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12-letter words containing c, r, e, u, s

  • preciousness — of high price or great value; very valuable or costly: precious metals.
  • precociously — unusually advanced or mature in development, especially mental development: a precocious child.
  • preconscious — Psychoanalysis. absent from but capable of being readily brought into consciousness.
  • preconstruct — to construct beforehand
  • prediscourse — communication of thought by words; talk; conversation: earnest and intelligent discourse.
  • prepubescent — of or relating to the years immediately preceding puberty, prepubertal.
  • presbyacusis — an age-related, progressive loss of hearing in both ears
  • prescheduled — a plan of procedure, usually written, for a proposed objective, especially with reference to the sequence of and time allotted for each item or operation necessary to its completion: The schedule allows three weeks for this stage.
  • press launch — the launch of a product, exhibition, event, etc, to which journalists are invited, in order to publicize it
  • pressed duck — a cooked duck sprinkled with red wine and then pressed in a device (duck press) so that the juices can be collected and served as a sauce over the breast meat and legs.
  • pressure ice — a general term for ice broken and deformed by stresses generated by wind, currents, or waves.
  • prestructure — mode of building, construction, or organization; arrangement of parts, elements, or constituents: a pyramidal structure.
  • presubscribe — to pledge, as by signing an agreement, to give or pay (a sum of money) as a contribution, gift, or investment: He subscribed $6,000 for the new church.
  • 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.
  • pseudo force — any force that is postulated to account for apparent deviations from Newton's laws of motion appearing in an accelerated reference system.
  • 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.
  • pseudovector — a variable quantity, such as angular momentum, that has magnitude and orientation with respect to an axis. The components are even functions of the coordinates
  • 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.
  • queen closer — a brick of normal length and thickness but of half normal width, used to complete a course or to space regular bricks.
  • quicksilvery — resembling quicksilver
  • 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.
  • reconstitute — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
  • recrudescent — breaking out afresh or into renewed activity; revival or reappearance in active existence.
  • 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.
  • reductionism — the theory that every complex phenomenon, especially in biology or psychology, can be explained by analyzing the simplest, most basic physical mechanisms that are in operation during the phenomenon.
  • reductionist — the theory that every complex phenomenon, especially in biology or psychology, can be explained by analyzing the simplest, most basic physical mechanisms that are in operation during the phenomenon.
  • refuse chute — a chute in a building which rubbish and waste is thrown down to the main refuse bins, etc
  • reichsfuhrer — the title of the chief of the Schutzstaffel.
  • renovascular — of or relating to the blood vessels of the kidneys.
  • repercussion — an effect or result, often indirect or remote, of some event or action: The repercussions of the quarrel were widespread.
  • repercussive — causing repercussion; reverberating.
  • res judicata — a thing adjudicated; a case that has been decided.
  • rescheduling — the act of changing the time, date, or schedule of
  • rescue grass — a grass, Bromus unioloides (or B. catharticus), of tropical America, having clusters of flattened spikelets, grown for forage.
  • rescue party — a group of people who attempt to rescue, find or save a person or people for danger, esp a person or people who have got lost while mountain climbing
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