12-letter words containing l, u, t, e, o, i
- super-polite — showing good manners toward others, as in behavior, speech, etc.; courteous; civil: a polite reply.
- suppletorily — supplying a deficiency.
- technicolour — brightly, showily, or garishly coloured; vividly noticeable
- teleosaurian — of or relating to the teleosaur
- telharmonium — a musical keyboard instrument operating by alternating currents of electricity which, on impulse from the keyboard, produce music at a distant point via telephone lines.
- tenuirostral — pertaining to a group of birds Tenuirostres which have slender bills
- teutonically — of or relating to the ancient Teutons.
- thiosulphate — any salt of thiosulphuric acid
- through-line — a theme or idea that runs from the beginning to the end of a book, film, etc
- tidal volume — the volume of water associated with a rising tide
- tin-fluoride — stannous fluoride.
- triadelphous — (of stamens) united by the filaments into three sets or bundles.
- tricephalous — with three heads
- trimolecular — pertaining to or having three molecules.
- 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
- true to life — realistic
- 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.
- tubuliferous — bearing or made up of tubules.
- tunnel diode — an extremely stable semiconductor diode, having a very narrow highly doped p-n junction, in which electrons travel across the junction by means of the tunnel effect
- ultraserious — extremely serious
- ultraviolent — characterized by or pertaining to extreme acts of violence
- unactionable — furnishing ground for a lawsuit.
- unapologetic — containing an apology or excuse for a fault, failure, insult, injury, etc.: An apologetic letter to his creditors explained the delay.
- 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.
- uncollegiate — of or relating to a college: collegiate life.
- uncomplicate — to make complex, intricate, involved, or difficult: His recovery from the operation was complicated by an allergic reaction.
- undefoliated — having the leaves left intact
- underexploit — to make insufficient use of
- unhospitable — not hospitable
- unifoliolate — compound in structure yet having only one leaflet, as the orange.
- uninoculated — to implant (a disease agent or antigen) in a person, animal, or plant to produce a disease for study or to stimulate disease resistance.
- unipotential — Electricity, Electronics. having uniform electric potential throughout, as a hot cathode (unipotential cathode) indirectly heated by a separate heater circuit so that there is no lateral change of voltage across the cathode due to resistance to a heating current.
- unmethodical — characterized by lack of method or disorderliness
- unnegotiable — capable of being negotiated: a negotiable salary demand.
- unnoticeable — attracting notice or attention; capable of being noticed: a noticeable lack of interest.
- unnoticeably — attracting notice or attention; capable of being noticed: a noticeable lack of interest.
- unobtainable — to come into possession of; get, acquire, or procure, as through an effort or by a request: to obtain permission; to obtain a better income.
- unpoetically — in an unpoetic manner
- unpoliteness — the quality or state of being impolite
- unprofitable — being without profit; not showing or turning a profit: a series of unprofitable ventures.
- unrhetorical — not rhetorical; literal; plainspoken
- urinogenital — genitourinary.
- utility pole — one of a series of large, upright poles used to support telephone wires, electric cables, or the like.
- vasoligature — vasoligation.
- vesiculation — characterized by or covered with vesicles.
- volunteerism — voluntarism (def 2).
- white liquor — (in making wood pulp for paper) the chemicals used to digest the wood, basically sodium hydroxide and sodium hyposulfite.
- wilton house — a mansion in Wilton in Wiltshire: built for the 1st Earl of Pembroke in the 16th century; rebuilt after a fire in 1647 by Inigo Jones and John Webb; altered in the 19th century by James Wyatt; landscaped grounds include a famous Palladian bridge