12-letter words containing n, o, p, l, u, s
- porcelainous — made of or resembling porcelain
- porcelaneous — a strong, vitreous, translucent ceramic material, biscuit-fired at a low temperature, the glaze then fired at a very high temperature.
- portentously — of the nature of a portent; momentous.
- post-nuclear — pertaining to or involving atomic weapons: nuclear war.
- postal union — an international agreement on postal rates and services.
- postdiluvian — existing or occurring after the Biblical Flood.
- postliminium — postliminy.
- postliminous — occurring after; subsequent
- powerfulness — having or exerting great power or force.
- pratincolous — living in a meadow.
- proconsulate — the office or term of office of a proconsul.
- pugnaciously — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
- push polling — the use of loaded questions in a supposedly objective telephone opinion poll during a political campaign in order to bias voters against an opposing candidate
- put flesh on — If you put flesh on something, you add details and more information to it.
- pyroligneous — produced by the distillation of wood.
- retropulsion — an abnormal tendency to walk backwards: a symptom of Parkinson's disease
- scapulomancy — divination of the future by observation of the cracking of a mammal's scapula that has been heated by a fire or hot instrument.
- seropurulent — composed of or containing both serum and pus
- sleep around — to take the rest afforded by a suspension of voluntary bodily functions and the natural suspension, complete or partial, of consciousness; cease being awake.
- slopping out — In prisons where prisoners have to use buckets as toilets, slopping out is the practice in which they empty the buckets.
- slumpflation — a situation in which economic depression is combined with increasing inflation
- spiral-bound — having a spiral binding.
- spoil ground — an area within a body of water, especially in the sea, where dredged material is deposited.
- spongicolous — relating to the skeleton of some marine animals
- sporangiolum — a small sporangium
- stupendously — causing amazement; astounding; marvelous: stupendous news.
- sulphadoxine — an antibiotic drug of the sulphonamide group, commonly used in combination with pyrimethamine to treat malaria, and in combination with various drugs to treat certain infections
- sulphonamide — any of a class of organic compounds that are amides of sulphonic acids containing the group –SO2NH2 or a group derived from this. An important class of sulphonamides are the sulfa drugs
- sulphonation — the action or process of converting or being converted into a sulphonate
- supercooling — to cool (a liquid) below its freezing point without producing solidification or crystallization; undercool.
- superfrontal — a piece of cloth placed over an altar and frontal and hanging down a few inches over the front of the altar
- superordinal — relating to the superorder
- supplication — an act or instance of supplicating; humble prayer, entreaty, or petition.
- supportingly — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
- suspensorial — relating to a suspensorium
- telanthropus — a genus of fossil hominids, known from two fragmentary lower jaws found in the region of Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, South Africa.
- un-purposely — intentionally; deliberately: He tripped me purposely.
- uncomposable — not fit for composition
- unhospitable — not hospitable
- unpersonable — of pleasing personal appearance; handsome or comely; attractive.
- unpolishable — incapable of being made smooth or shiny
- unpoliteness — the quality or state of being impolite
- unscrupulous — not scrupulous; unrestrained by scruples; conscienceless; unprincipled.
- unsupposable — not able to be supposed
- unworshipful — not worshipful; not showing reverence or admiration