12-letter words containing s, i, t, u, n
- attitudinous — (informal) Having a bold and possibly unfriendly attitude; sassy.
- attributions — Plural form of attribution.
- auction sale — an instance of items being sold by auction
- auction site — a commercial website on which items are sold by internet auction
- auscultating — Present participle of auscultate.
- auscultation — the diagnostic technique in medicine of listening to the various internal sounds made by the body, usually with the aid of a stethoscope
- austenitized — to form austenite in (a ferrous alloy) by heating.
- austin friar — one of the Hermits of St. Augustine.
- australasian — Australasian means belonging or relating to Australasia or to its people.
- austronesian — of or relating to Austronesia, its peoples, or their languages
- autoanalysis — Psychoanalysis. self-analysis.
- autohypnosis — the process or result of self-induced hypnosis
- backsolution — The process or result of backsolving.
- bankruptcies — Plural form of bankruptcy.
- bathing suit — A bathing suit is a piece of clothing which people wear when they go swimming.
- bismuthinite — a grey mineral consisting of bismuth sulphide in orthorhombic crystalline form. It occurs in veins associated with tin, copper, silver, lead, etc, and is a source of bismuth. Formula: Bi2S3
- bit stuffing — (protocol) A protocol which guarantees the receiver of synchronous data can recover the sender's clock. When the data stream sent contains a large number of adjacent bits which cause no transition of the signal, the receiver cannot adjust its clock to maintain proper synchronised reception. To eliminate the possibility of such a pathological case, when a preset number of transitionless bits have been transmitted, a bit which does cause a transition is "stuffed" (transmitted) by the sender. The receiver follows the same protocol and removes the stuffed bit after the specified number of transitionless bits, but can use the stuffed bit to recover the sender's clock. The advantage of bit stuffing is that only a bit (not a byte) is inserted in the data stream, and that only when the content of the data stream fails to provide a timing signal to the receiver. Thus very nearly 100% of the bits transported are useful data. In contrast, asynchronous transmission of data "throws away" a start bit and one or more stop bits for each data byte sent.
- biting louse — any wingless insect of the order Mallophaga, such as the chicken louse: external parasites of birds and mammals with biting mouthparts
- blastulation — the process of blastula formation
- blind summit — a point on a road where a vehicle approaching the top of a hill or incline cannot see vehicles approaching up the other side of the hill
- blockbusting — A blockbusting film or book is one that is very successful, usually because it is very exciting.
- blue stilton — a rich cheese made from whole milk, blue-veined and very strong in flavour
- blue-singlet — working-class
- bluestocking — A bluestocking is an intellectual woman.
- brains trust — a group of knowledgeable people who discuss topics in public or on radio or television
- bunco artist — a confidence trickster or con artist
- burnt sienna — a reddish-brown dye or pigment obtained by roasting raw sienna in a furnace
- bush singlet — a black woollen singlet often worn by farm labourers
- bushfighting — fighting in the bush
- calculations — Plural form of calculation.
- calumniators — Plural form of calumniator.
- canterburies — Plural form of canterbury.
- captiousness — The state of being captious.
- car industry — the industry concerned with the manufacture and selling of automobiles
- cater-cousin — a close friend
- causationism — the theory of universal causation
- causationist — a person who believes in the theory of universal causation
- cautiousness — showing, using, or characterized by caution: a cautious man; To be cautious is often to show wisdom.
- cementitious — of, relating to, or characteristic of cement
- chauvinistic — If you describe someone as chauvinistic, you believe that they think their own country is more important and morally better than any other.
- chinese tour — a tour in which visitors are shown only what those in charge want them to see.
- cinque ports — an association of ports on the SE coast of England, originally consisting of Hastings, Romney, Hythe, Dover, and Sandwich, which from late Anglo-Saxon times provided ships for the king's service in return for the profits of justice in their courts. The Cinque Ports declined with the growth of other ports and surrendered their charters in 1685
- circulations — Plural form of circulation.
- circumstance — The circumstances of a particular situation are the conditions which affect what happens.
- civil unrest — Civil unrest is fighting between different groups of people living in the same country, and losses caused by this fighting are usually not covered by insurance.
- claustration — the act of confining to a small space (usually a cloister)
- cluster pine — a pine tree, Pinus pinaster, having long thick needles and large clustered cones, native to the Mediterranean coastal regions.
- co-extrusion — simultaneous extrusion of two or more different yet compatible metals or plastics through the same die.
- cocaine bust — an arrest for the possession of cocaine
- colourations — Plural form of colouration.