoliates the skin of the face
- fair housing — the sale and rental of private housing free of discriminatory practices or policies.
- false cirrus — a type of thick cirrus cloud spreading from the top of a cumulonimbus cloud
- fascicularly — in a fascicular manner
- figure skate — a shoe skate used in figure skating, especially one having a blade shorter than that of a racing skate, usually not extending beyond the toe or heel, and with notches or sawteeth on the curved forward edge.
- figure-skate — to take part in figure skating
- figured bass — a bass part in which the notes have numbers under them indicating the chords to be played.
- firing squad — a military detachment assigned to execute a condemned person by shooting.
- flammiferous — flame-producing
- flusteration — (colloquial, dated) The act of flustering, or the state of being flustered.
- formularizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of formularize.
- 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.
- 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).
- fruit basket — a basket containing a variety of fruits sent as a gift
- frustrations — Plural form of frustration.