12-letter words containing n, e, u, s, t
- decrustation — the act of removing a crust
- deliquescent — the act or process of deliquescing.
- dental nurse — a dentist's assistant, esp one who passes instruments, mixes fillings, etc
- desaturation — the addition of white light to a pure colour to produce a paler less saturated colour
- desmond tutu — a university degree graded 2:2 (second class lower bracket)
- desquamating — Present participle of desquamate.
- desquamation — to come off in scales, as the skin in certain diseases; peel off.
- dessert menu — In a restaurant or café, the dessert menu is a list of the desserts that are available.
- detumescence — the subsidence of a swelling, esp the return of a swollen organ, such as the penis, to the flaccid state
- devaluations — Plural form of devaluation.
- dextrousness — Alternative form of dexterousness.
- disadventure — misfortune; bad luck
- disbursement — the act or an instance of disbursing.
- disburthened — Simple past tense and past participle of disburthen.
- discontinued — to put an end to; stop; terminate: to discontinue nuclear testing.
- discontinues — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discontinue.
- discountable — That can be discounted (in all senses).
- disgruntedly — In a disgruntled manner.
- disguisement — Disguise (deceptive appearance).
- disingenuity — (obsolete) disingenuousness.
- disjunctives — Plural form of disjunctive.
- disjunctures — Plural form of disjuncture.
- distress gun — a gun fired at one-minute intervals as a signal of distress.
- disturbances — Plural form of disturbance.
- do one's nut — to be extremely angry; go into a rage
- doubtfulness — of uncertain outcome or result.
- dreadnoughts — Plural form of dreadnought.
- droughtiness — Dryness of the weather; lack of rain.
- dulcet tones — People often use the expression dulcet tones to refer to someone's voice.
- dust counter — any instrument used to measure the size and number of dust particles per unit volume in the atmosphere.
- easter bunny — rabbit: brings chocolate eggs
- eating house — a restaurant or other place where one can eat
- educatedness — the quality of being educated
- educationese — the jargon associated with the field of education.
- educationist — a specialist in the theory and methods of education.
- egads button — a switch that triggers the destruction in flight of a malfunctioning missile.
- ejaculations — Plural form of ejaculation.
- electrotonus — the change in the state of irritability and conductivity of a nerve or muscle caused by the passage of an electric current
- elocutionist — Someone who practices or teaches elocution.
- eloquentness — The quality of being eloquent.
- elucidations — Plural form of elucidation.
- emasculating — Present participle of emasculate.
- emasculation — The act of depriving of virility, or the state of being so deprived; castration.
- encapsulated — Simple past tense and past participle of encapsulate.
- encapsulates — Enclose (something) in or as if in a capsule.
- encrustation — The action of encrusting or state of being encrusted.
- enstructured — built into the structure of something
- entablatures — Plural form of entablature.
- enterococcus — A streptococcus of a group that occurs naturally in the intestine but causes inflammation and blood infection if introduced elsewhere in the body (e.g., by injury or surgery).
- enteropneust — a worm-like marine invertebrate