12-letter words containing s, e, r, n, i, t
- tradescantia — any plant of the American genus Tradescantia, widely cultivated for their striped variegated leaves: family Commelinaceae
- tragicalness — the quality or state of being tragic
- trainer sock — a sock designed to be worn with a training shoe, often cut low at the ankle so that very little shows above the shoe
- trainspotter — A trainspotter is someone who is very interested in trains and spends time going to stations and recording the numbers of the trains that they see.
- transaminase — any of a class of enzymes, occurring in most plant and animal tissue, that cause transamination.
- transcending — to rise above or go beyond; overpass; exceed: to transcend the limits of thought; kindness transcends courtesy.
- transcension — transcendence.
- transdialect — to translate (speech, writing, etc.) into a different dialect.
- transfection — the insertion into a cell of a bacterial plasmid that contains a foreign virus or genetic material.
- transfermium — having an atomic number greater than 100, the atomic number of fermium.
- transferring — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
- transgenesis — the transfer of human genes into animals or cultured cells, especially to produce molecules with therapeutic value.
- transilience — leaping or passing from one thing or state to another.
- transit shed — a building located on or near a pier (piershed) or wharf (wharf shed) used for short-term storage of cargo in transit.
- transitively — Grammar. having the nature of a transitive verb.
- transleithan — beyond the river Leitha, which once formed part of the boundary between Austria and Hungary
- transmigrate — to move or pass from one place to another.
- transmissive — the act or process of transmitting.
- transoceanic — extending across or traversing the ocean: a transoceanic cable.
- transpirable — to occur; happen; take place.
- transponible — capable of being transposed.
- transpontine — across or beyond a bridge.
- transportive — to carry, move, or convey from one place to another.
- transumptive — of or relating to transumption
- transversion — a turning across, or into, something else
- transvestism — the practice, especially of men, of wearing clothing usually associated with the opposite sex for psychological gratification.
- transvestist — someone who partakes in transvestism
- transvestite — a person, especially a male, who assumes the dress and manner usually associated with the opposite sex.
- trendsetting — establishing or influencing a new trend or fashion.
- trepidations — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
- trickishness — the quality of being crafty
- trickstering — the practice of playing tricks
- triticalness — a trite quality or character
- turkmenistan — a republic in central in Asia, bordering the Caspian Sea, Iran, and Afghanistan. 188,417 sq. mi. (488,000 sq. km). Capital: Ashkhabad.
- twenty-first — next after the twentieth; being the ordinal number for 21.
- twenty-sixer — a liquor bottle of around 26 ounces (0.750 litre) capacity
- un-disrupted — to cause disorder or turmoil in: The news disrupted their conference.
- unadvertised — to announce or praise (a product, service, etc.) in some public medium of communication in order to induce people to buy or use it: to advertise a new brand of toothpaste.
- unartistlike — lacking artistic sensibilities and skills
- unchristened — not christened
- under-script — the letters or characters used in writing by hand; handwriting, especially cursive writing.
- undershirted — wearing an undershirt
- understating — to state or represent less strongly or strikingly than the facts would bear out; set forth in restrained, moderate, or weak terms: The casualty lists understate the extent of the disaster.
- undertakings — the act of a person who undertakes any task or responsibility.
- undistracted — not distracted; concentrating
- ungenerosity — the state of being ungenerous
- unhysterical — not showing or suggesting any hysteria; controlled; sensible; calm;
- uninstructed — not instructed; uninformed; uneducated.
- uninterested — having or showing no feeling of interest; indifferent.
- union buster — any of a group of persons hired by a company to disperse picketers, end a strike or job action, etc., especially by violence or intimidation.