12-letter words containing u, n, a, l
- supernatural — of, relating to, or being above or beyond what is natural; unexplainable by natural law or phenomena; abnormal.
- superordinal — relating to the superorder
- supersensual — beyond the range of the senses.
- supplemental — supplementary.
- supplication — an act or instance of supplicating; humble prayer, entreaty, or petition.
- supply chain — process of manufacture and sale
- supraliminal — being above the threshold of perception of a stimulus.
- supranatural — beyond what is natural; supernatural.
- surmountable — to mount upon; get on the top of; mount upon and cross over: to surmount a hill.
- surpassingly — of a large amount or high degree; exceeding, excelling, or extraordinary: structures of surpassing magnificence.
- surveillance — a watch kept over a person, group, etc., especially over a suspect, prisoner, or the like: The suspects were under police surveillance.
- suspensorial — relating to a suspensorium
- svo language — a type of language that has basic subject-verb-object word order, as English, Chinese, or Spanish.
- swine plague — hemorrhagic septicemia of hogs, caused by the bacterium Pasteurella suiseptica, characterized by an accompanying infection of pneumonia.
- syndactylous — having fingers, or toes, united
- table runner — fabric strip used to decorate a table
- take counsel — receive advice
- talent scout — a person whose business it is to recognize and recruit persons of marked aptitude for a certain field or occupation, especially in entertainment or sports.
- tautavel man — Arago man.
- telanthropus — a genus of fossil hominids, known from two fragmentary lower jaws found in the region of Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, South Africa.
- teleosaurian — of or relating to the teleosaur
- telharmonium — a musical keyboard instrument operating by alternating currents of electricity which, on impulse from the keyboard, produce music at a distant point via telephone lines.
- tenuirostral — pertaining to a group of birds Tenuirostres which have slender bills
- teutonically — of or relating to the ancient Teutons.
- thankfulness — feeling or expressing gratitude; appreciative.
- the silurian — the Silurian period or rock system
- thermal unit — a unit of heat energy or of the equivalent of heat energy in work.
- thousandfold — having a thousand elements or parts.
- thunderflash — a pyrotechnic device which is noisy, but not dangerous, and which is used in military exercises
- thymus gland — a ductless, butterfly-shaped gland lying at the base of the neck, formed mostly of lymphatic tissue and aiding in the production of T cells of the immune system: after puberty, the lymphatic tissue gradually degenerates.
- to pull rank — If you say that someone in authority pulls rank, you mean that they unfairly force other people to do what they want because of their higher rank or position.
- tongue-blade — a broad, thin piece of wood used by doctors to hold down the patient's tongue during an examination of the mouth and throat.
- tranquilizer — a person or thing that tranquilizes.
- tranquillity — quality or state of being tranquil; calmness; peacefulness; quiet; serenity.
- tranquillize — To tranquillize a person or an animal means to make them become calm, sleepy, or unconscious by means of a drug.
- trans-sexual — a person having a strong desire to assume the physical characteristics and gender role of the opposite sex.
- transannular — of or relating to tautomerism in cyclic compounds that is characterized by the migration of an atom or group from one position in the ring to another.
- translucence — permitting light to pass through but diffusing it so that persons, objects, etc., on the opposite side are not clearly visible: Frosted window glass is translucent but not transparent.
- translucency — permitting light to pass through but diffusing it so that persons, objects, etc., on the opposite side are not clearly visible: Frosted window glass is translucent but not transparent.
- translucidus — (of a cloud) sufficiently transparent as not to obscure the sun, moon, or higher clouds.
- translumenal — (of a surgical procedure) performed within a blood vessel, duct, or cavity
- transnatural — beyond nature, spiritual
- transvaluate — to change the value of
- triumphantly — having achieved victory or success; victorious; successful.
- trucial oman — a former name of United Arab Emirates.
- true anomaly — the anomaly of a planet; its angular distance from perihelion or aphelion.
- truk islands — a group of islands in the W Pacific, in the E Caroline Islands: administratively part of the US Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands from 1947; became self-governing in 1979 as part of the Federated States of Micronesia; consists of 11 chief islands; a major Japanese naval base during World War II. Pop: 53 381 (2006). Area: 130 sq km (50 sq miles)
- tumultuation — a tumultuous state or the act of creating a tumult
- turbellarian — belonging to the Turbellaria, a class of platyhelminths or flatworms, mostly aquatic and having cilia on the body surface.
- ultradistant — extremely distant