12-letter words containing t, r, u, s, i
- life-support — of or relating to equipment or measures that sustain or artificially substitute for essential body functions, as breathing or disposal of body wastes: Without life-support equipment, the patient might die.
- light-struck — (of a film or the like) damaged by accidental exposure to light.
- liquor store — off-licence, shop selling alcohol
- litholatrous — of or relating to the worship of stones
- lithospermum — any annual or perennial herbs and small shrubs of the genus lithospermum, of the borage family, native to Europe, N America, and northern Asia, and having white, blue, or yellow flowers
- litmus paper — a strip of paper impregnated with litmus, used as a chemical indicator.
- litterateurs — Plural form of litterateur.
- little hours — the canonical hours of prime, terce, sext, and nones in the divine office
- living trust — a trust that takes effect during the lifetime of the settlor.
- louis treize — noting or pertaining to the style of architecture, furnishings, and decoration prevailing in France in the early 17th century, characterized by a gradual transition from the free invention and composition of the renaissance to the classicism of the Louis Quatorze period.
- lubrications — Plural form of lubrication.
- lucubrations — Plural form of lucubration.
- lugubriosity — mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner: lugubrious songs of lost love.
- manicure set — a set of small tools designed for trimming and caring for the nails
- manipulators — Plural form of manipulator.
- manuscriptal — (obsolete) Of or pertaining to manuscript.
- maspar unity — A translator from UNITY to MPL by Martin Huber, University of Karlsruhe, Germany. Version 1.0.
- masturbating — Present participle of masturbate.
- masturbation — the stimulation or manipulation of one's own genitals, especially to orgasm; sexual self-gratification.
- matriclinous — Having mostly maternally-inherited characteristics.
- matriculants — Plural form of matriculant.
- matriculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of matriculate.
- matroclinous — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the maternal parent (opposed to patrocliny).
- medium strip — median strip.
- menstruating — to undergo menstruation.
- menstruation — the periodic discharge of blood and mucosal tissue from the uterus, occurring approximately monthly from puberty to menopause in nonpregnant women and females of other primate species.
- mercurialist — a person born under the planet Mercury
- meretricious — alluring by a show of flashy or vulgar attractions; tawdry.
- mesogastrium — the mesentery of the embryonic stomach.
- mesokurtosis — (statistics) The property of having zero normalised kurtosis.
- metallurgist — the technique or science of working or heating metals so as to give them certain desired shapes or properties.
- micropterous — (of certain animals, esp some types of ant) having small reduced wings
- microtubules — Plural form of microtubule.
- middlebuster — Southern U.S. lister1 (def 1).
- miniaturised — Simple past tense and past participle of miniaturise.
- miniaturists — Plural form of miniaturist.
- miniaturizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of miniaturize.
- mirthfulness — joyous; cheerful; jolly; merry: a mirthful laugh.
- misadventure — an instance of bad fortune; mishap.
- misattribute — to regard as resulting from a specified cause; consider as caused by something indicated (usually followed by to): She attributed his bad temper to ill health.
- misconstrual — A misinterpretation of the meaning of something.
- misconstruct — To construct wrongly.
- misconstrued — Simple past tense and past participle of misconstrue.
- misconstrues — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misconstrue.
- misfeaturing — distorting the features
- misfortunate — Having suffered misfortune; pitiable.
- mistrustless — having no distrust or misgiving
- misventurous — characterized by a mishap
- miter square — an instrument for laying out miter joints, consisting of two straightedges joined at a 45° angle.
- mitrailleuse — a machine gun.