12-letter words containing n, e, u, t

of substance — wealthy
old chestnut — old saying, cliché
old mine cut — a brilliant cut, common in the 19th century, retaining a relatively high proportion of the original stone and having a large culet and small table compared to modern brilliants.
on the couch — undergoing psychoanalysis
on the house — a building in which people live; residence for human beings.
on the outer — excluded or neglected
on the quiet — If something is done on the quiet, it is done secretly or in such a way that people do not notice it.
on the stump — If politicians are on the stump, they are campaigning for an election.
on your feet — position: standing
open account — current account (def 1).
open circuit — a discontinuous circuit through which no current can flow.
open cluster — a comparatively young, irregularly shaped group of stars, often numbering up to several hundred, and held together by mutual gravitation; usually found along the central plane of the Milky Way and other galaxies.
open couplet — a couplet that concludes with a run-on line.
open texture — the failure of natural languages to determine future usage, particularly the ability of predicates to permit the construction of borderline cases
open-mouthed — having the mouth open.
opendocument — (file format, standard) (ODF, ISO/IEC 26300, OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications) An XML file format for office documents, such as spreadsheets, charts, presentations, databases and word processing. OpenDocument was developed by the Open Office XML technical committee of the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) consortium. It is based on the XML format originally created and implemented by the OpenOffice.org office suite. OpenDocument is an open standard, i.e. freely available and implementable. Compare OOXML.
oriental rug — a rug or carpet woven usually in Asia and characterized by hand-knotted pile.
orthodonture — orthodontia (def 2).
ostentatious — characterized by or given to pretentious or conspicuous show in an attempt to impress others: an ostentatious dresser.
oto-manguean — a family of American Indian languages spoken in central and southern Mexico, including Mixtec, Zapotec, and Otomi.
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.
outdatedness — the state of being outdated
outdistanced — Simple past tense and past participle of outdistance.
outdistances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outdistance.
outer london — the group of London Boroughs that form a ring around the city of London in the UK
outer planet — any of the four planets with orbits outside the orbit of Mars, namely, the planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
outfangthief — the right of a lord to try a thief captured within his jurisdiction, regardless of where the thief is from
outgeneraled — Simple past tense and past participle of outgeneral.
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.
outmaneuvers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outmaneuver.
outmanoeuvre — British. outmaneuver.
outmodedness — The condition of being outmoded.
outnumbering — Present participle of outnumber.
outplacement — counseling and assistance in finding a new job, provided by a company for an employee who has been or is about to be dismissed.
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.
overabundant — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
overdiscount — to discount excessively
overdocument — to document excessively
paludamentum — a cloak worn by officials and military officers of ancient Rome, especially during wartime.
pansexualist — someone who is pansexual
pansexuality — Psychiatry. pertaining to the theory that all human behavior is based on sexuality.
parent group — a large organization that owns a number of smaller separate commercial or industrial firms
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.
pasture land — grassland used for grazing
pastures new — If someone leaves for greener pastures, or in British English pastures new, they leave their job, their home, or the situation they are in for something they think will be much better.

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