12-letter words containing s, t, e, r, n
- interstadial — a period of temporary retreat of ice during a glacial stage; a warming period.
- interstation — a place or position in which a person or thing is normally located.
- interstellar — Astronomy. situated or occurring between the stars: interstellar dust.
- intersterile — not able to produce offspring by interbreeding
- interstitial — pertaining to, situated in, or forming interstices.
- interstition — (obsolete) An intervening period of time; interval.
- interstitium — (medicine) An interstitial space within a tissue or organ.
- intertissued — interwoven
- intertwisted — Simple past tense and past participle of intertwist.
- intervarsity — any first-string team, especially in sports, that represents a school, college, university, or the like: He is on the varsity in tennis and in debating.
- interviewees — Plural form of interviewee.
- interviewers — Plural form of interviewer.
- intervillous — Between the villi.
- intervisible — (surveying) Mutually visible; each in sight of the other.
- interwishing — to want; desire; long for (usually followed by an infinitive or a clause): I wish to travel. I wish that it were morning.
- intolerances — Plural form of intolerance.
- intransigent — refusing to agree or compromise; uncompromising; inflexible.
- intransitive — noting or having the quality of an intransitive verb.
- intraosseous — (medicine) within a bone.
- intraspecies — existing or occurring within a species.
- intraveneous — Misspelling of intravenous.
- intravesical — Within the urinary bladder.
- intrepidness — resolutely fearless; dauntless: an intrepid explorer.
- intrinsicate — (obsolete) intricate.
- introspected — Simple past tense and past participle of introspect.
- introspector — to practice introspection; consider one's own internal state or feelings.
- introversion — the act of introverting or the state of being introverted.
- introversive — the act of introverting or the state of being introverted.
- introvertish — Introverted.
- invert sugar — a mixture of the dextrorotatory forms of glucose and fructose, formed naturally in fruits and produced artificially in syrups or fondants by treating cane sugar with acids.
- invertedness — Quality of being inverted.
- investigator — to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.
- investitures — Plural form of investiture.
- ionospherist — Someone who studies the ionosphere.
- iridescently — In an iridescent manner.
- iron pyrites — pyrite; fool's gold.
- iron sulfate — ferrous sulfate.
- irredentists — Plural form of irredentist.
- irresistance — (archaic) passive submission; lack of resistance.
- irresolution — lack of resolution; lack of decision or purpose; vacillation.
- isosthenuria — the inability of the kidneys to dilute or concentrate urine
- isotretinoin — a yellowish-orange to orange crystalline powder, C 20 H 28 O 2 , used in the treatment of cystic acne.
- jan gossaert — Jan [Flemish yahn] /Flemish yɑn/ (Show IPA), (Jan Gossaert or Gossart) 1478?–1533? Flemish painter.
- jeffersonite — (mineralogy) A variety of pyroxene of olive-green color passing into brown. It contains zinc.
- jersey giant — one of a breed of large domestic chickens raised primarily for their meat, originally black but now with a white variety, developed in New Jersey by interbreeding Langshans and large Asiatic fowl.
- joseph brant — Joseph (Thayendanegea) 1742–1807, Mohawk Indian chief who fought on the side of the British in the American Revolution.
- jurisprudent — versed in jurisprudence.
- jus naturale — the rules and principles of law derived from the customs and legislation of Rome, as opposed to those derived from the customs of all nations (jus gentium) or from fundamental ideas of right and wrong implicit in the human mind (jus naturale)
- kentish fire — prolonged clapping by an audience, especially in unison, indicating impatience or disapproval.
- keratogenous — producing horn or a horny substance.