12-letter words containing i, n, t, e, r, u
- interruptive — to cause or make a break in the continuity or uniformity of (a course, process, condition, etc.).
- interspinous — located between spines, esp between the vertebrae
- interspousal — Often, spousals. the ceremony of marriage; nuptials.
- interstitium — (medicine) An interstitial space within a tissue or organ.
- intertextual — the interrelationship between texts, especially works of literature; the way that similar or related texts influence, reflect, or differ from each other: the intertextuality between two novels with the same setting.
- intertexture — the act of interweaving or the condition of being interwoven.
- intertissued — interwoven
- intertubular — Between tubes or tubules.
- intervillous — Between the villi.
- interwrought — having been interworked
- intramundane — existing or occurring within the material world.
- intranuclear — existing or taking place within a nucleus.
- intraosseous — (medicine) within a bone.
- intrapreneur — an employee of a large corporation who is given freedom and financial support to create new products, services, systems, etc., and does not have to follow the corporation's usual routines or protocols.
- intrauterine — located or occurring within the uterus.
- intraveneous — Misspelling of intravenous.
- introductive — serving or used to introduce; preliminary; beginning: an introductory course; an introductory paragraph.
- invert sugar — a mixture of the dextrorotatory forms of glucose and fructose, formed naturally in fruits and produced artificially in syrups or fondants by treating cane sugar with acids.
- investitures — Plural form of investiture.
- iron sulfate — ferrous sulfate.
- irresolution — lack of resolution; lack of decision or purpose; vacillation.
- isosthenuria — the inability of the kidneys to dilute or concentrate urine
- joint return — a U.S. income-tax return reporting the combined income of a married couple.
- joint runner — (in plumbing) incombustible materials for packing a joint to be caulked with lead.
- journey time — the time taken to make a journey
- jurisprudent — versed in jurisprudence.
- king vulture — a large, black-and-white vulture, Sarcorhamphus papa, of Central and South America, having colorful wattles and wartlike protuberances on its head and neck.
- lace-curtain — characteristic of or aspiring to the standards and attributes of the middle class: Her latest novel traces the rise of a lace-curtain Irish family in Boston.
- laser tuning — a technique for adjusting a laser's output frequency to within a specific range, especially in semiconductors.
- latin square — a square array of numbers, letters, etc., in which each item appears exactly once in each row and column: used in statistical analysis.
- lean mixture — A lean mixture is a fuel/air mixture containing a relatively low proportion of fuel.
- lenticularis — (meteorology) a cloud species which consists of rounded lens shaped of cloud, often forming near mountains. Associated with cirrocumulus, and altocumulus, and sometimes stratocumulus genera.
- lenticularly — in a lenticular manner
- lentiviruses — Plural form of lentivirus.
- leukotrienes — Plural form of leukotriene.
- lieutenantry — the post or commission of a lieutenant
- manicure set — a set of small tools designed for trimming and caring for the nails
- menstruating — to undergo menstruation.
- menstruation — the periodic discharge of blood and mucosal tissue from the uterus, occurring approximately monthly from puberty to menopause in nonpregnant women and females of other primate species.
- microcentury — One CS professor used to characterise the standard length of his lectures as a microcentury - that is, about 52.6 minutes (see also attoparsec, nanoacre, and especially microfortnight).
- miniaturised — Simple past tense and past participle of miniaturise.
- miniaturized — Simple past tense and past participle of miniaturize.
- miniaturizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of miniaturize.
- minicomputer — a computer with processing and storage capabilities smaller than those of a mainframe but larger than those of a microcomputer.
- mirthfulness — joyous; cheerful; jolly; merry: a mirthful laugh.
- misadventure — an instance of bad fortune; mishap.
- misconstrued — Simple past tense and past participle of misconstrue.
- misconstrues — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misconstrue.
- misfeaturing — distorting the features
- misfortunate — Having suffered misfortune; pitiable.