12-letter words containing n, u, l
- seleniferous — containing or yielding selenium.
- self-induced — induced by oneself or itself.
- self-insurer — one insured under self-insurance.
- self-tuition — the charge or fee for instruction, as at a private school or a college or university: The college will raise its tuition again next year.
- semiannually — occurring, done, or published every half year or twice a year; semiyearly.
- sensualistic — of or pertaining to the philosophical position of sensualism
- sensualities — sensual nature: the sensuality of Keats's poetry.
- sequentially — characterized by regular sequence of parts.
- seropurulent — composed of or containing both serum and pus
- setting rule — a metal strip used in the hand-setting of type in a composing stick to separate the line being set from the previous one
- shawl tongue — kiltie (def 3).
- shelf fungus — bracket fungus
- shipbuilding — a person whose occupation is the designing or constructing of ship.
- short column — a column whose relative dimensions ensure that when it is overloaded it fails by crushing, rather than buckling
- shut-in well — confined to one's home, a hospital, etc., as from illness.
- silhouetting — a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object, as a cutout or configurational drawing, uniformly filled in with black, especially a black-paper, miniature cutout of the outlines of a person's face in profile.
- silver mound — a perennial Japanese herb, Artemisia schmidtiana, having silver-green leaves forming a moundlike shape.
- simultaneity — existing, occurring, or operating at the same time; concurrent: simultaneous movements; simultaneous translation.
- simultaneous — existing, occurring, or operating at the same time; concurrent: simultaneous movements; simultaneous translation.
- single-issue — pertaining or devoted to one public issue only, especially a political one: single-issue voters.
- sinusoidally — Mathematics. of or relating to a sinusoid.
- sitting bull — 1834–90, American Indian warrior: leader of the Hunkpapa; victor at Little Bighorn, 1876.
- sixth column — the persons residing in a country at war who are devoted to aiding the fifth column in its activities, especially by lowering morale, spreading rumors, etc.
- slaughterman — a person employed to kill animals in a slaughterhouse
- 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.
- sliding rule — (formerly) a slide rule.
- slopping out — In prisons where prisoners have to use buckets as toilets, slopping out is the practice in which they empty the buckets.
- slothfulness — sluggardly; indolent; lazy.
- slow neutron — a neutron with low kinetic energy, especially one slowed by the moderator in a nuclear reactor.
- slow-burning — (of combustible material) burning relatively slowly
- slubberingly — in a slubbering or slovenly manner
- slumberingly — in a slumbering manner
- slumpflation — a situation in which economic depression is combined with increasing inflation
- snout beetle — weevil (def 1).
- solifluction — creep (def 22a).
- solitudinous — the state of being or living alone; seclusion: to enjoy one's solitude.
- solution set — the roots or values satisfying a given equation or inequality, or a set of simultaneous equations or inequalities
- somnambulant — to walk during sleep; sleepwalk.
- somnambulate — to walk during sleep; sleepwalk.
- somnambulism — sleepwalking.
- somnambulist — sleepwalking.
- somniloquism — sleep-talking
- somniloquize — to talk in one's sleep
- south island — the largest island of New Zealand. 58,093 sq. mi. (150,460 sq. km).
- sov language — a type of language that has basic subject-object-verb order, as Turkish, Japanese, or Tamil.
- spencer gulf — an inlet of the Indian Ocean in S Australia, between the Eyre and Yorke Peninsulas. Length: about 320 km (200 miles). Greatest width: about 145 km (90 miles)
- spinal fluid — cerebrospinal fluid
- spinulescent — producing spines
- spiral-bound — having a spiral binding.
- spitefulness — full of spite or malice; showing spite; malicious; malevolent; venomous: a spiteful child.