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12-letter words containing s, u, n, l

  • blue springs — a town in W Missouri.
  • blue stilton — a rich cheese made from whole milk, blue-veined and very strong in flavour
  • blue-singlet — working-class
  • bluesnarfing — the practice of using one Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone to steal contact details, ring tones, images, etc from another
  • bluestocking — A bluestocking is an intellectual woman.
  • bounce flash — a flash lamp designed to produce a bounced flash.
  • bourne shell — (sh, Shellish). The original command-line interpreter shell and script language for Unix written by S.R. Bourne of Bell Laboratories in 1978. sh has been superseded for interactive use by the Berkeley C shell, csh but still widely used for writing shell scripts. There were even earlier shells, see glob. [Details?]
  • brunelleschi — Filippo (fiˈlippo). 1377–1446, Italian architect, whose works in Florence include the dome of the cathedral, the Pazzi chapel of Santa Croce, and the church of San Lorenzo
  • bull session — A bull session is an informal conversation among a small group of people.
  • bush singlet — a black woollen singlet often worn by farm labourers
  • businesslike — If you describe someone as businesslike, you mean that they deal with things in an efficient way without wasting time.
  • byelorussian — Byelorussian means belonging or relating to Byelorussia or to its people or culture.
  • calculations — Plural form of calculation.
  • calumniators — Plural form of calumniator.
  • calumniously — in a calumnious manner
  • carnal abuse — Law. any lascivious contact with the sexual organs of a child by an adult, especially without sexual intercourse.
  • cash journal — cashbook.
  • cash-in-lieu — Cash-in-lieu is payment of cash instead of stock when a stock splits or changes and the shareholder only owns a partial share.
  • celebutantes — Plural form of celebutante.
  • censoriously — In a censorious manner.
  • channel surf — to change from one channel on a television set to another with great or unusual frequency, especially by using a remote control.
  • channel-surf — to switch TV channels repeatedly using a remote-control device, usually so as to sample brief segments of programs
  • chaplinesque — characteristic of or resembling the comedy or filmmaking style of Charlie Chaplin.
  • charnelhouse — Alternative form of charnel house.
  • cheerfulness — full of cheer; in good spirits: a cheerful person.
  • churlishness — The state of being churlish.
  • circularness — The state or quality of being circular.
  • circulations — Plural form of circulation.
  • 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.
  • clangorously — In a clangorous manner; ringingly.
  • claustration — the act of confining to a small space (usually a cloister)
  • cliquishness — The state of being cliquish.
  • closed union — a labor union in which admission of new members is restricted by rigid requirements.
  • closet queen — a man who is homosexual but does not admit the fact
  • cluelessness — The state of being clueless.
  • cluster pine — a pine tree, Pinus pinaster, having long thick needles and large clustered cones, native to the Mediterranean coastal regions.
  • colorfulness — the quality of being colourful
  • colourations — Plural form of colouration.
  • column dress — a very straight, close-fitting dress.
  • column shift — A column shift is a gearshift lever mounted on the steering column.
  • conclusional — the end or close; final part.
  • conclusively — serving to settle or decide a question; decisive; convincing: conclusive evidence.
  • connubialism — the state of being married
  • consensually — formed or existing merely by consent: a consensual transaction.
  • consequently — Consequently means as a result.
  • constabulary — In Britain and some other countries, a constabulary is the police force of a particular area.
  • consultation — A consultation is a meeting which is held to discuss something. Consultation is discussion about something.
  • consultative — A consultative committee or document gives advice or makes proposals about a particular problem or subject.
  • consultatory — Formed by, or resulting from, consultation; advisory.
  • consummately — to bring to a state of perfection; fulfill.
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