12-letter words containing s, e, c, r, t
- undistracted — not distracted; concentrating
- unforecasted — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- unhysterical — not showing or suggesting any hysteria; controlled; sensible; calm;
- uninstructed — not instructed; uninformed; uneducated.
- unit process — any of a number of standard operations, such as filtration or distillation, that are widely used in various chemical and process industries
- unobstructed — to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
- unpersecuted — not persecuted
- unrespectful — full of, characterized by, or showing politeness or deference: a respectful reply.
- unrespective — not attentive; unheeding
- unrestricted — confined; limited.
- unsculptured — not resembling a sculpture
- unstructured — lacking a clearly defined structure or organization: an unstructured conference; an unstructured school environment.
- urethroscope — an apparatus for observing the urethra.
- urethroscopy — observation of the urethra by a urethroscope.
- uv ceti star — flare star.
- varicosities — the state or condition of being varicose.
- vector boson — one of the three particles that are believed to transmit the weak force: the positively charged W particle, the negatively charged W particle, and the neutral Z 0 particle.
- vector space — an additive group in which addition is commutative and with which is associated a field of scalars, as the field of real numbers, such that the product of a scalar and an element of the group or a vector is defined, the product of two scalars times a vector is associative, one times a vector is the vector, and two distributive laws hold.
- velcro strip — a strip or roll of Velcro, able to be cut to the required length
- verticalness — the quality or state of being vertical; uprightness
- vesicularity — the quality or state of being vesicular
- vindicatress — a female vindicator
- visceromotor — of or relating to the normal movements of the viscera, especially the digestive tract.
- viscerotonia — a personality type characterized by hedonism and conviviality: said to be correlated with an endomorph body type
- viscerotonic — of, relating to, or possessing the character traits typical of viscerotonia
- vociferosity — the characteristic of being vociferous
- waistcoateer — a prostitute
- watchstander — (US) A person who is on watch on a ship.
- water closet — an enclosed room or compartment containing a toilet bowl fitted with a mechanism for flushing.
- water locust — a spiny tree, Gleditsia aquatica, of the legume family, native to the southeastern coastal U.S., having pinnate leaves, greenish-yellow, bell-shaped flowers, and long-stalked, thin pods.
- watercolours — Plural form of watercolour.
- watercourses — Plural form of watercourse.
- weathercasts — Plural form of weathercast.
- weathercocks — Plural form of weathercock.
- west african — of or relating to West Africa
- west chester — a city in SE Pennsylvania.
- west warwick — a town in E Rhode Island, near Providence.
- western cape — a province of W South Africa, created in 1994 from the SW part of Cape Province: agriculture (esp fruit), wine making, fishing, various industries in Cape Town. Capital: Cape Town. Pop: 5 822 734 (2011 est). Area: 129 370 sq km (49 950 sq miles)
- white spruce — a spruce, Picea glauca, of northern North America, having bluish-green needles and silvery-brown bark.
- windcheaters — Plural form of windcheater.
- winter cress — any cress belonging to the genus Barbarea, of the mustard family, having lyrate leaves and yellow flowers.
- wire cutters — tool: pliers
- wonderstruck — (of a person) experiencing a sudden feeling of awed delight or wonder.
- wretchedness — very unfortunate in condition or circumstances; miserable; pitiable.
- wristwatches — Plural form of wristwatch.
- writeacourse — (language) A CAI language for IBM 360.
- writing case — a portable folder with compartments for holding writing materials
- yachtsperson — A yachtsman or yachtswoman.
- zero defects — quality control that strives for a perfect production process, resulting in flawless products.
- zoochemistry — the branch of chemistry dealing with the constituents of the animal body; animal chemistry.