12-letter words containing n, u, s
- exiguousness — The quality of being meagre or scanty.
- exonucleases — Plural form of exonuclease.
- expenditures — Plural form of expenditure.
- expugnations — Plural form of expugnation.
- exsanguinate — (transitive) To kill by means of blood loss.
- exsanguinous — Alternative form of exsanguious.
- exsufflation — (obsolete) A blast from beneath.
- extinguished — Cause (a fire or light) to cease to burn or shine.
- extinguisher — Anything that extinguishes something; but especially a fire extinguisher.
- extinguishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of extinguish.
- extraneously — In an extraneous manner.
- fabulousness — almost impossible to believe; incredible.
- factiousness — given to faction; dissentious: A factious group was trying to undermine the government.
- fair housing — the sale and rental of private housing free of discriminatory practices or policies.
- faithfulness — strict or thorough in the performance of duty: a faithful worker.
- fancifulness — The quality of being fanciful.
- fashiousness — the quality of being fashious; troublesomeness
- fast neutron — a neutron produced by nuclear fission that has lost little energy by collision; a neutron with a kinetic energy in excess of 0.1 MeV
- favouredness — the quality of or extent to which something is favoured
- felliniesque — referring to or reminiscent of the films of Federico Fellini
- final clause — a clause expressing intention or purpose
- firing squad — a military detachment assigned to execute a condemned person by shooting.
- first cousin — cousin (def 1).
- fissilingual — having a forked tongue
- flexuousness — The state or condition of being flexuous.
- flight nurse — a nurse in the U.S. Air Force who tends patients being transported by airplane.
- flindermouse — (obsolete) A bat (the mammal).
- flourishment — The act or state of flourishing.
- fluctuations — Plural form of fluctuation.
- fluoresceine — Alternative spelling of fluorescein.
- fluorescence — the emission of radiation, especially of visible light, by a substance during exposure to external radiation, as light or x-rays. Compare phosphorescence (def 1).
- fluorescents — Plural form of fluorescent.
- flusteration — (colloquial, dated) The act of flustering, or the state of being flustered.
- flux density — the magnetic, radiant, or electric flux per unit of cross-sectional area.
- flying mouse — pygmy glider.
- flying squad — a trained, mobile group of police officers, business executives, labor officials, or the like, capable of performing specialized tasks whenever or wherever sent, often for use in emergencies.
- forcefulness — full of force; powerful; vigorous; effective: a forceful plea for peace.
- formulations — Plural form of formulation.
- fortran-plus — Fortran for the DAP parallel machine, implements many Fortran 90 features.
- foul-tasting — having a very unpleasant taste
- foundry sand — silica-based sand mixed with clay, oil, etc, to improve its cohesive strength, used in moulding
- four-corners — a point in the SW U.S., at the intersection of 37° N latitude and 109° W longitude, where the boundaries of four states—Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico—meet: the only such point in the U.S.
- fourdriniers — Plural form of fourdrinier.
- fourfoldness — the quality of consisting of four parts
- frankfurters — Plural form of frankfurter.
- french sudan — former name of Mali.
- frondiferous — Producing fronds.
- frontrunners — Plural form of frontrunner.
- fructosamine — (organic compound) A chemical compound that can be considered the result of a reaction between fructose and ammonia or an amine (with a molecule of water being released).
- fruitfulness — producing good results; beneficial; profitable: fruitful investigations.