12-letter words containing e, n, t, r, u, s
- nourishments — Plural form of nourishment.
- nuclear test — a test carried out on a nuclear weapon to determine effectiveness, etc
- nugatoriness — Quality of being nugatory.
- numerologist — A practitioner of numerology.
- oamaru stone — a kind of limestone, of building quality, found at Oamaru on South Island, New Zealand
- obdurateness — The characteristic of being obdurate; stubbornness.
- open cluster — a comparatively young, irregularly shaped group of stars, often numbering up to several hundred, and held together by mutual gravitation; usually found along the central plane of the Milky Way and other galaxies.
- outmaneuvers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outmaneuver.
- outsiderness — The state or condition of being an outsider.
- outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
- overdiscount — to discount excessively
- pasteurising — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
- pasture land — grassland used for grazing
- pastures new — If someone leaves for greener pastures, or in British English pastures new, they leave their job, their home, or the situation they are in for something they think will be much better.
- percutaneous — administered, removed, or absorbed by way of the skin, as an injection, needle biopsy, or transdermal drug.
- perfusionist — a medical technician or nurse who monitors and operates equipment that oxygenates the blood, as during open-heart surgery
- perineuritis — inflammation of the perineurium
- perquisition — an intensive and meticulous examination, pursuit, or hunt for something
- pertinacious — holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute.
- petrobrusian — a member of a 12th-century sect in S France that rejected the Mass, infant baptism, prayers for the dead, sacerdotalism, the veneration of the cross, and the building of churches.
- point source — a source of radiation sufficiently distant compared to its length and width that it can be considered as a point.
- polyneuritis — inflammation of several nerves at the same time; multiple neuritis.
- portentously — of the nature of a portent; momentous.
- post-nuclear — pertaining to or involving atomic weapons: nuclear war.
- postconsumer — noting or pertaining to a product after it has been used and recycled: a chair made of postconsumer plastic.
- pre-discount — to deduct a certain amount from (a bill, charge, etc.): All bills that are paid promptly will be discounted at two percent.
- preconstruct — to construct beforehand
- pregustation — the act of tasting beforehand
- premenstrual — of or relating to menstruation or to the menses.
- prepubescent — of or relating to the years immediately preceding puberty, prepubertal.
- press button — a button on a phone dial which you press
- proconsulate — the office or term of office of a proconsul.
- pterosaurian — a pterosaur
- punta arenas — a seaport in S Chile, on the Strait of Magellan: the southernmost city in Chile. Formerly Magallanes.
- put years on — to make (someone) feel or look much older
- quasineutral — not taking part or giving assistance in a dispute or war between others: a neutral nation during World War II.
- quaternities — Plural form of quaternity.
- ramentaceous — resembling or covered with ramenta.
- readjustment — an act of readjusting or the state of being readjusted.
- reassumption — the act or process of reassuming something
- reassurement — to restore to assurance or confidence: His praise reassured me.
- reconstitute — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
- recrudescent — breaking out afresh or into renewed activity; revival or reappearance in active existence.
- 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.
- reinstituted — to set up; establish; organize: to institute a government.
- requirements — that which is required; a thing demanded or obligatory: One of the requirements of the job is accuracy.
- reset button — control that restores a default setting
- resoluteness — firmly resolved or determined; set in purpose or opinion: Her parents wanted her to marry, but she was focused on her education and remained resolute.
- resolutioner — a person joining in or subscribing to a resolution.