12-letter words containing u, s, t, i, o, n
- questionings — Plural form of questioning.
- questionless — unquestionable; doubtless: a questionless fact.
- quintillions — Plural form of quintillion.
- rambunctious — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
- reassumption — the act or process of reassuming something
- reconstitute — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
- 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.
- reductionist — 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.
- 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
- ride shotgun — a smoothbore gun for firing small shots to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.
- rustic joint — a joint between stones recessed from the faces between sunken drafts or bevels.
- rustproofing — the process of making metal rustproof.
- ryobu shinto — a fusion of Shinto and Buddhism, which flourished in Japan in the 13th century
- salutational — relating to salutation
- salutatorian — (in some U.S. schools and colleges) the student ranking second highest in the graduating class, who delivers the salutatory at commencement.
- sanguinolent — of or relating to blood.
- sansculottic — relating to sansculottes
- scitamineous — of or relating to the Scitimanae order of plants, which includes the ginger and banana plants
- scrutinously — in a scrutinous manner
- scutellation — a scutellate state or formation; a scaly covering, as on a bird's foot.
- 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.
- serpentinous — of the nature of serpentine; containing or consisting of serpentine
- set function — a function having a collection of sets as domain.
- shortcutting — to cause to be shortened by the use of a shortcut.
- 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.
- sinanthropus — the genus to which Peking man was formerly assigned.
- situationism — the theory that behavior is chiefly response to immediate situations.
- situationist — the theory that behavior is chiefly response to immediate situations.
- six counties — the historic counties of Northern Ireland, which no longer have a local government function
- sixth column — the persons residing in a country at war who are devoted to aiding the fifth column in its activities, especially by lowering morale, spreading rumors, etc.
- slopping out — In prisons where prisoners have to use buckets as toilets, slopping out is the practice in which they empty the buckets.
- slumpflation — a situation in which economic depression is combined with increasing inflation
- snow bunting — a bunting, Plectrophenax nivalis, of the northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere having white plumage.
- solifluction — creep (def 22a).
- solitudinous — the state of being or living alone; seclusion: to enjoy one's solitude.
- solution set — the roots or values satisfying a given equation or inequality, or a set of simultaneous equations or inequalities
- somnambulist — sleepwalking.
- soup kitchen — a place where food, usually soup, is served at little or no charge to the needy.
- south island — the largest island of New Zealand. 58,093 sq. mi. (150,460 sq. km).
- south-facing — facing towards the south
- 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.
- sporting gun — a gun intended for hunting
- stanniferous — containing tin; tin-bearing