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12-letter words containing a, u, t, e, i

  • sternutation — the act of sneezing.
  • stipulaceous — of, relating to, having, resembling, or living on stipules
  • stirrup-vase — a Mycenaean vase having a spherical body, a spout on the shoulder, and a handle, curving across the top, supported by a solid conical neck.
  • storage unit — rented space to store items
  • strain gauge — Geology. a type of extensometer designed for geophysical use.
  • straticulate — made up of or arranged in thin layers.
  • strike fault — a fault that trends parallel to the strike of the strata that it offsets.
  • struma-river — a river in S Europe, flowing SE through SW Bulgaria and NE Greece into the Aegean. 225 miles (362 km) long.
  • stupefacient — stupefying; producing stupor.
  • stupefaction — the state of being stupefied; stupor.
  • stupefactive — serving to stupefy.
  • sub-additive — something that is added, as one substance to another, to alter or improve the general quality or to counteract undesirable properties: an additive that thins paint.
  • subalternity — lower in rank; subordinate: a subaltern employee.
  • subcelestial — being beneath the heavens; terrestrial.
  • subdiaconate — the office or dignity of a subdeacon.
  • subduplicate — of the square root of ratios
  • subeditorial — of or relating to a subeditor, the work of a subeditor or a subeditorship
  • suberization — the impregnation of cell walls with suberin, causing the formation of cork.
  • subinfeudate — to grant (lands) by subinfeudation
  • subjectional — the act of subjecting.
  • sublineation — an underlining
  • subminiature — subminiature camera.
  • submit-table — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
  • subordinated — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
  • subsatellite — a satellite designed to be released into orbit from another spacecraft.
  • subspecialty — a lesser or minor specialty: a cinematographer with a subspecialty of portrait photography.
  • substantiate — to establish by proof or competent evidence: to substantiate a charge.
  • suicide pact — an agreement between two or more people to commit suicide together.
  • supercabinet — a specially-formed cabinet, a select or powerful group of political ministers (cabinet)
  • supercapital — a member situated between a capital and the spring of an arch, as a dosseret.
  • superelastic — capable of returning to its original length, shape, etc., after being stretched, deformed, compressed, or expanded: an elastic waistband; elastic fiber.
  • supergravity — a hypothetical symmetry among groups of particles containing fermions and bosons, especially in theories of gravity (supergravity) that unify electromagnetism, the weak force, and the strong force with gravity into a single unified force.
  • superheating — Superheating of steam is raising its temperature to well above boiling point.
  • superpatriot — a person who is patriotic to an extreme.
  • superplastic — (of some metals and alloys) having the capacity to undergo extreme deformation at high temperatures.
  • superquality — above-average quality
  • superstation — an independent television station whose signal is transmitted by satellite to subscribers on a cable system.
  • surrealistic — of, relating to, or characteristic of surrealism; surreal.
  • sustentation — maintenance in being or activity; the sustaining of life through vital processes.
  • sustentative — maintenance in being or activity; the sustaining of life through vital processes.
  • sweat equity — unreimbursed labor that results in the increased value of property or that is invested to establish or expand an enterprise.
  • sweat it out — wait tensely
  • tag question — Also called tag. a short interrogative structure appended to a statement or command, as isn't it in It's raining, isn't it?, are you in You're not going, are you?, or German nicht wahr.
  • take up with — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
  • tasting menu — a fixed-price restaurant meal or menu consisting of small portions of numerous dishes: We ordered the 6-course tasting menu for $125.
  • tau neutrino — a hypothetical type of neutrino that would obey a conservation law together with the tau lepton, with the total number of tau leptons and tau neutrinos minus the total number of their antiparticles remaining constant.
  • tau particle — an unstable, negatively charged lepton with a mass of c. 1,777 MeV/c2 (or c. 3,490 times that of an electron) and a mean lifetime of 2.2 ×10-13 second
  • tautomerizes — to undergo tautomerism.
  • team up with — join forces with
  • teleosaurian — of or relating to the teleosaur
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