12-letter words containing u, n, s, o, p
- enteropneust — a worm-like marine invertebrate
- euphoniously — In a euphonious manner.
- euphoniumist — Someone who plays the euphonium.
- expugnations — Plural form of expugnation.
- fortran-plus — Fortran for the DAP parallel machine, implements many Fortran 90 features.
- golden syrup — treacle (def 2b).
- gymnocarpous — (of a fungus or lichen) having the apothecium open and attached to the surface of the thallus.
- hellespontus — an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars.
- hepatogenous — originating in the liver
- holopneustic — having all the spiracles open, as the tracheal systems of most insects.
- housekeeping — the maintenance of a house or domestic establishment.
- housepainter — A professional painter of houses.
- hypognathous — having the lower jaw or mandible longer than the upper.
- impetiginous — a contagious skin disease, especially of children, usually caused by streptococcal bacteria, marked by a superficial pustular eruption, particularly on the face.
- impoundments — Plural form of impoundment.
- inauspicious — not auspicious; boding ill; ill-omened; unfavorable.
- insupposable — Incapable of being supposed; inconceivable.
- interspinous — located between spines, esp between the vertebrae
- interspousal — Often, spousals. the ceremony of marriage; nuptials.
- jumpstations — Plural form of jumpstation.
- labour pains — the pains felt during the contractions of childbirth
- ligniperdous — (of insects) wood-destroying
- limnophilous — (of animals) living in lakes or freshwater marshes
- magnetopause — the boundary between the earth's magnetosphere and interplanetary space, about 40,000 miles (65,000 km) above the earth, marked by an abrupt decrease in the earth's magnetic induction.
- manipulators — Plural form of manipulator.
- meganthropus — a proposed genus of extinct, late lower Pleistocene primates based on two large lower jaws found in Java, and believed to be either Australopithecine or human.
- mispronounce — Pronounce (a word) incorrectly.
- modus ponens — the principle that whenever a conditional statement and its antecedent are given to be true its consequent may be validly inferred, as in if it's Tuesday this must be Belgium and it's Tuesday so this must be Belgium
- monadelphous — (of stamens) united into one bundle or set by their filaments.
- money supply — the sum of demand or checking-account deposits and currency in circulation.
- monopetalous — gamopetalous.
- monophyllous — consisting of one leaf, as a calyx.
- monosepalous — gamosepalous.
- monospermous — having one seed.
- montes pubis — mons pubis
- mount pisgah — the mountain slopes to the northeast of the Dead Sea, from one of which, Mount Nebo, Moses viewed Canaan
- mount scopus — a mountain in central Israel, east of Jerusalem: a N extension of the Mount of Olives; site of the Hebrew University (1925). Height: 834 m (2736 ft)
- mountaintops — Plural form of mountaintop.
- mucoproteins — Plural form of mucoprotein.
- mutton chops — side whiskers trimmed in the shape of chops, widening out from the temples
- necrophagous — That eats dead or decaying animal flesh.
- necrophilous — displaying a preference for dead tissue, esp of certain bacteria and insects
- necrophorous — denoting animals, such as certain beetles, that carry away the bodies of dead animals
- neuroleptics — Plural form of neuroleptic.
- neuropathies — Plural form of neuropathy.
- neuropathist — a specialist in treating diseases of the nervous system; a neurologist
- neuroplastic — Of or pertaining to neuroplasticity.
- neuropterist — an entomologist specializing in neuropteran insects
- neuropterous — belonging or pertaining to the Neuroptera, an order of insects characterized by four membranous wings having netlike venation, comprising the ant lions, lacewings, dobsonflies, alderflies, fishflies, snakeflies, mantispids, and spongillaflies.
- neurotropism — the quality of being neurotropic.