12-letter words containing e, c, o, n, s, u
- exclusionary — restrictive or elitist
- exclusionism — The quality of being exclusionist.
- exclusionist — Acting to shut out or bar someone from a place, group, or privilege.
- excursioning — Present participle of excursion.
- excursionist — A person who goes on excursions; a traveller or tourist.
- excursionize — to go on an excursion or excursions
- executioners — Plural form of executioner.
- exonucleases — Plural form of exonuclease.
- factiousness — given to faction; dissentious: A factious group was trying to undermine the government.
- fluoresceine — Alternative spelling of fluorescein.
- fluorescence — the emission of radiation, especially of visible light, by a substance during exposure to external radiation, as light or x-rays. Compare phosphorescence (def 1).
- fluorescents — Plural form of fluorescent.
- forcefulness — full of force; powerful; vigorous; effective: a forceful plea for peace.
- four-corners — a point in the SW U.S., at the intersection of 37° N latitude and 109° W longitude, where the boundaries of four states—Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico—meet: the only such point in the U.S.
- 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).
- functionless — Lacking a function.
- fundusectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of the fundus of an organ, such as the uterus or the stomach.
- gallinaceous — pertaining to or resembling the domestic fowls.
- geraniaceous — belonging to the Geraniaceae, the geranium family of plants.
- glaucousness — Quality of being glaucous.
- glucogenesis — the production of glucose by the decomposition of glycogen or from any nonglucose precursor.
- graciousness — pleasantly kind, benevolent, and courteous.
- graminaceous — Of, pertaining to, or resembling a grass.
- granulocytes — Plural form of granulocyte.
- herstmonceux — a village in S England, in E Sussex north of Eastbourne: 15th-century castle, site of the Royal Observatory, which was transferred from Greenwich between 1948 and 1958, until 1990
- hoisin sauce — a thick, sweet, spicy condiment containing soybeans, sugar, garlic, and chili peppers, used in cooking or as an accompaniment to meat, fish, or poultry, especially Peking duck.
- holopneustic — having all the spiracles open, as the tracheal systems of most insects.
- honey locust — a thorny North American tree, Gleditsia triacanthos, of the legume family, having small, compound leaves and pods with a sweet pulp.
- honeysuckles — Plural form of honeysuckle.
- housecleaner — Someone employed to clean a house.
- in course of — in the process of
- incestuously — involving incest.
- inclusive of — including; taking into account
- inclusive or — the connective that gives the value true to a disjunction if either or both of the disjuncts are true
- inconclusive — not conclusive; not resolving fully all doubts or questions: inconclusive evidence.
- inconsequent — characterized by lack of proper sequence in thought, speech, or action.
- inconsumable — not consumable; incapable of being consumed.
- indecorously — not decorous; violating generally accepted standards of good taste or propriety; unseemly.
- inescutcheon — A small shield placed within a larger one.
- infectiously — communicable by infection, as from one person to another or from one part of the body to another: infectious diseases.
- infelicitous — inapt, inappropriate, or awkward; malapropos: an infelicitous remark.
- insubjection — lack of subjection, or the state of being disobedient to an authority, such as a government
- insurrection — an act or instance of rising in revolt, rebellion, or resistance against civil authority or an established government.
- interacinous — situated between the acini of a gland or lung.
- interclusion — the act of intercluding
- internuncios — Plural form of internuncio.
- knucklebones — (in humans) any of the bones forming a knuckle of a finger.
- lane closure — the closing of a lane on a motorway
- licentiously — In a licentious manner, rowdily, overwhelmed by passion and without control of appetites (especially sexual appetites).
- lincolnesque — like or characteristic of Abraham Lincoln: a Lincolnesque compassion.