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12-letter words containing n, u, l

  • reregulation — renewed regulation, the act or process of regulating again
  • rescheduling — the act of changing the time, date, or schedule of
  • resoluteness — firmly resolved or determined; set in purpose or opinion: Her parents wanted her to marry, but she was focused on her education and remained resolute.
  • resolutioner — a person joining in or subscribing to a resolution.
  • resoundingly — making an echoing sound: a resounding thud.
  • reticulation — a reticulated formation, arrangement, or appearance; network.
  • retrolingual — situated behind or near the base of the tongue.
  • retropulsion — an abnormal tendency to walk backwards: a symptom of Parkinson's disease
  • reynoldsburg — a town in central Ohio.
  • ribonuclease — any of the class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of RNA.
  • rideau canal — a waterway in SE Ontario, Canada, connecting the Ottawa Riverin Ottawa to Lake Ontario in Kingston. 125 miles (202 km) long.
  • rodent ulcer — an ulcerating basal cell skin cancer, common on the face.
  • roman-fleuve — saga (def 3).
  • round-lotter — a buyer or seller of round lots.
  • roundaboutly — in a roundabout manner
  • rubber plant — a plant, Ficus elastica, of the mulberry family, having oblong, shining, leathery leaves, growing native as a tall tree in India, the Malay Archipelago, etc., used as a source of rubber and cultivated in Europe and America as an ornamental house plant.
  • ruling elder — an elder in a Presbyterian church.
  • ruling grade — the steepest grade on a given stretch of track, which determines the maximum tonnage that can be hauled in a train having a given horsepower at a stated minimum speed.
  • ruminatingly — in a ruminating manner
  • run afoul of — fall foul / afoul of, to collide with, as ships. to come into conflict with; quarrel. to make an attack; assault.
  • run in place — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
  • ruralization — to make rural.
  • russian blue — any of a breed of domestic cat, thought to have originated in Arkhangelsk, with a soft, dense, grayish-blue or silvery-blue coat and green eyes
  • russian doll — wooden figures that nest inside one other
  • rutlandshire — a former county, now part of Leicestershire, in central England.
  • saint lucian — of or relating to Saint Lucia, an island state in the Caribbean
  • saint paul's — a cathedral in London, England: designed by Sir Christopher Wren.
  • salad burnet — a plant, Poterium sanguisorba, of the rose family, native to Eurasia, having rounded heads of small, greenish flowers in short spikes and edible leaves.
  • salmon trout — a European trout, Salmo trutta.
  • salutational — relating to salutation
  • salutatorian — (in some U.S. schools and colleges) the student ranking second highest in the graduating class, who delivers the salutatory at commencement.
  • sanctus bell — a bell rung during the celebration of Mass to call attention to the more solemn parts.
  • sanguicolous — living in the blood, as a parasite.
  • sanguinolent — of or relating to blood.
  • sans-culotte — (in the French Revolution) a revolutionary of the poorer class: originally a term of contempt applied by the aristocrats but later adopted as a popular name by the revolutionaries.
  • sansculottic — relating to sansculottes
  • santalaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Santalaceae, a family of semiparasitic plants of Australia and Malaysia including sandalwood and quandong
  • saronic gulf — an inlet of the Aegean, on the SE coast of Greece, between Attica and the Peloponnesus. 50 miles (80 km) long; 30 miles (48 km) wide.
  • satin walnut — the brown heartwood of the sweet gum tree, used for furniture, fittings, and panelling
  • saunteringly — in a sauntering manner
  • scandalously — disgraceful; shameful or shocking; improper: scandalous behavior in public.
  • scapulimancy — divination of the future by observation of the cracking of a mammal's scapula that has been heated by a fire or hot instrument.
  • 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.
  • school lunch — School lunches are midday meals provided for children at a school.
  • schuman plan — the plan for establishing the European Coal and Steel Community, proposed by Robert Schuman, French political leader, in 1950.
  • scrutinously — in a scrutinous manner
  • scutellation — a scutellate state or formation; a scaly covering, as on a bird's foot.
  • sea lungwort — a plant, Mertensia maritima, of the borage family, growing on northern seacoasts and having leaves with an oysterlike flavor.
  • sea purslane — a small chenopodiaceous shrub, Halimione portulacoides, of salt marshes in Eurasia and parts of Africa, having oval leaves and inconspicuous flowers
  • seclusionist — a person who prefers to be alone or secluded
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