12-letter words containing s, u, r, n, o
- outthrusting — Present participle of outthrust.
- over-anxious — excessively anxious.
- overconsumed — Simple past tense and past participle of overconsume.
- overdiscount — to discount excessively
- overfullness — The state of being excessively or abnormally full.
- overgenerous — liberal in giving or sharing; unselfish: a generous patron of the arts; a generous gift.
- overissuance — the act of issuing in excessive amounts
- oversanguine — too optimistic
- paragnathous — (of certain vertebrates) having the upper and lower jaws of equal length
- paranthropus — (sometimes initial capital letter) a member of the former genus Paranthropus.
- parsimonious — characterized by or showing parsimony; frugal or stingy.
- passionfruit — any edible fruit of a passionflower, as the maypop.
- patroclinous — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the paternal parent (opposed to matrocliny).
- percussional — of or relating to percussion
- percutaneous — administered, removed, or absorbed by way of the skin, as an injection, needle biopsy, or transdermal drug.
- perfusionist — a medical technician or nurse who monitors and operates equipment that oxygenates the blood, as during open-heart surgery
- perniciously — causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful: pernicious teachings; a pernicious lie.
- perquisition — an intensive and meticulous examination, pursuit, or hunt for something
- pertinacious — holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute.
- petrobrusian — a member of a 12th-century sect in S France that rejected the Mass, infant baptism, prayers for the dead, sacerdotalism, the veneration of the cross, and the building of churches.
- picornavirus — any of a group of small, RNA-containing viruses of the family Picornaviridae, infectious to humans and other animals, and including the poliovirus and the rhinoviruses that cause the common cold.
- pleurogenous — Anatomy. pertaining to or originating from the pleura.
- point source — a source of radiation sufficiently distant compared to its length and width that it can be considered as a point.
- pollen brush — the mass of stiff hairs on the legs or abdomen of an insect, for collecting pollen.
- polyneuritis — inflammation of several nerves at the same time; multiple neuritis.
- popular song — a song that is written to have an immediate and wide appeal and is usually popular for only a short time, but that sometimes is of a sufficiently high quality to become part of the permanent repertoire of popular music and jazz. Compare standard (def 12).
- porcelainous — made of or resembling porcelain
- porcelaneous — a strong, vitreous, translucent ceramic material, biscuit-fired at a low temperature, the glaze then fired at a very high temperature.
- portentously — of the nature of a portent; momentous.
- post-nuclear — pertaining to or involving atomic weapons: nuclear war.
- postconsumer — noting or pertaining to a product after it has been used and recycled: a chair made of postconsumer plastic.
- powerfulness — having or exerting great power or force.
- pratincolous — living in a meadow.
- pre-discount — to deduct a certain amount from (a bill, charge, etc.): All bills that are paid promptly will be discounted at two percent.
- precancerous — showing pathological changes that may be preliminary to malignancy.
- preciousness — of high price or great value; very valuable or costly: precious metals.
- preconscious — Psychoanalysis. absent from but capable of being readily brought into consciousness.
- preconstruct — to construct beforehand
- pregustation — the act of tasting beforehand
- press button — a button on a phone dial which you press
- print unions — the trade unions within the printing industry
- prison guard — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
- proconsulate — the office or term of office of a proconsul.
- profoundness — penetrating or entering deeply into subjects of thought or knowledge; having deep insight or understanding: a profound thinker.
- progymnasium — (in Europe) a school that prepares pupils for secondary education (the gymnasium)
- pronouncings — utterances, esp of an official or judgmental nature
- prostituting — a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money; whore; harlot.
- prostitution — the act or practice of engaging in sexual intercourse for money.
- pseudorandom — noting or pertaining to random numbers generated by a definite computational process to satisfy a statistical test.
- pterosaurian — a pterosaur