12-letter words containing u, n, s, t, e
- resoluteness — firmly resolved or determined; set in purpose or opinion: Her parents wanted her to marry, but she was focused on her education and remained resolute.
- resolutioner — a person joining in or subscribing to a resolution.
- restauration — restoration
- resupination — a resupinate condition.
- resurrection — the act of rising from the dead.
- retropulsion — an abnormal tendency to walk backwards: a symptom of Parkinson's disease
- return visit — If you make a return visit, you visit someone who has already visited you, or you go back to a place where you have already been once.
- reverse turn — a manoeuvre which makes a vehicle move backwards and to the left or right
- ride shotgun — a smoothbore gun for firing small shots to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.
- rooter skunk — hog-nosed skunk (def 1).
- run the show — to cause or allow to be seen; exhibit; display.
- rutlandshire — a former county, now part of Leicestershire, in central England.
- safe conduct — If you are given safe conduct, the authorities officially allow you to travel somewhere, guaranteeing that you will not be arrested or harmed while doing so.
- safe-conduct — a document authorizing safe passage through a region, especially in time of war.
- saint hubert — a borough in S Quebec, Canada, just E of Montreal.
- saint-brieuc — a department in NW France. 2787 sq. mi. (7220 sq. km). Capital: Saint-Brieuc.
- saint-hubert — town in S Quebec, Canada: part of metropolitan Montreal: pop. 77,000
- sainte-beuve — Charles Augustin [sharl oh-gy-stan] /ʃarl oʊ güˈstɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1804–69, French literary critic.
- salad burnet — a plant, Poterium sanguisorba, of the rose family, native to Eurasia, having rounded heads of small, greenish flowers in short spikes and edible leaves.
- sanctus bell — a bell rung during the celebration of Mass to call attention to the more solemn parts.
- 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
- saunteringly — in a sauntering manner
- 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
- security van — an armoured van used to transport money or other valuables
- see the menu — When a customer asks to see the menu, they ask you to bring them a copy of the menu.
- 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.
- sensualistic — of or pertaining to the philosophical position of sensualism
- sensualities — sensual nature: the sensuality of Keats's poetry.
- sequentially — characterized by regular sequence of parts.
- seropurulent — composed of or containing both serum and pus
- serpentarium — a place where snakes are housed, especially for exhibition.
- serpentinous — of the nature of serpentine; containing or consisting of serpentine
- set function — a function having a collection of sets as domain.
- setting rule — a metal strip used in the hand-setting of type in a composing stick to separate the line being set from the previous one
- 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).
- shut-in well — confined to one's home, a hospital, etc., as from illness.
- sight unseen — the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
- 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.
- simultaneity — existing, occurring, or operating at the same time; concurrent: simultaneous movements; simultaneous translation.
- 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