12-letter words containing s, o, u, a, r
- iracundulous — easily angered or irritable
- iron sulfate — ferrous sulfate.
- isosthenuria — the inability of the kidneys to dilute or concentrate urine
- jaculiferous — having dartlike spines.
- jeopardously — with risk or peril
- jocularities — the state or quality of being jocular.
- johannesburg — a city in S Transvaal, in the NE Republic of South Africa.
- journalistic — of, relating to, or characteristic of journalists or journalism.
- judicatories — Plural form of judicatory.
- junior class — the penultimate class in high school or college
- kalmar sound — a strait between SE Sweden and Öland Island. 85 miles (137 km) long; 14 miles (23 km) wide.
- katharevousa — The purist form of modern Greek used in traditional literary writing, as opposed to the form that is spoken and used in everyday writing (called demotic).
- keratogenous — producing horn or a horny substance.
- labour costs — the charges incurred when employing labour; the wages, etc, paid to workers, esp those employed to do physical work
- labour pains — the pains felt during the contractions of childbirth
- labouriously — Alternative form of laboriously.
- laboursaving — reducing (human) effort, hard work, or labour
- lane closure — the closing of a lane on a motorway
- languorously — characterized by languor; languid.
- last honours — observances of respect at a funeral
- laticiferous — bearing or containing latex.
- lay a course — to sail on a planned course without tacking
- leonardesque — of, relating to, or suggesting Leonardo da Vinci or the style of his paintings.
- leprosariums — Plural form of leprosarium.
- litholatrous — of or relating to the worship of stones
- long measure — Also called long meter. Prosody. a four-line stanza in iambic tetrameter, often used in hymns, with the second and fourth lines rhyming and sometimes the first and third lines rhyming as well.
- loudspeakers — Plural form of loudspeaker, especially a pair for a left and right channel.
- lubrications — Plural form of lubrication.
- lucubrations — Plural form of lucubration.
- lug foresail — a gaff foresail having no boom or sometimes a partial boom.
- macrocarpous — having large fruit.
- macronucleus — the larger of the two types of nuclei occurring in ciliate protozoans, having a multiple set of chromosomes and functioning in cell metabolism and protein synthesis.
- macrophagous — (of an animal) feeding on relatively large particles of food
- macropterous — having long or large wings or fins.
- malnourished — poorly or improperly nourished; suffering from malnutrition: thin, malnourished victims of the famine.
- malodorously — With a bad smell.
- manipulators — Plural form of manipulator.
- manoeuvrings — Plural form of manoeuvring.
- mare nostrum — our sea, especially the Mediterranean to the ancient Romans.
- marie louise — 1791–1847, 2nd wife of Napoleon I: empress of France; duchess of Parma 1816–31 (daughter of Francis II of Austria; mother of Napoleon II).
- marvellously — In a marvellous manner.
- mass-produce — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
- masturbation — the stimulation or manipulation of one's own genitals, especially to orgasm; sexual self-gratification.
- masturbatory — the stimulation or manipulation of one's own genitals, especially to orgasm; sexual self-gratification.
- matriclinous — Having mostly maternally-inherited characteristics.
- matroclinous — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the maternal parent (opposed to patrocliny).
- measure zero — the property of a set of points for which, given any small number, there exists a set of intervals such that each point of the given set is contained in at least one of the intervals and such that, essentially, the combined length of the intervals is less than the small number.
- meganthropus — a proposed genus of extinct, late lower Pleistocene primates based on two large lower jaws found in Java, and believed to be either Australopithecine or human.
- menstruation — the periodic discharge of blood and mucosal tissue from the uterus, occurring approximately monthly from puberty to menopause in nonpregnant women and females of other primate species.
- mesogastrium — the mesentery of the embryonic stomach.