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12-letter words containing u, n, o, t, e

  • safe-conduct — a document authorizing safe passage through a region, especially in time of war.
  • sanguinolent — of or relating to blood.
  • sans-culotte — (in the French Revolution) a revolutionary of the poorer class: originally a term of contempt applied by the aristocrats but later adopted as a popular name by the revolutionaries.
  • santalaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Santalaceae, a family of semiparasitic plants of Australia and Malaysia including sandalwood and quandong
  • scitamineous — of or relating to the Scitimanae order of plants, which includes the ginger and banana plants
  • scutellation — a scutellate state or formation; a scaly covering, as on a bird's foot.
  • sea lungwort — a plant, Mertensia maritima, of the borage family, growing on northern seacoasts and having leaves with an oysterlike flavor.
  • seclusionist — a person who prefers to be alone or secluded
  • self-tuition — the charge or fee for instruction, as at a private school or a college or university: The college will raise its tuition again next year.
  • semiautonomy — the quality or state of being semiautonomous.
  • send out for — If you send out for food, for example pizzas or sandwiches, you phone and ask for it to be delivered to you.
  • seropurulent — composed of or containing both serum and pus
  • serpentinous — of the nature of serpentine; containing or consisting of serpentine
  • set function — a function having a collection of sets as domain.
  • seventy-four — a cardinal number, 70 plus 4.
  • sharp tongue — If you say that someone has a sharp tongue, you are critical of the fact that they say things which are unkind though often clever.
  • shawl tongue — kiltie (def 3).
  • silhouetting — a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object, as a cutout or configurational drawing, uniformly filled in with black, especially a black-paper, miniature cutout of the outlines of a person's face in profile.
  • simultaneous — existing, occurring, or operating at the same time; concurrent: simultaneous movements; simultaneous translation.
  • six counties — the historic counties of Northern Ireland, which no longer have a local government function
  • slothfulness — sluggardly; indolent; lazy.
  • slow neutron — a neutron with low kinetic energy, especially one slowed by the moderator in a nuclear reactor.
  • sneak out of — leave secretly
  • snout beetle — weevil (def 1).
  • solution set — the roots or values satisfying a given equation or inequality, or a set of simultaneous equations or inequalities
  • somnambulate — to walk during sleep; sleepwalk.
  • sound effect — any sound, other than music or speech, artificially reproduced to create an effect in a dramatic presentation, as the sound of a storm or a creaking door.
  • sound system — equipment for playing music
  • soup kitchen — a place where food, usually soup, is served at little or no charge to the needy.
  • south korean — a country in E Asia: formed 1948 after the division of the former country of Korea at 38° N. 36,600 sq. mi. (94,795 sq. km). Capital: Seoul. Compare Korea.
  • south orange — a city in NE New Jersey.
  • southeastern — from the south east
  • southernmost — farthest south.
  • southernness — the state of being southern
  • southernwood — a woody-stemmed wormwood, Artemisia abrotanum, of southern Europe, having aromatic, finely dissected leaves.
  • southwestern — the point or direction midway between south and west. Abbreviation: SW.
  • soviet union — the legislature of the former Soviet Union and its successor states, consisting of an upper house (Soviet of the Union or Council of the Union) whose delegates are elected on the basis of population, and a lower house (Soviet of Nationalities or Council of Nationalities) whose delegates are elected to represent the various nationalities.
  • stanniferous — containing tin; tin-bearing
  • stauropegion — (in an autocephalous church) a monastery subject directly to the primate.
  • stegosaurian — having the characteristics of a stegosaur
  • stenophagous — (of an animal) feeding on a limited variety of foods (opposed to euryphagous).
  • stereo sound — reproduction of sound using two or more separate microphones to feed two or more loudspeakers through separate channels in order to give a spatial effect to the sound
  • sternutation — the act of sneezing.
  • sternutatory — Also, sternutative. causing or tending to cause sneezing.
  • stirrup bone — the stapes, one of the three bones of the middle ear
  • stone bruise — a bruise on the sole of the foot, caused by walking on or striking against a small stone or other hard object.
  • stone curlew — thick-knee.
  • stone-ground — (of wheat or other grain) ground between millstones, especially those made of burstone, so as to retain the whole of the grain and preserve nutritional content.
  • storage unit — rented space to store items
  • stormfulness — the quality or state of being stormful
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