12-letter words containing r, u, n, s, o
- discouraging — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
- disenamoured — to disillusion; disenchant (usually used in the passive and followed by of or with): He was disenamored of working in the city.
- dishonouring — Present participle of dishonour.
- disinvoltura — Self-assurance; lack of constraint.
- distribution — an act or instance of distributing.
- dodecandrous — (of a plant) having twelve stamens
- dolorousness — The quality of being dolorous.
- dreadnoughts — Plural form of dreadnought.
- droughtiness — Dryness of the weather; lack of rain.
- dust counter — any instrument used to measure the size and number of dust particles per unit volume in the atmosphere.
- echo sounder — a sonar instrument that uses echolocation to measure depths under water.
- electrotonus — the change in the state of irritability and conductivity of a nerve or muscle caused by the passage of an electric current
- encrustation — The action of encrusting or state of being encrusted.
- endovascular — Within a blood vessel.
- enormousness — Great size or magnitude.
- enterococcus — A streptococcus of a group that occurs naturally in the intestine but causes inflammation and blood infection if introduced elsewhere in the body (e.g., by injury or surgery).
- enteropneust — a worm-like marine invertebrate
- enumerations — Plural form of enumeration.
- equinumerous — having the same number of members
- eurocentrism — Alternative capitalization of Eurocentrism.
- eurosterling — sterling as part of a European holding
- exclusionary — restrictive or elitist
- excursioning — Present participle of excursion.
- excursionist — A person who goes on excursions; a traveller or tourist.
- excursionize — to go on an excursion or excursions
- executioners — Plural form of executioner.
- extraneously — In an extraneous manner.
- fair housing — the sale and rental of private housing free of discriminatory practices or policies.
- fast neutron — a neutron produced by nuclear fission that has lost little energy by collision; a neutron with a kinetic energy in excess of 0.1 MeV
- favouredness — the quality of or extent to which something is favoured
- first cousin — cousin (def 1).
- flindermouse — (obsolete) A bat (the mammal).
- flourishment — The act or state of flourishing.
- fluoresceine — Alternative spelling of fluorescein.
- fluorescence — the emission of radiation, especially of visible light, by a substance during exposure to external radiation, as light or x-rays. Compare phosphorescence (def 1).
- fluorescents — Plural form of fluorescent.
- flusteration — (colloquial, dated) The act of flustering, or the state of being flustered.
- forcefulness — full of force; powerful; vigorous; effective: a forceful plea for peace.
- formulations — Plural form of formulation.
- fortran-plus — Fortran for the DAP parallel machine, implements many Fortran 90 features.
- foundry sand — silica-based sand mixed with clay, oil, etc, to improve its cohesive strength, used in moulding
- four-corners — a point in the SW U.S., at the intersection of 37° N latitude and 109° W longitude, where the boundaries of four states—Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico—meet: the only such point in the U.S.
- fourdriniers — Plural form of fourdrinier.
- fourfoldness — the quality of consisting of four parts
- frondiferous — Producing fronds.
- frontrunners — Plural form of frontrunner.
- 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).
- frustrations — Plural form of frustration.
- furunculosis — the condition characterized by the presence of boils.
- gainsborough — Thomas, 1727–88, English painter.