12-letter words containing u, n, i, r, t, e
- excruciation — Some excruciating pain.
- excursionist — A person who goes on excursions; a traveller or tourist.
- executioners — Plural form of executioner.
- expenditures — Plural form of expenditure.
- extinguisher — Anything that extinguishes something; but especially a fire extinguisher.
- extrauterine — Existing, formed, or occurring outside the uterus.
- exulceration — the process of ulceration
- fault-finder — a person who habitually finds fault, complains, or objects, especially in a petty way.
- fire curtain — safety curtain.
- flight nurse — a nurse in the U.S. Air Force who tends patients being transported by airplane.
- flourishment — The act or state of flourishing.
- flusteration — (colloquial, dated) The act of flustering, or the state of being flustered.
- fortruncible — A cross between Fortran and RUNCIBLE for the IBM 650. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
- foundationer — a person supported by funds from a foundation, or serving as a member of a foundation
- franc-tireur — a sharpshooter in the French army.
- free-cutting — (of a metal alloy) having good machinability: free-cutting steel.
- friend-court — amicus curiae.
- fructosamine — (organic compound) A chemical compound that can be considered the result of a reaction between fructose and ammonia or an amine (with a molecule of water being released).
- fruitfulness — producing good results; beneficial; profitable: fruitful investigations.
- frumentation — (in ancient Rome) a public donation of grain, often given to citizens during times of unease
- furnishments — Plural form of furnishment.
- glucoprotein — glycoprotein.
- glutaredoxin — (enzyme) Any of a family of small redox enzymes that use glutathione as a cofactor.
- grid current — the current that moves within the vacuum tube from the grid to the cathode.
- guaranteeing — a promise or assurance, especially one in writing, that something is of specified quality, content, benefit, etc., or that it will perform satisfactorily for a given length of time: a money-back guarantee.
- guide center — a command to a marching formation to align itself behind a guide marching at the head of the formation.
- guilt-ridden — If a person is guilt-ridden, they feel very guilty about something.
- gut reaction — instinctive response
- guttersnipes — Plural form of guttersnipe.
- gutwrenching — Alternative spelling of gut-wrenching.
- heart urchin — an echinoderm of the order Spatangoida, having an elongate, somewhat heart-shaped outer covering.
- heartburning — rankling discontent, especially from envy or jealousy; grudge.
- hermeneutics — the science of interpretation, especially of the Scriptures.
- heteroousian — a person who believes the Father and the Son to be unlike in substance or essence; an Arian (opposed to Homoousian).
- hindquarters — the posterior end of a halved carcass of beef, lamb, etc., sectioned usually between the twelfth and thirteenth ribs.
- hippocentaur — Centaur.
- house martin — a small European swallow, Delichon urbica, that builds its nest under the eaves of houses.
- housepainter — A professional painter of houses.
- housetrained — Simple past tense and past participle of housetrain.
- hucksterings — Plural form of huckstering.
- immatureness — not mature, ripe, developed, perfected, etc.
- imprest fund — a fund of petty cash.
- in a flutter — agitated, flustered
- in miniature — on a smaller scale
- in perpetuum — for ever
- in the rough — having a coarse or uneven surface, as from projections, irregularities, or breaks; not smooth: rough, red hands; a rough road.
- in the round — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
- in-and-outer — a person who is by turns in and out of a particular situation, condition, venture, investment, etc.
- in-congruent — not congruent.
- inaccurately — In an inaccurate manner; incorrectly; inexactly.