12-letter words containing o, u, t, s, e, l
- questionable — of doubtful propriety, honesty, morality, respectability, etc.: questionable activities; in questionable taste.
- questionably — of doubtful propriety, honesty, morality, respectability, etc.: questionable activities; in questionable taste.
- questionless — unquestionable; doubtless: a questionless fact.
- quotableness — the condition or quality of being quotable
- 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.
- retropulsion — an abnormal tendency to walk backwards: a symptom of Parkinson's disease
- retropulsive — of or relating to retropulsion
- reupholstery — the materials used to cushion and cover furniture.
- rust-colored — of the color rust.
- sacred lotus — Indian lotus.
- salutiferous — salutary.
- 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.
- santalaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Santalaceae, a family of semiparasitic plants of Australia and Malaysia including sandalwood and quandong
- scout leader — the leader of a troop of Scouts
- scrobiculate — furrowed or pitted.
- 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.
- seclusionist — a person who prefers to be alone or secluded
- self-support — the supporting or maintaining of oneself or itself without reliance on outside aid.
- self-torture — the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge, as a means of getting a confession or information, or for sheer cruelty.
- 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.
- self-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
- sell-through — quantity of direct sales made
- semilustrous — partially or somewhat lustrous
- seropurulent — composed of or containing both serum and pus
- shawl tongue — kiltie (def 3).
- 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.
- silhouettist — a creator of silhouette portraits
- silver trout — a variety of cutthroat trout, Salmo clarki henshawi, having silvery coloration, inhabiting Lake Tahoe.
- simultaneous — existing, occurring, or operating at the same time; concurrent: simultaneous movements; simultaneous translation.
- slaughterous — murderous; destructive.
- slothfulness — sluggardly; indolent; lazy.
- slow neutron — a neutron with low kinetic energy, especially one slowed by the moderator in a nuclear reactor.
- snout beetle — weevil (def 1).
- sole custody — custody, as of a child whose parents are separated, in which one person has sole responsibility.
- solution set — the roots or values satisfying a given equation or inequality, or a set of simultaneous equations or inequalities
- somatopleure — the double layer formed by the association of the upper layer of the lateral plate of mesoderm with the overlying ectoderm, functioning in the formation of the body wall and amnion.
- somnambulate — to walk during sleep; sleepwalk.
- soul brother — a black male, especially a fellow black male.
- south euclid — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- south hadley — a city in W Massachusetts.
- south platte — a river flowing NE from central Colorado to the Platte River in W Nebraska. 424 miles (683 km) long.
- stelliferous — having or abounding with stars.
- stereocilium — any of the long, flexible microvilli that superficially resemble cilia and occur as a brush border or series of tufts on the surface of various epithelial tissues.
- stipulaceous — of, relating to, having, resembling, or living on stipules
- stone curlew — thick-knee.
- stormfulness — the quality or state of being stormful
- student loan — A student loan is a government loan that is available to students at a college or university in order to help them pay their expenses.