12-letter words containing u, r, a, n, i, s
- canterburies — Plural form of canterbury.
- car industry — the industry concerned with the manufacture and selling of automobiles
- card surfing — a form of cash-card fraud in which one person watches another using a cash dispenser, notes his or her personal identification number, and, after an accomplice has stolen the card, uses the card to withdraw cash
- carnivourous — Misspelling of carnivorous.
- cater-cousin — a close friend
- circularness — The state or quality of being circular.
- circulations — Plural form of circulation.
- circumstance — The circumstances of a particular situation are the conditions which affect what happens.
- claustration — the act of confining to a small space (usually a cloister)
- colourations — Plural form of colouration.
- conjurations — Plural form of conjuration.
- connaisseurs — Plural form of connaisseur.
- conquistador — The conquistadors were the sixteenth-century Spanish conquerors of Central and South America.
- conurbations — Plural form of conurbation.
- corrugations — the act or state of corrugating or of being corrugated.
- corruscating — Present participle of corruscate.
- counterstain — to apply two or more stains in sequence to (a specimen to be examined), each of which colours a different tissue
- countervails — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of countervail.
- crenulations — Plural form of crenulation.
- curanderismo — the use of folk medicine, especially as practiced by a curandero.
- curtailments — Plural form of curtailment.
- decrustation — the act of removing a crust
- desaturation — the addition of white light to a pure colour to produce a paler less saturated colour
- dinosaur pen — A traditional mainframe computer room complete with raised flooring, special power, its own ultra-heavy-duty air conditioning, and a side order of Halon fire extinguishers. See boa.
- disadventure — misfortune; bad luck
- discouraging — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
- disenamoured — to disillusion; disenchant (usually used in the passive and followed by of or with): He was disenamored of working in the city.
- disinvoltura — Self-assurance; lack of constraint.
- disturbances — Plural form of disturbance.
- encrustation — The action of encrusting or state of being encrusted.
- enumerations — Plural form of enumeration.
- epicureanism — An ancient school of philosophy founded in Athens by Epicurus. The school rejected determinism and advocated hedonism (pleasure as the highest good), but of a restrained kind: mental pleasure was regarded more highly than physical, and the ultimate pleasure was held to be freedom from anxiety and mental pain, esp. that arising from needless fear of death and of the gods.
- equilibrants — Plural form of equilibrant.
- exclusionary — restrictive or elitist
- fair housing — the sale and rental of private housing free of discriminatory practices or policies.
- firing squad — a military detachment assigned to execute a condemned person by shooting.
- flusteration — (colloquial, dated) The act of flustering, or the state of being flustered.
- formulations — Plural form of formulation.
- 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).
- frustrations — Plural form of frustration.
- fund-raising — the act or process of raising funds, as for nonprofit organizations or for a political cause.
- gainsborough — Thomas, 1727–88, English painter.
- galeniferous — Of a mineral or deposit that contains galena.
- gastrulation — the formation of a gastrula.
- geraniaceous — belonging to the Geraniaceae, the geranium family of plants.
- glandiferous — bearing nuts or acorns
- graciousness — pleasantly kind, benevolent, and courteous.
- graminaceous — Of, pertaining to, or resembling a grass.
- gran turismo — (of an automobile) certified as conforming to the specifications, as fuel capacity and engine displacement, for a class of standard automobiles (Gran Turismo) qualified to engage in various types of competitions. Abbreviation: GTO.
- granulations — Plural form of granulation.