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12-letter words containing s, u

  • burnt sienna — a reddish-brown dye or pigment obtained by roasting raw sienna in a furnace
  • burro's tail — a succulent Mexican plant, Sedum morganianum, of the stonecrop family, bearing small, rose-colored flowers and long, hanging, nearly cylindrical stems with closely packed whitish-green leaves.
  • burseraceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Burseraceae, a tropical family of trees and shrubs having compound leaves and resin or balsam in their stems. The family includes bdellium and some balsams
  • bus topology — bus
  • bush leaguer — Also called busher. Baseball. a player in a minor league. an incompetent player, as one who behaves or plays as if he or she belonged in a minor league.
  • bush singlet — a black woollen singlet often worn by farm labourers
  • bush-leaguer — (in baseball) someone who plays in a minor league
  • bushelbasket — a rounded basket with a capacity of one bushel
  • bushfighting — fighting in the bush
  • bushwhacking — to make one's way through woods by cutting at undergrowth, branches, etc.
  • bushy-tailed — bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, fresh, alert, eager, and lively
  • business end — The business end of a tool or weapon is the end of it which does the work or causes damage rather than the end that you hold.
  • businesslike — If you describe someone as businesslike, you mean that they deal with things in an efficient way without wasting time.
  • busted flush — a poker hand with four cards of the same suit that fails to form a flush when the final card is dealt
  • butcher shop — a shop in which meat, poultry, and sometimes fish are sold.
  • butter sauce — a sauce made of melted butter, often diluted with water, sometimes thickened with flour or egg yolk, or both, and seasoned with lemon juice.
  • butterscotch — Butterscotch is a hard yellowish-brown sweet made from butter and sugar boiled together.
  • buying spree — the hurried acquisition by a company, of goods, assets, or other companies
  • buzzards bay — arm of the Atlantic, on the SE coast of Mass., at the base of Cape Cod peninsula
  • byelorussian — Byelorussian means belonging or relating to Byelorussia or to its people or culture.
  • cacophonious — cacophonous
  • cadaverously — In a cadaverous manner.
  • cadent house — any of the four houses that precede the angles: the third, sixth, ninth, and twelfth houses, which correspond, respectively, to neighborhood and relatives, work and health, philosophy and foreign travel, and secret matters and service to others.
  • calamitously — In a calamitous manner.
  • calcareously — in a calcareous manner
  • calculations — Plural form of calculation.
  • calixtus iii — (Alfonso de Borja; Alfonso Borgia) 1378–1458, Spanish ecclesiastic: pope 1455–58.
  • callistus ii — died 1124, French ecclesiastic: pope 1119–24.
  • calumniators — Plural form of calumniator.
  • calumniously — in a calumnious manner
  • calycoideous — calycoid
  • camelopardus — a faint extensive constellation in the N hemisphere close to Ursa Major and Cassiopeia
  • canorousness — The quality of being musical.
  • cantankerous — Someone who is cantankerous is always finding things to argue or complain about.
  • canterburies — Plural form of canterbury.
  • cape agulhas — a headland in South Africa, the southernmost point of the African continent
  • cape sounion — Cape, a cape in E central Greece, SE of Athens, at the tip of the Attica peninsula, in W Aegean Sea.
  • caper spurge — a spurge, Euphorbia lathyris, producing latex that is considered a possible source of crude oil and gasoline.
  • capillaceous — having numerous filaments resembling hairs or threads
  • capitularies — Plural form of capitulary.
  • capriciously — subject to, led by, or indicative of a sudden, odd notion or unpredictable change; erratic: He's such a capricious boss I never know how he'll react.
  • captiousness — The state of being captious.
  • car industry — the industry concerned with the manufacture and selling of automobiles
  • carbon brush — a small block of carbon used to convey current between the stationary and moving parts of an electric generator, motor, etc
  • carbonaceous — of, resembling, or containing carbon
  • card surfing — a form of cash-card fraud in which one person watches another using a cash dispenser, notes his or her personal identification number, and, after an accomplice has stolen the card, uses the card to withdraw cash
  • caricaturist — A caricaturist is a person who shows other people in an exaggerated way in order to be humorous or critical, especially in drawings or cartoons.
  • carnal abuse — Law. any lascivious contact with the sexual organs of a child by an adult, especially without sexual intercourse.
  • carnivourous — Misspelling of carnivorous.
  • carpophagous — feeding on fruit
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