12-letter words containing s, u
- duty chemist — a dispensing chemist's that is open to the public for a specific period when other chemists are closed
- dysfluencies — disfluency.
- dysfunctions — Plural form of dysfunction.
- dysregulated — Simple past tense and past participle of dysregulate.
- dzhugashvili — Iosif Vissarionovich [Russian yaw-syif-vyi-suh-ryi-aw-nuh-vyich] /Russian ˈyɔ syɪf vyɪ sə ryɪˈɔ nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), Stalin, Joseph.
- earth summit — a summit conference of 100 or more earth leaders debating global environmental and development issues, specifically the summit held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, but the term is also applied e.g. to a projected similar event in 2012
- east prussia — a former province in NE Germany: an enclave separated from Germany by the Polish Corridor; now divided between Poland and the Russian Federation. 14,283 sq. mi. (36,993 sq. km). Capital: Königsberg.
- east suffolk — a former administrative division of Suffolk county, in E England.
- easter bunny — rabbit: brings chocolate eggs
- eating house — a restaurant or other place where one can eat
- ebullioscopy — (physics) the measurement of the boiling point of liquids.
- echinococcus — any of a number of tapeworms of the genus Echinococcus whose larvae are parasitic in humans and domestic animals.
- echo sounder — a sonar instrument that uses echolocation to measure depths under water.
- edaphosaurus — Any of several dinosaurs of the family Edaphosauridae, from the Carboniferous and Permian periods, that had a distinctive dorsal sail or crest.
- educatedness — the quality of being educated
- educationese — the jargon associated with the field of education.
- educationist — a specialist in the theory and methods of education.
- effusiometer — an apparatus for determining rates of effusion of gases, usually used for measuring molecular weights
- effusiveness — unduly demonstrative; lacking reserve: effusive greetings; an effusive person.
- egads button — a switch that triggers the destruction in flight of a malfunctioning missile.
- eggdrop soup — a soup made by stirring beaten eggs into a simmering broth.
- eisteddfodau — Plural form of eisteddfod.
- ejaculations — Plural form of ejaculation.
- electrocutes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of electrocute.
- electrotonus — the change in the state of irritability and conductivity of a nerve or muscle caused by the passage of an electric current
- eleemosynous — Describes a gift or donation made as an act of charity or almsgiving.
- elocutionist — Someone who practices or teaches elocution.
- eloquentness — The quality of being eloquent.
- elucidations — Plural form of elucidation.
- elytrigerous — having elytra
- emasculating — Present participle of emasculate.
- emasculation — The act of depriving of virility, or the state of being so deprived; castration.
- embourgeoise — to make bourgeois
- emulsifiable — That can be emulsified, or applied in an emulsion.
- encapsulated — Simple past tense and past participle of encapsulate.
- encapsulates — Enclose (something) in or as if in a capsule.
- encrustation — The action of encrusting or state of being encrusted.
- encumbrances — Plural form of encumbrance.
- endogenously — In an endogenous manner.
- endonuclease — An enzyme that cleaves a polynucleotide chain by separating nucleotides other than the two end ones.
- endophyllous — enclosed in a leaf or sheath
- endovascular — Within a blood vessel.
- enduringness — The quality of being enduring; lastingness.
- engine house — a building in which engines, as fire engines, railroad locomotives, etc., are housed
- enormousness — Great size or magnitude.
- ensanguining — Present participle of ensanguine.
- enstructured — built into the structure of something
- entablatures — Plural form of entablature.
- enterococcus — A streptococcus of a group that occurs naturally in the intestine but causes inflammation and blood infection if introduced elsewhere in the body (e.g., by injury or surgery).
- enteropneust — a worm-like marine invertebrate