12-letter words containing t, r, u, e, o
- outstretched — to stretch forth; extend: to outstretch one's hand in welcome.
- over-fraught — Archaic. filled or laden (with): ships fraught with precious wares.
- over-stuffed — stuffed or filled to excess.
- over-trouble — to disturb the mental calm and contentment of; worry; distress; agitate.
- overabundant — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
- overcautious — excessively or unnecessarily cautious: Sometimes it doesn't pay to be overcautious in business.
- overdiscount — to discount excessively
- overdocument — to document excessively
- overeducated — Having been educated to a higher academic level than is necessary.
- overfatigued — excessively fatigued
- overmaturity — (of a tree or forest) the state of having ceased to grow or have commercial value
- overmultiply — to increase too much or too often
- overpopulate — to fill with an excessive number of people, straining available resources and facilities: Expanding industry has overpopulated the western suburbs.
- overregulate — to apply rules and regulations excessively to (something)
- oversaturate — to cause (a substance) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance, through solution, chemical combination, or the like.
- overscutched — overworked; worn out
- oversubtlety — the quality of being too subtle
- overutilized — to put to use; turn to profitable account: to utilize a stream to power a mill.
- oyster sauce — thick oyster-flavoured Asian relish
- package tour — a planned tour in which one fee is charged for all expenses: offering package tours of the chateau country.
- parent group — a large organization that owns a number of smaller separate commercial or industrial firms
- pasture rose — a bristly-stemmed rose, Rosa carolina, of the eastern U.S., having slender, straight thorns and large, solitary, rose-pink flowers.
- patent flour — a fine grade of flour, consisting chiefly of the inner part of the endosperm.
- pearl button — a button (as for fastening a shirt, blouse, etc) made of pearl or mother-of-pearl
- pectoriloquy — vocalization through the chest wall, indicating a cavity or consolidation of the lung
- pen computer — a computer, as a personal digital assistant, having pattern-recognition software enabling it to read handwritten text or drawings input on the screen by means of a stylus.
- pentyl group — any of the univalent, isomeric groups having the formula C 5 H 1 1 –.
- perambulator — baby carriage.
- 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
- periodontium — the bone, connective tissue, and gum surrounding and supporting a tooth.
- periostracum — the external, chitinlike covering of the shell of certain mollusks that protects the limy portion from acids.
- peritrichous — (of bacteria) having a uniform distribution of flagella over the body surface.
- perpetuation — to make perpetual.
- perquisition — an intensive and meticulous examination, pursuit, or hunt for something
- pertinacious — holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute.
- perturbation — the act of perturbing.
- petaliferous — bearing or having petals.
- peterborough — a city in Cambridgeshire, in central England.
- 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.
- petrobutanol — butyl alcohol.
- petrol gauge — a gauge that indicates the amount of petrol left in the tank of a vehicle
- phosphureted — combined with phosphorus, especially in its lowest valence state.
- photocurrent — an electric current produced by a photoelectric effect.
- photogravure — any of various processes, based on photography, by which an intaglio engraving is formed on a metal plate, from which ink reproductions are made.
- photoneutron — a neutron emitted from a nucleus during photodisintegration.
- photonuclear — of, relating to, or caused by the collision of high-energy photons with the nucleus of an atom.
- picture book — a book consisting mainly or entirely of pictures, especially one for children who have not yet learned to read.
- picture mold — a molding near a ceiling from which pictures can be suspended.
- picture show — motion picture.