12-letter words containing t, r, u, o
- outmanoeuvre — British. outmaneuver.
- outmigration — to leave a region, community, etc., to move or settle into a different part of one's country or home territory: People are no longer out-migrating from the South in such large numbers.
- outnumbering — Present participle of outnumber.
- outperformed — Simple past tense and past participle of outperform.
- outperformer — One who outperforms.
- outrageously — In an outrageous manner; to an outrageous degree.
- outreproduce — to reproduce more prolifically than
- outside work — work done off the premises of a business
- outsider art — art produced by untutored artists working by themselves and for themselves
- outsiderness — The state or condition of being an outsider.
- outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
- outstretched — to stretch forth; extend: to outstretch one's hand in welcome.
- outstripping — to outdo; surpass; excel.
- outthrusting — Present participle of outthrust.
- 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.
- 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.
- parent group — a large organization that owns a number of smaller separate commercial or industrial firms
- parrot tulip — a variety of the cultivated tulip Tulipa gesnerana, having variously colored, often double flowers with fringed petals.
- pass through — an act of passing.
- pass-through — a windowlike opening, as one for passing food or dishes between a kitchen and a dining area.
- passionfruit — any edible fruit of a passionflower, as the maypop.
- 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.
- patroclinous — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the paternal parent (opposed to matrocliny).
- pay court to — to court, as for favor or love
- payout ratio — the ratio between dividends paid out and earnings per share of common stock within a time period.
- 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.