12-letter words containing s, t, a, u, o, r
- housepainter — A professional painter of houses.
- housetrained — Simple past tense and past participle of housetrain.
- hydronautics — (nautical) The science of the design and construction of ships, their engines, and their instrumentation.
- hydrosulfate — a salt formed by the direct union of sulfuric acid with an organic base, especially an alkaloid, and usually more soluble than the base.
- hypogastrium — the lower and median part of the abdomen.
- ichthyosaurs — Plural form of ichthyosaur.
- idolatrously — In an idolatrous manner.
- illuminators — Plural form of illuminator.
- illustration — something that illustrates, as a picture in a book or magazine.
- illustrators — Plural form of illustrator.
- illustratory — Serving to illustrate.
- incrustation — an incrusting or being incrusted.
- instauration — renewal; restoration; renovation; repair.
- interacinous — situated between the acini of a gland or lung.
- interspousal — Often, spousals. the ceremony of marriage; nuptials.
- intraosseous — (medicine) within a bone.
- intraveneous — Misspelling of intravenous.
- iron sulfate — ferrous sulfate.
- isosthenuria — the inability of the kidneys to dilute or concentrate urine
- jocularities — the state or quality of being jocular.
- journalistic — of, relating to, or characteristic of journalists or journalism.
- judicatories — Plural form of judicatory.
- 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
- last honours — observances of respect at a funeral
- laticiferous — bearing or containing latex.
- litholatrous — of or relating to the worship of stones
- lubrications — Plural form of lubrication.
- lucubrations — Plural form of lucubration.
- macropterous — having long or large wings or fins.
- manipulators — Plural form of manipulator.
- mare nostrum — our sea, especially the Mediterranean to the ancient Romans.
- 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).
- 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.
- metachronous — Medicine/Medical. occurring at a different time than a similar event: metachronous tumors.
- metamorphous — metamorphic.
- metro-sexual — a heterosexual, usually urban male who pays much attention to his personal appearance and cultivates an upscale lifestyle.
- metrosexuals — Plural form of metrosexual.
- misconstrual — A misinterpretation of the meaning of something.
- misfortunate — Having suffered misfortune; pitiable.
- mount sorata — a mountain in W Bolivia, in the Andes: the highest mountain in the Cordillera Real, with two peaks, Ancohuma, 6550 m (21 490 ft), and Illampu, 6485 m (21 276 ft)
- mountaineers — Plural form of mountaineer.
- mouse arrest — (jargon) Getting busted for violating an on-line service's rule of conduct. "Sorry I couldn't get back to you. AOL put me under mouse arrest."
- mouse trails — (operating system) A feature (usually of Graphical User Interfaces) which causes the mouse pointer to leave a trail across the screen. This is done by keeping track of the last eight or so (maybe configurable) pointer positions, and only erasing the oldest. This means that at any time, there may be up to eight pointers on the screen, but if the mouse is still, they will all be in the same position, and so only one will be visible. When the mouse moves, it appears to leave a trail of pointers behind it, and this can dramatically increase the visibility of the pointer when using LCD screens. The older ones had such long persistence that a single mouse pointer, when moving, tended to be completely invisible, and on a cluttered screen, was very difficult to find.