12-letter words containing p, o, s, e, u, r
- export house — a company that does not manufacture goods but is instead concerned solely with the financing or handling of their export
- fire support — support given by artillery and aircraft to infantry and armored vehicles.
- fluoroscoped — Simple past tense and past participle of fluoroscope.
- fluoroscopes — Plural form of fluoroscope.
- focus puller — the member of a camera crew who adjusts the focus of the lens as the camera is tracked in or out
- forepleasure — the aggregate of pleasurable sensations that lead to a heightened physical or emotional response, as of those aroused in sexual intercourse that lead to an orgasm.
- four-striper — a captain in the U.S. Navy.
- geopressured — subject to geostatic pressure.
- golden syrup — treacle (def 2b).
- gospel truth — an unquestionably true statement, fact, etc.
- groupuscules — Plural form of groupuscule.
- hippo regius — a seaport of ancient Numidia: St. Augustine was bishop here a.d. 395–430; the site of modern Annaba, in Algeria.
- house prices — the sums in money for which houses may be bought or sold
- house spider — any largish dark spider of the genus Tegenaria that is common in houses, such as the cardinal spider
- housekeepers — Plural form of housekeeper.
- housepainter — A professional painter of houses.
- hyperarousal — A state of heightened psychological and physiological tension resulting in reduced pain tolerance, anxiety, excessive response to sensory stimulation, insomnia, and fatigue.
- imperviously — In an impervious manner; impenetrably; impermeably.
- interspinous — located between spines, esp between the vertebrae
- interspousal — Often, spousals. the ceremony of marriage; nuptials.
- jeopardously — with risk or peril
- jump shooter — a player skilled at jump shots.
- jury process — the writ used to summon jurors
- leprosariums — Plural form of leprosarium.
- 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.
- ligniperdous — (of insects) wood-destroying
- 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
- loudspeakers — Plural form of loudspeaker, especially a pair for a left and right channel.
- low-pressure — having or involving a low or below-normal pressure, as steam or water.
- macropterous — having long or large wings or fins.
- mass-produce — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
- 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.
- mesomorphous — mesomorphic
- metamorphous — metamorphic.
- microcapsule — a tiny capsule, 20–150 microns in diameter, used for slow-release application of drugs, pesticides, flavors, etc.
- micropterous — (of certain animals, esp some types of ant) having small reduced wings
- mispronounce — Pronounce (a word) incorrectly.
- monospermous — having one seed.
- morris jesup — Cape, a cape of N Greenland, on the Arctic Ocean, 440 miles (710 km) from the North Pole: northernmost land point in the world.
- mousetrapped — Simple past tense and past participle of mousetrap.
- mucoproteins — Plural form of mucoprotein.
- multipurpose — able to be used for several purposes: a multipurpose lawn spray.
- necrophagous — That eats dead or decaying animal flesh.
- necrophilous — displaying a preference for dead tissue, esp of certain bacteria and insects
- necrophorous — denoting animals, such as certain beetles, that carry away the bodies of dead animals
- neuroleptics — Plural form of neuroleptic.
- neuropathies — Plural form of neuropathy.
- neuropathist — a specialist in treating diseases of the nervous system; a neurologist