12-letter words containing o, u, l, e
- sub-religion — a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, especially when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs.
- subdelirious — having the symptoms of subdelirium; suffering from subdelirium
- subeditorial — of or relating to a subeditor, the work of a subeditor or a subeditorship
- subjectional — the act of subjecting.
- sublineation — an underlining
- submolecular — of or relating to or caused by molecules: molecular structure.
- subopercular — of or relating to the suboperculum
- suboperculum — a bone in fishes behind the operculum or gill covering
- subthreshold — (of a stimulus) too weak to produce a response.
- successional — the coming of one person or thing after another in order, sequence, or in the course of events: many troubles in succession.
- suit oneself — a set of clothing, armor, or the like, intended for wear together.
- sulfonylurea — any of a group of oral drugs, as tolbutamide, that stimulate the pancreas to secrete more insulin, used to treat diabetes
- sulphadoxine — an antibiotic drug of the sulphonamide group, commonly used in combination with pyrimethamine to treat malaria, and in combination with various drugs to treat certain infections
- sulphonamide — any of a class of organic compounds that are amides of sulphonic acids containing the group –SO2NH2 or a group derived from this. An important class of sulphonamides are the sulfa drugs
- super-polite — showing good manners toward others, as in behavior, speech, etc.; courteous; civil: a polite reply.
- supercilious — haughtily disdainful or contemptuous, as a person or a facial expression.
- supercooling — to cool (a liquid) below its freezing point without producing solidification or crystallization; undercool.
- superfrontal — a piece of cloth placed over an altar and frontal and hanging down a few inches over the front of the altar
- superordinal — relating to the superorder
- superovulate — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
- superpolymer — a superior polymer
- superposable — to place above or upon something else, or one upon another.
- suppletorily — supplying a deficiency.
- surmountable — to mount upon; get on the top of; mount upon and cross over: to surmount a hill.
- suspensorial — relating to a suspensorium
- svo language — a type of language that has basic subject-verb-object word order, as English, Chinese, or Spanish.
- take counsel — receive advice
- talent scout — a person whose business it is to recognize and recruit persons of marked aptitude for a certain field or occupation, especially in entertainment or sports.
- technicolour — brightly, showily, or garishly coloured; vividly noticeable
- telanthropus — a genus of fossil hominids, known from two fragmentary lower jaws found in the region of Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, South Africa.
- telautograph — a telegraphic device for reproducing handwriting, drawings, etc, the movements of an electromagnetically controlled pen at one end being transmitted along a line to a similar pen at the receiving end
- telecommuter — person: works from home
- telecomputer — teleprocessing.
- teleosaurian — of or relating to the teleosaur
- teleostomous — relating or belonging to the Teleostomi
- teleutospore — a spore of certain rust fungi, which carries the fungus through the winter and which, on germination, produces the promycelium.
- telharmonium — a musical keyboard instrument operating by alternating currents of electricity which, on impulse from the keyboard, produce music at a distant point via telephone lines.
- tellurometer — a surveying instrument using microwaves to measure distance.
- tenuirostral — pertaining to a group of birds Tenuirostres which have slender bills
- teutonically — of or relating to the ancient Teutons.
- the absolute — ultimate reality regarded as uncaused, unmodified, unified and complete, timeless, etc.
- the blue boy — a famous portrait by Gainsborough of a boy wearing a blue outfit
- the populars — cheap newspapers with mass circulation; the popular press
- the troubles — political unrest or public disturbances
- theoclymenus — (in the Odyssey) a seer who foretold the return of Odysseus and the death of Penelope's suitors.
- thermocouple — a device that consists of the junction of two dissimilar metallic conductors, as copper and iron, in which an electromotive force is induced when the conductors are maintained at different temperatures, the force being related to the temperature difference: used to determine the temperature of a third substance by connecting it to the junction of the metals and measuring the electromotive force produced.
- thiosulphate — any salt of thiosulphuric acid
- three-colour — of, relating to, or comprising a colour print or a photomechanical process in which a picture is reproduced by superimposing three prints from half-tone plates in inks corresponding to the three primary colours
- through-line — a theme or idea that runs from the beginning to the end of a book, film, etc
- thundercloud — cumulonimbus.