12-letter words containing a, u, s, o, n
- exclusionary — restrictive or elitist
- exonucleases — Plural form of exonuclease.
- expugnations — Plural form of expugnation.
- exsanguinous — Alternative form of exsanguious.
- exsufflation — (obsolete) A blast from beneath.
- extraneously — In an extraneous manner.
- fabulousness — almost impossible to believe; incredible.
- factiousness — given to faction; dissentious: A factious group was trying to undermine the government.
- fair housing — the sale and rental of private housing free of discriminatory practices or policies.
- fashiousness — the quality of being fashious; troublesomeness
- 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
- favouredness — the quality of or extent to which something is favoured
- fluctuations — Plural form of fluctuation.
- flusteration — (colloquial, dated) The act of flustering, or the state of being flustered.
- formulations — Plural form of formulation.
- fortran-plus — Fortran for the DAP parallel machine, implements many Fortran 90 features.
- foul-tasting — having a very unpleasant taste
- foundry sand — silica-based sand mixed with clay, oil, etc, to improve its cohesive strength, used in moulding
- 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.
- fulminations — Plural form of fulmination.
- gainsborough — Thomas, 1727–88, English painter.
- galeniferous — Of a mineral or deposit that contains galena.
- gallinaceous — pertaining to or resembling the domestic fowls.
- gas equation — an equation that equates the product of the pressure and the volume of one mole of a gas to the product of its thermodynamic temperature and the gas constant. The equation is exact for an ideal gas and is a good approximation for real gases at low pressures
- gastrulation — the formation of a gastrula.
- gelatigenous — (archaic) Producing or yielding gelatin.
- geraniaceous — belonging to the Geraniaceae, the geranium family of plants.
- glabrousness — The quality of being glabrous.
- glandiferous — bearing nuts or acorns
- glaucousness — Quality of being glaucous.
- graciousness — pleasantly kind, benevolent, and courteous.
- graminaceous — Of, pertaining to, or resembling a grass.
- 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.
- grand rounds — a formal hospital meeting at which physicians discuss interesting medical cases.
- granulations — Plural form of granulation.
- granuloblast — an immature granulocyte.
- granulocytes — Plural form of granulocyte.
- gratulations — a feeling of joy.
- ground glass — Optics. glass that has had its polished surface removed by fine grinding and that is used to diffuse light.
- ground shark — any of various requiem sharks, especially of the genus Carcharhinus.
- 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.
- gut of canso — Canso (def 2).
- gutturonasal — articulated in the back of the mouth and given resonance in the nasal cavity, as the sound represented by (ng) in (ring).
- gymnocarpous — (of a fungus or lichen) having the apothecium open and attached to the surface of the thallus.
- gynantherous — having the stamens converted into pistils by the action of frost, disease, or insects.
- hadrosaurine — Hadrosaurid.
- hallucinosis — a mental state characterized by repeated hallucinations.
- harmoniously — marked by agreement in feeling, attitude, or action: a harmonious group.