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12-letter words containing u, r, m, s

  • old guardism — political conservatism.
  • ombrophilous — (of plants) tolerant of wet conditions
  • ombrophobous — (of plants) not able to tolerate wet conditions
  • ombudsperson — ombudsman (def 2).
  • omnivorously — eating both animal and plant foods.
  • osco-umbrian — a group of languages, usually classified as Italic, that contains Oscan and Umbrian.
  • outmaneuvers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outmaneuver.
  • overconsumed — Simple past tense and past participle of overconsume.
  • pachydermous — any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
  • parsimonious — characterized by or showing parsimony; frugal or stingy.
  • pearl primus — Pearl, 1919–1994, U.S. dancer, born in Trinidad.
  • periostracum — the external, chitinlike covering of the shell of certain mollusks that protects the limy portion from acids.
  • periselenium — the closest point of the orbit of a spacecraft to the moon
  • perpetualism — a belief in the permanence of a given thing; the belief that a given thing (e.g. the world, a political system) will last forever
  • pityrosporum — a genus of fungi that live on the skin, esp that of the scalp and face, present in conditions such as dandruff and dermatitis
  • pleomorphous — characterized by pleomorphism
  • plumbiferous — yielding or containing lead.
  • polymorphous — having, assuming, or passing through many or various forms, stages, or the like.
  • polyomavirus — any of a genus (Polyomavirus) of papovaviruses that naturally infect wild and laboratory mice, and that cause tumors when injected into newborn mice
  • postconsumer — noting or pertaining to a product after it has been used and recycled: a chair made of postconsumer plastic.
  • praseodymium — a rare-earth, metallic, trivalent element, named from its green salts. Symbol: Pr; atomic weight: 140.91; atomic number: 59; specific gravity: 6.77 at 20°C.
  • premenstrual — of or relating to menstruation or to the menses.
  • presumptuous — full of, characterized by, or showing presumption or readiness to presume in conduct or thought, as by saying or doing something without right or permission.
  • primulaceous — belonging to the plant family Primulaceae.
  • progymnasium — (in Europe) a school that prepares pupils for secondary education (the gymnasium)
  • promuscidate — shaped like a proboscis
  • pseudamphora — a Mycenaean vase having a spherical body, a spout on the shoulder, and a handle, curving across the top, supported by a solid conical neck.
  • pseudomartyr — someone falsely or inaccurately called a martyr
  • pseudorandom — noting or pertaining to random numbers generated by a definite computational process to satisfy a statistical test.
  • quadragesima — the first Sunday in Lent.
  • quadrumanous — four-handed; having all four feet adapted for use as hands, as monkeys.
  • quarrymaster — a person in charge of a quarry
  • quasi-normal — conforming to the standard or the common type; usual; not abnormal; regular; natural.
  • querimonious — Complaining; querulous. (from 17th c.).
  • quinqueremes — Plural form of quinquereme.
  • ramapithecus — a genus of extinct Miocene ape known from fossils found in India and Pakistan and formerly thought to be a possible human ancestor.
  • rambunctious — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
  • rambus, inc. — (company)   The company which designed Rambus DRAM. Address: Mountain View, CA., USA.
  • ramentaceous — resembling or covered with ramenta.
  • re-submitted — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
  • readjustment — an act of readjusting or the state of being readjusted.
  • reassumption — the act or process of reassuming something
  • reassurement — to restore to assurance or confidence: His praise reassured me.
  • reduced mass — a quantity obtained when one particle is moving about another, larger particle that is also moving, equivalent to the mass of the smaller particle, were the larger particle not moving, and equal to the quotient of the product of the two masses divided by their sum.
  • reductionism — the theory that every complex phenomenon, especially in biology or psychology, can be explained by analyzing the simplest, most basic physical mechanisms that are in operation during the phenomenon.
  • reimbursable — to make repayment to for expense or loss incurred: The insurance company reimbursed him for his losses in the fire.
  • repositorium — a place for the storage of valuables, as in an ancient Roman temple or a church.
  • requiem mass — church service in memory of the dead
  • requirements — that which is required; a thing demanded or obligatory: One of the requirements of the job is accuracy.
  • resubmission — Law. an agreement between parties involved in a dispute, to abide by the decision of an arbitrator or arbitrators.
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