12-letter words containing n, o, u, i, s
- porcelainous — made of or resembling porcelain
- posing pouch — a thong that emphasizes the genitals
- postal union — an international agreement on postal rates and services.
- postdiluvian — existing or occurring after the Biblical Flood.
- postliminium — postliminy.
- postliminous — occurring after; subsequent
- pratincolous — living in a meadow.
- pre-discount — to deduct a certain amount from (a bill, charge, etc.): All bills that are paid promptly will be discounted at two percent.
- preciousness — of high price or great value; very valuable or costly: precious metals.
- preconscious — Psychoanalysis. absent from but capable of being readily brought into consciousness.
- pregustation — the act of tasting beforehand
- print unions — the trade unions within the printing industry
- prison guard — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
- progymnasium — (in Europe) a school that prepares pupils for secondary education (the gymnasium)
- pronouncings — utterances, esp of an official or judgmental nature
- prostituting — a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money; whore; harlot.
- prostitution — the act or practice of engaging in sexual intercourse for money.
- pseudoanemia — Pathology. a quantitative deficiency of the hemoglobin, often accompanied by a reduced number of red blood cells and causing pallor, weakness, and breathlessness.
- pseudonymity — pseudonymous character.
- pterosaurian — a pterosaur
- puddingstone — any conglomerate rock having dark-colored, rounded pebbles that are embedded in a light-colored, fine-grained matrix
- pugnaciously — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
- pumice stone — abrasive stone used for exfoliating
- pumice-stone — Also called pumice stone. a porous or spongy form of volcanic glass, used as an abrasive.
- 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
- pussyfooting — behaving in an excessively cautious way
- pyroligneous — produced by the distillation of wood.
- quadrillions — Plural form of quadrillion.
- quadrisonics — quadraphony.
- quantisation — Alternative spelling of quantization.
- quasi-normal — conforming to the standard or the common type; usual; not abnormal; regular; natural.
- querimonious — Complaining; querulous. (from 17th c.).
- question tag — interrogative ending to a sentence
- questionable — of doubtful propriety, honesty, morality, respectability, etc.: questionable activities; in questionable taste.
- questionably — of doubtful propriety, honesty, morality, respectability, etc.: questionable activities; in questionable taste.
- questionings — Plural form of questioning.
- questionless — unquestionable; doubtless: a questionless fact.
- quindecagons — Plural form of quindecagon.
- quintillions — Plural form of quintillion.
- rambunctious — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
- reassumption — the act or process of reassuming something
- reconstitute — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
- reductionism — the theory that every complex phenomenon, especially in biology or psychology, can be explained by analyzing the simplest, most basic physical mechanisms that are in operation during the phenomenon.
- reductionist — the theory that every complex phenomenon, especially in biology or psychology, can be explained by analyzing the simplest, most basic physical mechanisms that are in operation during the phenomenon.
- repercussion — an effect or result, often indirect or remote, of some event or action: The repercussions of the quarrel were widespread.
- resiniferous — yielding resin.
- resolutioner — a person joining in or subscribing to a resolution.
- resoundingly — making an echoing sound: a resounding thud.
- restauration — restoration
- resubmission — Law. an agreement between parties involved in a dispute, to abide by the decision of an arbitrator or arbitrators.