12-letter words containing e, u, n, i
- on your side — If something is on your side or if you have it on your side, it helps you when you are trying to achieve something.
- open circuit — a discontinuous circuit through which no current can flow.
- orange juice — fruit drink: nectar of orange
- oriental rug — a rug or carpet woven usually in Asia and characterized by hand-knotted pile.
- orion nebula — a luminous nebula in the constellation Orion, in the center of Orion's sword.
- ostentatious — characterized by or given to pretentious or conspicuous show in an attempt to impress others: an ostentatious dresser.
- outcompeting — to strive to outdo another for acknowledgment, a prize, supremacy, profit, etc.; engage in a contest; vie: to compete in a race; to compete in business.
- outdistanced — Simple past tense and past participle of outdistance.
- outdistances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outdistance.
- outfangthief — the right of a lord to try a thief captured within his jurisdiction, regardless of where the thief is from
- outgoingness — The state or condition of being outgoing; gregariousness, extroversion.
- outlet point — an opening (on a pipe, etc) permitting escape or release (of liquid, etc)
- outline font — (text) (Or "vector font") A font defined as a set of lines and curves as opposed to a bitmap font. An outline font (e.g. PostScript, TrueType, RISC OS) can be scaled to any size and otherwise transformed more easily than a bitmap font, and with more attractive results, though this requires a lot of numerical processing. The result of transforming a character in an outline font in a particular way is often saved as a bitmap in a font cache to avoid repeating the calculations if that character is to be drawn again.
- outnumbering — Present participle of outnumber.
- outside lane — the lane on a motorway where overtaking of other vehicles is permitted and vehicles can travel fastest
- outside line — an external telephone connection
- outsiderness — The state or condition of being an outsider.
- outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
- over-anxious — excessively anxious.
- over-running — to rove over (a country, region, etc.); invade; ravage: a time when looting hordes had overrun the province.
- overbuilding — Present participle of overbuild.
- overclouding — Present participle of overcloud.
- overdiscount — to discount excessively
- overissuance — the act of issuing in excessive amounts
- oversanguine — too optimistic
- packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
- panhellenium — an institution founded by the Roman Emperor Hadrian idealizing Greece's Classical history
- pansexualism — the belief that a sexual instinct drives all human behaviour
- pansexualist — someone who is pansexual
- pansexuality — Psychiatry. pertaining to the theory that all human behavior is based on sexuality.
- paradoxurine — relating to the palm civet
- paring gouge — a woodworker's gouge having the bezel on the concave face.
- passive noun — a noun whose referent is the recipient of an action, as trainee, multiplicand.
- 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.
- pauciloquent — using few words in speech or conversation
- paying guest — lodger
- pediculation — the act or process of growing a stalk or pedicle
- penguin suit — a man's formal evening suit
- pension fund — a fund created and maintained, as by a corporation, to provide benefits under a pension plan.
- percussional — of or relating to percussion
- perfusionist — a medical technician or nurse who monitors and operates equipment that oxygenates the blood, as during open-heart surgery
- pericementum — periodontal membrane.
- perinephrium — the capsule of connective tissue that envelops the kidney.
- perineuritis — inflammation of the perineurium
- periodontium — the bone, connective tissue, and gum surrounding and supporting a tooth.
- perionychium — the epidermis surrounding the base and sides of a fingernail or toenail.
- periselenium — the closest point of the orbit of a spacecraft to the moon
- perniciously — causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful: pernicious teachings; a pernicious lie.
- perpetuating — to make perpetual.
- perpetuation — to make perpetual.