12-letter words containing c, a, u, s, e, r
- noninsurance — the condition or state of not having insurance
- nuclear test — a test carried out on a nuclear weapon to determine effectiveness, etc
- oracularness — the state of being oracular
- orchidaceous — belonging to the plant family Orchidaceae.
- orichalceous — relating to or resembling orichalc
- overcautious — excessively or unnecessarily cautious: Sometimes it doesn't pay to be overcautious in business.
- overissuance — the act of issuing in excessive amounts
- overpurchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- oyster sauce — thick oyster-flavoured Asian relish
- pachydermous — any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
- pan scrubber — a rough sponge, often made of steel wool, used for scrubbing saucepans, frying pans, etc
- particulates — very small particles of a substance, esp those that are produced when fuel is burned
- percussional — of or relating to percussion
- percutaneous — administered, removed, or absorbed by way of the skin, as an injection, needle biopsy, or transdermal drug.
- periostracum — the external, chitinlike covering of the shell of certain mollusks that protects the limy portion from acids.
- pertinacious — holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute.
- pervicacious — extremely willful; obstinate; stubborn.
- picture sash — a large window sash, as for a picture window.
- porcelainous — made of or resembling porcelain
- porcelaneous — a strong, vitreous, translucent ceramic material, biscuit-fired at a low temperature, the glaze then fired at a very high temperature.
- post-nuclear — pertaining to or involving atomic weapons: nuclear war.
- postfracture — taking place after a fracture
- pre-issuance — the act of issuing.
- pre-purchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- preassurance — a guarantee or assurance offered beforehand
- precancerous — showing pathological changes that may be preliminary to malignancy.
- precariously — dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure: a precarious livelihood.
- presbyacusis — an age-related, progressive loss of hearing in both ears
- press launch — the launch of a product, exhibition, event, etc, to which journalists are invited, in order to publicize it
- primulaceous — belonging to the plant family Primulaceae.
- proconsulate — the office or term of office of a proconsul.
- producer gas — a mixture of carbon monoxide and nitrogen produced by passing air over hot coke, used mainly as a fuel
- promuscidate — shaped like a proboscis
- prosecutable — Law. to institute legal proceedings against (a person). to seek to enforce or obtain by legal process. to conduct criminal proceedings in court against.
- pseudocereal — any of several plants, as buckwheat and quinoa, that produce fruits and seeds used as flour but are not of the grass family.
- pseudoscalar — a scalar quantity that changes sign when the sense of the orientation of the coordinate system is changed.
- pterocarpous — having winged fruit.
- purchase tax — a sales tax on nonessential and luxury goods.
- quacksalvers — Plural form of quacksalver.
- quadrisected — Simple past tense and past participle of quadrisect.
- quarterbacks — Plural form of quarterback.
- quarterdecks — Plural form of quarterdeck.
- quinceaneras — Plural form of quinceanera.
- race suicide — the extinction of a racial or ethnic population that tends to result when, through the unwillingness or forbearance of its members to have children, the birthrate falls below the death rate.
- radio source — a cosmic object or phenomenon, as a galaxy, pulsar, quasar, or the remnant of a supernova or of a galactic collision, that emits radio waves.
- ramapithecus — a genus of extinct Miocene ape known from fossils found in India and Pakistan and formerly thought to be a possible human ancestor.
- ramentaceous — resembling or covered with ramenta.
- rauschenberg — Robert, 1925–2008, U.S. artist.
- reduced mass — a quantity obtained when one particle is moving about another, larger particle that is also moving, equivalent to the mass of the smaller particle, were the larger particle not moving, and equal to the quotient of the product of the two masses divided by their sum.
- renovascular — of or relating to the blood vessels of the kidneys.