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12-letter words containing r, a, u, s

  • over-jealous — feeling resentment against someone because of that person's rivalry, success, or advantages (often followed by of): He was jealous of his rich brother.
  • overcautious — excessively or unnecessarily cautious: Sometimes it doesn't pay to be overcautious in business.
  • overissuance — the act of issuing in excessive amounts
  • overpersuade — to persuade (a person) against his or her inclination or intention: By threats and taunts they had overpersuaded him to steal the car.
  • overpurchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
  • oversanguine — too optimistic
  • oversaturate — to cause (a substance) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance, through solution, chemical combination, or the like.
  • oyster sauce — thick oyster-flavoured Asian relish
  • pachycarpous — having a thick pericarp
  • pachydermous — any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
  • pan scrubber — a rough sponge, often made of steel wool, used for scrubbing saucepans, frying pans, etc
  • paper-pusher — a person who has a routine desk job.
  • paragnathous — (of certain vertebrates) having the upper and lower jaws of equal length
  • paranthropus — (sometimes initial capital letter) a member of the former genus Paranthropus.
  • parish house — a building used by a church chiefly for administrative and social purposes.
  • parlor house — (especially in the 19th and early 20th centuries) a brothel with a comfortable, often elaborately decorated parlor for the reception of clients.
  • parsimonious — characterized by or showing parsimony; frugal or stingy.
  • particulates — very small particles of a substance, esp those that are produced when fuel is burned
  • pasqueflower — an Old World plant, Anemone pulsatilla, of the buttercup family, having purple, crocuslike flowers blooming about Easter.
  • pass through — an act of passing.
  • pass-through — a windowlike opening, as one for passing food or dishes between a kitchen and a dining area.
  • passionfruit — any edible fruit of a passionflower, as the maypop.
  • pasteurising — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
  • pastry brush — a small, flat brush for coating pastry with butter, egg, etc.
  • pasture land — grassland used for grazing
  • pasture rose — a bristly-stemmed rose, Rosa carolina, of the eastern U.S., having slender, straight thorns and large, solitary, rose-pink flowers.
  • pastures new — If someone leaves for greener pastures, or in British English pastures new, they leave their job, their home, or the situation they are in for something they think will be much better.
  • patroclinous — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the paternal parent (opposed to matrocliny).
  • pearl primus — Pearl, 1919–1994, U.S. dancer, born in Trinidad.
  • percussional — of or relating to percussion
  • percutaneous — administered, removed, or absorbed by way of the skin, as an injection, needle biopsy, or transdermal drug.
  • periostracum — the external, chitinlike covering of the shell of certain mollusks that protects the limy portion from acids.
  • perpetualism — a belief in the permanence of a given thing; the belief that a given thing (e.g. the world, a political system) will last forever
  • perpetualist — someone who holds to any form of perpetualism
  • persian gulf — strait in the Indian Ocean
  • persuasively — able, fitted, or intended to persuade: a very persuasive argument.
  • pertinacious — holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute.
  • pervicacious — extremely willful; obstinate; stubborn.
  • petaliferous — bearing or having petals.
  • petrobrusian — a member of a 12th-century sect in S France that rejected the Mass, infant baptism, prayers for the dead, sacerdotalism, the veneration of the cross, and the building of churches.
  • phosphaturia — the presence of an excessive quantity of phosphates in the urine.
  • picornavirus — any of a group of small, RNA-containing viruses of the family Picornaviridae, infectious to humans and other animals, and including the poliovirus and the rhinoviruses that cause the common cold.
  • picture sash — a large window sash, as for a picture window.
  • polyomavirus — any of a genus (Polyomavirus) of papovaviruses that naturally infect wild and laboratory mice, and that cause tumors when injected into newborn mice
  • popular song — a song that is written to have an immediate and wide appeal and is usually popular for only a short time, but that sometimes is of a sufficiently high quality to become part of the permanent repertoire of popular music and jazz. Compare standard (def 12).
  • porcelainous — made of or resembling porcelain
  • porcelaneous — a strong, vitreous, translucent ceramic material, biscuit-fired at a low temperature, the glaze then fired at a very high temperature.
  • pork sausage — a sausage made with pork
  • post-nuclear — pertaining to or involving atomic weapons: nuclear war.
  • postfracture — taking place after a fracture
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