12-letter words containing t, a, u, n, s
- instauration — renewal; restoration; renovation; repair.
- instrumental — serving or acting as an instrument or means; useful; helpful.
- insufflation — to blow or breathe (something) in.
- insurability — capable of being or proper to be insured, as against loss or harm.
- interacinous — situated between the acini of a gland or lung.
- interspousal — Often, spousals. the ceremony of marriage; nuptials.
- intraosseous — (medicine) within a bone.
- intraveneous — Misspelling of intravenous.
- invert sugar — a mixture of the dextrorotatory forms of glucose and fructose, formed naturally in fruits and produced artificially in syrups or fondants by treating cane sugar with acids.
- iron sulfate — ferrous sulfate.
- isosthenuria — the inability of the kidneys to dilute or concentrate urine
- james hutton — James, 1726–97, Scottish geologist: formulated uniformitarianism.
- journalistic — of, relating to, or characteristic of journalists or journalism.
- jumpstarting — Present participle of jumpstart.
- jumpstations — Plural form of jumpstation.
- jus naturale — the rules and principles of law derived from the customs and legislation of Rome, as opposed to those derived from the customs of all nations (jus gentium) or from fundamental ideas of right and wrong implicit in the human mind (jus naturale)
- just in case — if it should happen that
- justinian ii — 669–711 ad, Byzantine emperor (685–95, 705–11). Banished (695) after a revolt against his oppressive rule, he regained the throne with the help of the Bulgars. He was killed in a second revolt
- justinianian — of or relating to Justinian I or the Byzantine dynasty (a.d. 518–610) named after him.
- juventa fons — an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars, appearing as a dark region when viewed through a telescope.
- keratogenous — producing horn or a horny substance.
- lactalbumins — Plural form of lactalbumin.
- langoustines — Plural form of langoustine.
- languishment — the act or state of languishing.
- laser tuning — a technique for adjusting a laser's output frequency to within a specific range, especially in semiconductors.
- last but one — next to last
- last honours — observances of respect at a funeral
- latifundista — the owner of a latifundio in Latin America or Spain.
- latin square — a square array of numbers, letters, etc., in which each item appears exactly once in each row and column: used in statistical analysis.
- latitudinous — having latitude, scope, range, breadth, etc., especially of ideas, interests, interpretations, or the like: a Renaissance man of latitudinous outlook.
- launderettes — Plural form of launderette.
- laundry list — a lengthy, especially random list of items: a laundry list of hoped-for presents; a laundry list of someone's crimes.
- lenticularis — (meteorology) a cloud species which consists of rounded lens shaped of cloud, often forming near mountains. Associated with cirrocumulus, and altocumulus, and sometimes stratocumulus genera.
- lilliputians — Plural form of lilliputian.
- linguistical — (not in technical use) linguistic.
- liquidations — Plural form of liquidation.
- loathfulness — (rare) The condition of being loathful; reluctance.
- locus standi — the right of a party to appear and be heard before a court
- lubrications — Plural form of lubrication.
- lucubrations — Plural form of lucubration.
- magnetopause — the boundary between the earth's magnetosphere and interplanetary space, about 40,000 miles (65,000 km) above the earth, marked by an abrupt decrease in the earth's magnetic induction.
- magnus hitch — a knot similar to a clove hitch but taking one more turn around the object to which the line is being bent; rolling hitch.
- malfunctions — Plural form of malfunction.
- manicure set — a set of small tools designed for trimming and caring for the nails
- manipulators — Plural form of manipulator.
- manslaughter — Law. the unlawful killing of a human being without malice aforethought.
- mantoux test — a test for tuberculosis in which a hypersensitive reaction to an intracutaneous injection of tuberculin indicates a previous or current infection.
- manufactures — Plural form of manufacture.
- manuscriptal — (obsolete) Of or pertaining to manuscript.
- mao tse-tung — 1893–1976, Chinese Communist leader: chairman of the People's Republic of China 1949–59; chairman of the Chinese Communist Party 1943–76.