12-letter words containing s, u, l, i
- nonfluencies — spoken or written with ease: fluent French.
- nonfrivolous — not frivolous
- noninclusion — the act of including.
- nonocclusive — occluding or tending to occlude.
- nonreligious — of, relating to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.
- nonspiritual — Not spiritual.
- nonuniversal — Not universal.
- np-hilarious — (humour) An algorithm whose complexity is a joke, either literally, as in BogoSort, or metaphorically.
- nucleocapsid — the nucleic acid core and surrounding capsid of a virus; the basic viral structure.
- nucleophiles — Plural form of nucleophile.
- nucleosidase — any of the class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of nucleosides.
- nucleotidase — a biochemical catalyst that facilitates the process of hydrolyzing or splitting a nucleotide and turning it into a phosphate and a nucleoside
- nullity suit — a law suit declaring a marriage to be legally void
- numerologist — A practitioner of numerology.
- numismatical — Alternative form of numismatic.
- nun's fiddle — trumpet marine.
- nuptial mass — a special mass said at a wedding.
- nutritiously — In a way that provides nutrition; nourishment; food.
- obsequiously — characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning: an obsequious bow.
- oil industry — petroleum-processing business
- oil pressure — force that keeps engine lubricated
- old guardism — political conservatism.
- old prussian — a Baltic language extinct since the 17th century. Abbreviation: OPruss.
- oleaginously — In an oleaginous manner.
- oleoresinous — pertaining to, characteristic of, or containing oleoresin.
- oligophagous — (especially of insects) eating only a few types of food.
- ombrophilous — (of plants) tolerant of wet conditions
- omnibus bill — a bill dealing with, or providing for many different things or cases
- omnivorously — eating both animal and plant foods.
- ophiolatrous — of, relating to, or practising snake-worshipping
- orichalceous — relating to or resembling orichalc
- outbuildings — Plural form of outbuilding.
- outlandishly — In an outlandish manner.
- outside lane — the lane on a motorway where overtaking of other vehicles is permitted and vehicles can travel fastest
- outside line — an external telephone connection
- outside loop — a loop during which the back of the airplane is on the outer side of the curve described by the course of flight.
- outside-left — a footballer who plays on the outside left wing of the field
- overflourish — to flourish excessively
- paludicolous — inhabiting marshland
- pansexualism — the belief that a sexual instinct drives all human behaviour
- pansexualist — someone who is pansexual
- pansexuality — Psychiatry. pertaining to the theory that all human behavior is based on sexuality.
- particulates — very small particles of a substance, esp those that are produced when fuel is burned
- patroclinous — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the paternal parent (opposed to matrocliny).
- pearl primus — Pearl, 1919–1994, U.S. dancer, born in Trinidad.
- percussional — of or relating to percussion
- perfidiously — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
- periselenium — the closest point of the orbit of a spacecraft to the moon
- perniciously — causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful: pernicious teachings; a pernicious lie.
- perpetualism — a belief in the permanence of a given thing; the belief that a given thing (e.g. the world, a political system) will last forever