12-letter words containing i, l, u, s, o
- noninclusion — the act of including.
- nonocclusive — occluding or tending to occlude.
- nonreligious — of, relating to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.
- nonspiritual — Not spiritual.
- nonuniversal — Not universal.
- np-hilarious — (humour) An algorithm whose complexity is a joke, either literally, as in BogoSort, or metaphorically.
- nucleocapsid — the nucleic acid core and surrounding capsid of a virus; the basic viral structure.
- nucleophiles — Plural form of nucleophile.
- nucleosidase — any of the class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of nucleosides.
- nucleotidase — a biochemical catalyst that facilitates the process of hydrolyzing or splitting a nucleotide and turning it into a phosphate and a nucleoside
- numerologist — A practitioner of numerology.
- nutritiously — In a way that provides nutrition; nourishment; food.
- obsequiously — characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning: an obsequious bow.
- oil industry — petroleum-processing business
- oil pressure — force that keeps engine lubricated
- old guardism — political conservatism.
- old prussian — a Baltic language extinct since the 17th century. Abbreviation: OPruss.
- oleaginously — In an oleaginous manner.
- oleoresinous — pertaining to, characteristic of, or containing oleoresin.
- oligophagous — (especially of insects) eating only a few types of food.
- ombrophilous — (of plants) tolerant of wet conditions
- omnibus bill — a bill dealing with, or providing for many different things or cases
- omnivorously — eating both animal and plant foods.
- ophiolatrous — of, relating to, or practising snake-worshipping
- orichalceous — relating to or resembling orichalc
- outbuildings — Plural form of outbuilding.
- outlandishly — In an outlandish manner.
- 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
- outside loop — a loop during which the back of the airplane is on the outer side of the curve described by the course of flight.
- outside-left — a footballer who plays on the outside left wing of the field
- overflourish — to flourish excessively
- paludicolous — inhabiting marshland
- patroclinous — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the paternal parent (opposed to matrocliny).
- percussional — of or relating to percussion
- perfidiously — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
- perniciously — causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful: pernicious teachings; a pernicious lie.
- petaliferous — bearing or having petals.
- photophilous — of or relating to an organism, as a plant, that is receptive to, seeks, or thrives in light.
- pleiochasium — a flowering system in which several buds come out at the same time
- plumbaginous — containing graphite.
- plumbiferous — yielding or containing lead.
- polyneuritis — inflammation of several nerves at the same time; multiple neuritis.
- polyomavirus — any of a genus (Polyomavirus) of papovaviruses that naturally infect wild and laboratory mice, and that cause tumors when injected into newborn mice
- polystichous — arranged in rows or series.
- polysulphide — any sulphide of a metal containing divalent anions in which there are chains of sulphur atoms, as in the polysulphides of sodium, Na2S2, Na2S3, Na2S4, etc
- porcelainous — made of or resembling porcelain
- postal union — an international agreement on postal rates and services.
- postdiluvial — existing or occurring after the biblical Flood
- postdiluvian — existing or occurring after the Biblical Flood.