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12-letter words containing r, o, m, u, s

  • nurserywoman — a woman who owns or operates a plant nursery.
  • nurserywomen — Plural form of nurserywoman.
  • nursing home — a private residential institution equipped to care for persons unable to look after themselves, as the aged or chronically ill.
  • oamaru stone — a kind of limestone, of building quality, found at Oamaru on South Island, New Zealand
  • obscurantism — opposition to the increase and spread of knowledge.
  • odd-man rush — an attacking move when the defence is outnumbered by the opposing team
  • old guardism — political conservatism.
  • ombrophilous — (of plants) tolerant of wet conditions
  • ombrophobous — (of plants) not able to tolerate wet conditions
  • ombudsperson — ombudsman (def 2).
  • omnivorously — eating both animal and plant foods.
  • osco-umbrian — a group of languages, usually classified as Italic, that contains Oscan and Umbrian.
  • outmaneuvers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outmaneuver.
  • overconsumed — Simple past tense and past participle of overconsume.
  • pachydermous — any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
  • parsimonious — characterized by or showing parsimony; frugal or stingy.
  • periostracum — the external, chitinlike covering of the shell of certain mollusks that protects the limy portion from acids.
  • pityrosporum — a genus of fungi that live on the skin, esp that of the scalp and face, present in conditions such as dandruff and dermatitis
  • pleomorphous — characterized by pleomorphism
  • plumbiferous — yielding or containing lead.
  • polymorphous — having, assuming, or passing through many or various forms, stages, or the like.
  • polyomavirus — any of a genus (Polyomavirus) of papovaviruses that naturally infect wild and laboratory mice, and that cause tumors when injected into newborn mice
  • postconsumer — noting or pertaining to a product after it has been used and recycled: a chair made of postconsumer plastic.
  • praseodymium — a rare-earth, metallic, trivalent element, named from its green salts. Symbol: Pr; atomic weight: 140.91; atomic number: 59; specific gravity: 6.77 at 20°C.
  • presumptuous — full of, characterized by, or showing presumption or readiness to presume in conduct or thought, as by saying or doing something without right or permission.
  • primulaceous — belonging to the plant family Primulaceae.
  • progymnasium — (in Europe) a school that prepares pupils for secondary education (the gymnasium)
  • promuscidate — shaped like a proboscis
  • pseudamphora — a Mycenaean vase having a spherical body, a spout on the shoulder, and a handle, curving across the top, supported by a solid conical neck.
  • pseudomartyr — someone falsely or inaccurately called a martyr
  • pseudorandom — noting or pertaining to random numbers generated by a definite computational process to satisfy a statistical test.
  • quadrumanous — four-handed; having all four feet adapted for use as hands, as monkeys.
  • quasi-normal — conforming to the standard or the common type; usual; not abnormal; regular; natural.
  • querimonious — Complaining; querulous. (from 17th c.).
  • rambunctious — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
  • ramentaceous — resembling or covered with ramenta.
  • reassumption — the act or process of reassuming something
  • reductionism — the theory that every complex phenomenon, especially in biology or psychology, can be explained by analyzing the simplest, most basic physical mechanisms that are in operation during the phenomenon.
  • repositorium — a place for the storage of valuables, as in an ancient Roman temple or a church.
  • resubmission — Law. an agreement between parties involved in a dispute, to abide by the decision of an arbitrator or arbitrators.
  • rous sarcoma — a malignant tumor occurring in the connective tissue of poultry, caused by a transmissible RNA-containing virus.
  • run commands — (operating system)   The expansion of the file name suffix, "rc", common to many Unix configuration files, e.g. .newsrc, .cshrc, .twmrc, elmrc, etc. Always abbreviated to /R C/ when spoken. Note, "rc" is not a typical filename extension as it doesn't start with a dot. The suffix "rc" derives from a script-creation utility in CTSS called "runcom".
  • rusty memory — (storage, humour)   Mass-storage that uses iron-oxide-based magnetic media (especially magnetic tape and the pre-Winchester removable disk packs used in washing machines). Compare donuts.
  • salmon trout — a European trout, Salmo trutta.
  • salutatorium — a porch or room in a monastery or church serving as a meeting or almsgiving place for monks or priests and the laity.
  • samuel lover — Samuel, 1797–1868, Irish novelist, painter, and songwriter.
  • samuel morse — Jedidiah [jed-i-dahy-uh] /ˌdʒɛd ɪˈdaɪ ə/ (Show IPA), 1761–1826, U.S. geographer and Congregational clergyman (father of Samuel F. B. Morse).
  • samurai bond — a bond issued in Japan and denominated in yen, available for purchase by nonresidents of Japan
  • schussboomer — a skier who is skilled at schussing.
  • scissor jump — a type of jump involving a scissor-like movement of the legs
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