12-letter words containing e, n, t, r, u, s
- restauration — restoration
- resupination — a resupinate condition.
- resurrection — the act of rising from the dead.
- retropulsion — an abnormal tendency to walk backwards: a symptom of Parkinson's disease
- return visit — If you make a return visit, you visit someone who has already visited you, or you go back to a place where you have already been once.
- reverse turn — a manoeuvre which makes a vehicle move backwards and to the left or right
- ride shotgun — a smoothbore gun for firing small shots to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.
- rooter skunk — hog-nosed skunk (def 1).
- run the show — to cause or allow to be seen; exhibit; display.
- rutlandshire — a former county, now part of Leicestershire, in central England.
- saint hubert — a borough in S Quebec, Canada, just E of Montreal.
- saint-brieuc — a department in NW France. 2787 sq. mi. (7220 sq. km). Capital: Saint-Brieuc.
- saint-hubert — town in S Quebec, Canada: part of metropolitan Montreal: pop. 77,000
- salad burnet — a plant, Poterium sanguisorba, of the rose family, native to Eurasia, having rounded heads of small, greenish flowers in short spikes and edible leaves.
- saunteringly — in a sauntering manner
- sea lungwort — a plant, Mertensia maritima, of the borage family, growing on northern seacoasts and having leaves with an oysterlike flavor.
- security van — an armoured van used to transport money or other valuables
- send out for — If you send out for food, for example pizzas or sandwiches, you phone and ask for it to be delivered to you.
- seropurulent — composed of or containing both serum and pus
- serpentarium — a place where snakes are housed, especially for exhibition.
- serpentinous — of the nature of serpentine; containing or consisting of serpentine
- setting rule — a metal strip used in the hand-setting of type in a composing stick to separate the line being set from the previous one
- seventy-four — a cardinal number, 70 plus 4.
- sharp tongue — If you say that someone has a sharp tongue, you are critical of the fact that they say things which are unkind though often clever.
- slaughterman — a person employed to kill animals in a slaughterhouse
- slow neutron — a neutron with low kinetic energy, especially one slowed by the moderator in a nuclear reactor.
- south korean — a country in E Asia: formed 1948 after the division of the former country of Korea at 38° N. 36,600 sq. mi. (94,795 sq. km). Capital: Seoul. Compare Korea.
- south orange — a city in NE New Jersey.
- southeastern — from the south east
- southernmost — farthest south.
- southernness — the state of being southern
- southernwood — a woody-stemmed wormwood, Artemisia abrotanum, of southern Europe, having aromatic, finely dissected leaves.
- southwestern — the point or direction midway between south and west. Abbreviation: SW.
- spiderhunter — any of several sunbirds of the genus Arachnothera, of southern Asia and the East Indies, having dull-colored plumage and a long bill.
- splatterpunk — a form of fiction featuring extremely graphic violence.
- sputteringly — in a sputtering manner
- stand surety — to act as a surety
- stanniferous — containing tin; tin-bearing
- stauffenberg — Claus (klaʊs), Graf von. 1907–44, German army officer, who tried to assassinate Hitler (1944). He and his fellow conspirators were executed
- stauropegion — (in an autocephalous church) a monastery subject directly to the primate.
- stegosaurian — having the characteristics of a stegosaur
- stereo sound — reproduction of sound using two or more separate microphones to feed two or more loudspeakers through separate channels in order to give a spatial effect to the sound
- sternutation — the act of sneezing.
- sternutatory — Also, sternutative. causing or tending to cause sneezing.
- stirrup bone — the stapes, one of the three bones of the middle ear
- stone bruise — a bruise on the sole of the foot, caused by walking on or striking against a small stone or other hard object.
- stone curlew — thick-knee.
- stone-ground — (of wheat or other grain) ground between millstones, especially those made of burstone, so as to retain the whole of the grain and preserve nutritional content.
- storage unit — rented space to store items
- stormfulness — the quality or state of being stormful