12-letter words containing o, u, t, s, p
- isotopologue — (chemistry) any of a group of compounds only differing in their isotopic composition; for example water and heavy water.
- jump shooter — a player skilled at jump shots.
- jumpstations — Plural form of jumpstation.
- kourotrophos — (archaeology) a class of Mycenaean terracotta figurines depicting women carrying children.
- leptospermum — any of various shrubs or trees of the genus Leptospermum, of the myrtle family, native to Australia and adjacent areas and often cultivated as ornamentals in milder climates.
- life support — equipment to sustain a patient's life
- life-support — of or relating to equipment or measures that sustain or artificially substitute for essential body functions, as breathing or disposal of body wastes: Without life-support equipment, the patient might die.
- lithophagous — swallowing or feeding on stones
- lithophilous — (of animals and plants) inhabiting or growing in stony places
- lithospermum — any annual or perennial herbs and small shrubs of the genus lithospermum, of the borage family, native to Europe, N America, and northern Asia, and having white, blue, or yellow flowers
- lookout post — a place from which a guard or sentry can keep watch
- loutrophoros — Greek and Roman Antiquity. a water jar, characterized by an elongated neck and flaring mouth, used to carry water for the marriage bath and set on the tomb of a person who had been unmarried.
- lumpectomies — Plural form of lumpectomy.
- macropterous — having long or large wings or fins.
- magnetopause — the boundary between the earth's magnetosphere and interplanetary space, about 40,000 miles (65,000 km) above the earth, marked by an abrupt decrease in the earth's magnetic induction.
- manipulators — Plural form of manipulator.
- meganthropus — a proposed genus of extinct, late lower Pleistocene primates based on two large lower jaws found in Java, and believed to be either Australopithecine or human.
- metamorphous — metamorphic.
- micropterous — (of certain animals, esp some types of ant) having small reduced wings
- mobius strip — a continuous, one-sided surface formed by twisting one end of a rectangular strip through 180° about the longitudinal axis of the strip and attaching this end to the other.
- monopetalous — gamopetalous.
- montes pubis — mons pubis
- mount pisgah — the mountain slopes to the northeast of the Dead Sea, from one of which, Mount Nebo, Moses viewed Canaan
- mount scopus — a mountain in central Israel, east of Jerusalem: a N extension of the Mount of Olives; site of the Hebrew University (1925). Height: 834 m (2736 ft)
- mountaintops — Plural form of mountaintop.
- mousetrapped — Simple past tense and past participle of mousetrap.
- mucopeptides — Plural form of mucopeptide.
- mucoproteins — Plural form of mucoprotein.
- multipurpose — able to be used for several purposes: a multipurpose lawn spray.
- mutton chops — side whiskers trimmed in the shape of chops, widening out from the temples
- neuroleptics — Plural form of neuroleptic.
- neuropathies — Plural form of neuropathy.
- neuropathist — a specialist in treating diseases of the nervous system; a neurologist
- neuroplastic — Of or pertaining to neuroplasticity.
- neuropterist — an entomologist specializing in neuropteran insects
- neuropterous — belonging or pertaining to the Neuroptera, an order of insects characterized by four membranous wings having netlike venation, comprising the ant lions, lacewings, dobsonflies, alderflies, fishflies, snakeflies, mantispids, and spongillaflies.
- neurotropism — the quality of being neurotropic.
- neutrophiles — (of a cell or cell part) having an affinity for neutral dyes.
- neutrosophic — Neutrosophy
- neutrosphere — the part of the atmosphere whose constituents are, for the most part, electrically neutral, extending from the earth's surface to the base of the ionosphere.
- nitrophilous — (of plants) growing in soil well supplied with nitrogen
- nonspiritual — Not spiritual.
- obreptitious — having the characteristics of acquiring something by deceitful means
- obstreperous — resisting control or restraint in a difficult manner; unruly.
- octopetalous — containing or consisting of eight petals
- octosepalous — having or consisting of eight sepals
- on the stump — If politicians are on the stump, they are campaigning for an election.
- open cluster — a comparatively young, irregularly shaped group of stars, often numbering up to several hundred, and held together by mutual gravitation; usually found along the central plane of the Milky Way and other galaxies.
- ophiolatrous — of, relating to, or practising snake-worshipping
- opportunists — Plural form of opportunist.