12-letter words containing o, c, e, l, u, s
- exonucleases — Plural form of exonuclease.
- false colour — colour used in a computer or photographic display to help in interpreting the image, as in the use of red to show high temperatures and blue to show low temperatures in an infrared image converter
- felicitously — In a felicitous manner.
- flesh colour — of a yellowish-pink to yellowish-grey colour roughly that of the skin of a white person
- flickermouse — Alternative form of flittermouse.
- 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.
- fluoroscoped — Simple past tense and past participle of fluoroscope.
- fluoroscopes — Plural form of fluoroscope.
- fluosilicate — a salt of fluosilicic acid.
- focus puller — the member of a camera crew who adjusts the focus of the lens as the camera is tracked in or out
- forcefulness — full of force; powerful; vigorous; effective: a forceful plea for peace.
- foreclosures — Plural form of foreclosure.
- formal cause — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
- functionless — Lacking a function.
- gallinaceous — pertaining to or resembling the domestic fowls.
- gesticulator — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
- glaucousness — Quality of being glaucous.
- glucogenesis — the production of glucose by the decomposition of glycogen or from any nonglucose precursor.
- gospel music — a now popularized form of impassioned rhythmic spiritual music rooted in the solo and responsive church singing of rural blacks in the American South, central to the development of rhythm and blues and of soul music.
- granulocytes — Plural form of granulocyte.
- groupuscules — Plural form of groupuscule.
- hectocotylus — a modified arm of the male of certain cephalopods that is used to transfer sperm to the female.
- hellaciously — In a hellacious manner.
- holopneustic — having all the spiracles open, as the tracheal systems of most insects.
- honey locust — a thorny North American tree, Gleditsia triacanthos, of the legume family, having small, compound leaves and pods with a sweet pulp.
- honeysuckles — Plural form of honeysuckle.
- housecleaner — Someone employed to clean a house.
- incestuously — involving incest.
- inclusive of — including; taking into account
- inclusive or — the connective that gives the value true to a disjunction if either or both of the disjuncts are true
- inconclusive — not conclusive; not resolving fully all doubts or questions: inconclusive evidence.
- inconsumable — not consumable; incapable of being consumed.
- indecorously — not decorous; violating generally accepted standards of good taste or propriety; unseemly.
- infectiously — communicable by infection, as from one person to another or from one part of the body to another: infectious diseases.
- infelicitous — inapt, inappropriate, or awkward; malapropos: an infelicitous remark.
- interclusion — the act of intercluding
- jaculiferous — having dartlike spines.
- jocularities — the state or quality of being jocular.
- knucklebones — (in humans) any of the bones forming a knuckle of a finger.
- lane closure — the closing of a lane on a motorway
- laticiferous — bearing or containing latex.
- lay a course — to sail on a planned course without tacking
- le corbusier — (Charles Édouard Jeanneret) 1887–1965, Swiss architect in France.
- leiotrichous — Having smooth hair.
- leucocytosis — an increase in the number of white blood cells in the blood.
- leucopoiesis — the formation and development of white blood cells.
- leukocytosis — an increase in the number of white blood cells in the blood.
- licentiously — In a licentious manner, rowdily, overwhelmed by passion and without control of appetites (especially sexual appetites).