12-letter words containing e, s, c, u, t
- tool subject — a subject that, when mastered, equips students with a skill useful in studying other subjects: Grammar is a tool subject for English composition.
- top security — ultra secure
- touch screen — a touch-sensitive display screen on a computer or other electronic device: touching different portions of the screen with a finger or stylus will cause the device to take actions determined by a computer program.
- touch system — a system of typing in which each finger is assigned to one or more keys, thereby enabling a person to type without looking at the keyboard.
- touch-screen — using touch-sensitive screen
- trachypterus — a dealfish or ribbonfish
- transcurrent — running or extending across or transversely.
- transhumance — the seasonal migration of livestock, and the people who tend them, between lowlands and adjacent mountains.
- translucence — permitting light to pass through but diffusing it so that persons, objects, etc., on the opposite side are not clearly visible: Frosted window glass is translucent but not transparent.
- translucency — permitting light to pass through but diffusing it so that persons, objects, etc., on the opposite side are not clearly visible: Frosted window glass is translucent but not transparent.
- tricephalous — with three heads
- tricuspidate — having three cusps or flaps.
- trouser clip — a clip that is worn around the bottom of a trouser leg to stop the material getting caught in the chain of a bicycle
- truck system — the system of paying wages in goods instead of money.
- true colours — If you see someone in their true colours or if they show their true colours, you realize what they are really like.
- tsunamigenic — producing a tsunami or tsunamis
- tuberculosed — tuberculous
- tuberculosis — an infectious disease that may affect almost any tissue of the body, especially the lungs, caused by the organism Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and characterized by tubercles.
- ultraprecise — extremely accurate
- un-scattered — distributed or occurring at widely spaced and usually irregular intervals: scattered villages; scattered showers.
- unaccustomed — not accustomed or habituated: to be unaccustomed to hardships.
- unassociated — to connect or bring into relation, as thought, feeling, memory, etc.: Many people associate dark clouds with depression and gloom.
- unchasteness — lack of chastity
- unchristened — not christened
- uncle tomism — a policy of relationship between whites and blacks involving a benevolent but patronizing attitude on the part of the whites and a willingly submissive attitude on the part of the blacks.
- unconsecrate — profane or base
- unconsenting — to permit, approve, or agree; comply or yield (often followed by to or an infinitive): He consented to the proposal. We asked her permission, and she consented.
- unconversant — familiar by use or study (usually followed by with): conversant with Spanish history.
- uncoquettish — not flirtatious
- under escort — with armed accompaniment
- under-script — the letters or characters used in writing by hand; handwriting, especially cursive writing.
- underclothes — clothes worn under outer clothes.
- understocked — to provide an insufficient quantity, as of merchandise, supplies, or livestock.
- undesecrated — to divest of sacred or hallowed character or office.
- undispatched — not dispatched; not delivered or sent out
- undistracted — not distracted; concentrating
- unforecasted — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- unhysterical — not showing or suggesting any hysteria; controlled; sensible; calm;
- unidealistic — of or relating to idealism or idealists.
- uninstructed — not instructed; uninformed; uneducated.
- unit process — any of a number of standard operations, such as filtration or distillation, that are widely used in various chemical and process industries
- unit's place — unit (def 8).
- unobfuscated — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- unobstructed — to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
- unpersecuted — not persecuted
- unrespectful — full of, characterized by, or showing politeness or deference: a respectful reply.
- unrespective — not attentive; unheeding
- unrestricted — confined; limited.
- unsanctified — not sanctified
- unsanctioned — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.