12-letter words containing r, u, n, i, t
- expenditures — Plural form of expenditure.
- extinguisher — Anything that extinguishes something; but especially a fire extinguisher.
- extrauterine — Existing, formed, or occurring outside the uterus.
- exulceration — the process of ulceration
- fault-finder — a person who habitually finds fault, complains, or objects, especially in a petty way.
- fire curtain — safety curtain.
- first cousin — cousin (def 1).
- flight nurse — a nurse in the U.S. Air Force who tends patients being transported by airplane.
- flourishment — The act or state of flourishing.
- fluoridating — Present participle of fluoridate.
- fluoridation — the addition of fluorides to the public water supply to reduce the incidence of tooth decay.
- fluorinating — Present participle of fluorinate.
- fluorination — (chemistry) The introduction of fluorine into a compound by means of a chemical reaction.
- flusteration — (colloquial, dated) The act of flustering, or the state of being flustered.
- formula unit — (of an ionic compound that does not form molecules, as most salts) the chemical formula with the least number of elements out of the set of empirical formulas having the same proportion of ions as elements: NaCl is the formula unit for the ionic compound sodium chloride.
- formulations — Plural form of formulation.
- fortruncible — A cross between Fortran and RUNCIBLE for the IBM 650. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
- foundationer — a person supported by funds from a foundation, or serving as a member of a foundation
- franc-tireur — a sharpshooter in the French army.
- free-cutting — (of a metal alloy) having good machinability: free-cutting steel.
- friction rub — the sound, heard through a stethoscope, made by the rubbing together of the two inflamed layers of pericardium in patients with pericarditis or of pleura in patients with pleurisy
- friend-court — amicus curiae.
- frontrunning — the practice by market makers of using advance information provided by their own investment analysts before it has been given to clients
- fructosamine — (organic compound) A chemical compound that can be considered the result of a reaction between fructose and ammonia or an amine (with a molecule of water being released).
- fruitfulness — producing good results; beneficial; profitable: fruitful investigations.
- frumentation — (in ancient Rome) a public donation of grain, often given to citizens during times of unease
- frustrations — Plural form of frustration.
- furnishments — Plural form of furnishment.
- futilitarian — believing that human hopes are vain, and human strivings unjustified.
- gastrulation — the formation of a gastrula.
- giant fulmar — either of two large white or brownish petrels of the genus Macronectes, of the Antarctic Ocean and adjacent seas.
- glucoprotein — glycoprotein.
- glutaredoxin — (enzyme) Any of a family of small redox enzymes that use glutathione as a cofactor.
- gran turismo — (of an automobile) certified as conforming to the specifications, as fuel capacity and engine displacement, for a class of standard automobiles (Gran Turismo) qualified to engage in various types of competitions. Abbreviation: GTO.
- granulations — Plural form of granulation.
- granulocytic — Of, or pertaining to, granulocytes.
- gratulations — a feeling of joy.
- graustarkian — of, like, or characteristic of colorful, implausible, highly melodramatic and romantic situations or circumstances
- grid current — the current that moves within the vacuum tube from the grid to the cathode.
- guaranteeing — a promise or assurance, especially one in writing, that something is of specified quality, content, benefit, etc., or that it will perform satisfactorily for a given length of time: a money-back guarantee.
- guardianista — a reader of the Guardian newspaper, seen as being typically left-wing, liberal, and politically correct
- guide center — a command to a marching formation to align itself behind a guide marching at the head of the formation.
- guilt-ridden — If a person is guilt-ridden, they feel very guilty about something.
- gut reaction — instinctive response
- gut-churning — nerve-wracking
- guttersnipes — Plural form of guttersnipe.
- gutwrenching — Alternative spelling of gut-wrenching.
- half-turning — split spindle.
- hallucinator — One whose judgment and acts are affected by hallucinations; one who errs on account of his hallucinations.
- harmoniumist — a person who plays a harmonium