12-Letter Words Containing U

Polyanthus

""Having, or assuming, a variety of forms, characters, or styles; as, a polymorphous author. as, a polymorphous author.""

NEURITIS inflammation of a nerve

""Consisting of, or having, several or many separate petals; as, a polypetalous corolla, flower, or plant. as, a polypetalous corolla, flower, or plant.""

Botany Arranged in two or more series or rows.

Polysulfide

Your elephant (anag-) synthetic resin

POPULARISE

Popularity

Popularizer

""POPULARIZE To make popular; to make suitable or acceptable to the common people; to make generally known; as, to popularize philosophy. as, to popularize philosophy.""

POPULATION The act or process of populating; multiplication of inhabitants.

POPULOUS containing many inhabitants

""A hard, white, translucent ceramic made by firing a pure clay and then glazing it with variously colored fusible materials; china.""

Porousness

Portcullis

Portentous

Steaks in beer supplied by pubs

Traveling bags

Chap splits drinks with us - bags of them

""Pl. portmanteaus or portmanteaux (-t z, -t z ) A large leather suitcase that opens into two hinged compartments.""

Portraiture

Positronium

Superlative adjective

One who lived after the flood.

Adjective (-ive)

Noun (-ure)

Noun (-ure)

Candidate for a Ph.D., say

Person studying after obtaining a degree

Continuing student

How Wolfe's "The Hills Beyond" was published

Plural noun or verb form

Adjective (-ical)

Postulancy

Postulation

""An elementary substance, one of the constituents of didymium; so called from the green color of its salts. Symbol Ps. Atomic weight 143.6.""

ANNOUNCED announce

Preannounce

""CANCEROUS Like a cancer; having the qualities or virulence of a cancer; affected with cancer; as, a cancerous growth.as, a cancerous growth.""

Unpredictably but properly entertaining start to rowboat race at sea

The quality or state of being precious; costliness; dearness.

Preclusive

In a precocious manner.

Plural agent noun

COMPUTING compute

Of or pertaining to a state before consciousness.

DEPARTURE Division; separation; putting away.

Prefocus

""FORMULATE To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.""

""INAUGURAL Pertaining to, or performed or pronounced at, an inauguration; as, an inaugural address; the inaugural exercises. as, an inaugural address; the inaugural exercises.""

INDUCTION The act or process of inducting or bringing in; introduction; entrance; beginning; commencement.

Forms of bigotry

MEASURING measure

""MENSTRUAL Recurring once a month; monthly; gone through in a month; as, the menstrual revolution of the moon; pertaining to monthly changes; as, the menstrual equation of the sun's place. as, the menstrual revolution of the moon; pertaining to monthly changes; as, the menstrual equation of the sun's place.""

Premunition

Prenumber

""The act or right of taking possession before another; as, the preoccupancy of wild land. as, the preoccupancy of wild land.""

Preoccupy

Inflected form of OVULATORY Inflected form of OVULATE to produce ova

Stop our peers' recreation? Outrageous!

Report spouse in trouble? Ridiculous!

Ludicrous poser upset or disturbed

Prepuberty

Parking on local trail around Everest's starting point is not fully developed

PURCHASED purchase

Prepurchase

QUALIFIED qualify

Prequalify

REQUIRING require

Something that is required in advance

Student's concern.

Something required as a prior condition

SCHEDULED schedule

Preschedule

SLAUGHTER The act of killing.

PRESSURE to apply force to

PRESSURISE

Pressurizer

PRESSURIZE

STRUCTURE The act of building; the practice of erecting buildings; construction.

Presumption

Arrogant PM to pursue crazy American

Assuming too much

Impertinently bold

SUPPOSING suppose

The quality or state of being previous; priority or antecedence in time.

PRIDEFUL full of pride

Procedural

""The office jurisdiction of a proconsul, or the term of his office.""

Proctodaeum

Procuration

Acquisitions

""Enormously; wonderfully; astonishingly; as, prodigiously great. as, prodigiously great.""

""PRODUCTION The act or process or producing, bringing forth, or exhibiting to view; as, the production of commodities, of a witness. as, the production of commodities, of a witness.""

Productive

Lower work-rate perhaps as a consequence of dropping routine from activity

It's a measure of how hard people are working to tidy up Victor Rock

The quality or state of being profound; profundity; depth.

Profundity

PROLOGUIZE

Promptitude

""PROMULGATE To make known by open declaration, as laws, decrees, or tidings; to publish; as, to promulgate the secrets of a council. as, to promulgate the secrets of a council.""

""The act of promulgating; publication; open declaration; as, the promulgation of the gospel. as, the promulgation of the gospel.""

Announcers.

Pronounced

Pronucleus

Providing introductory instruction.

Support the object with promise to pay underhand as a good sign (wordplay)

Prosauropod

Capable of being prosecuted; liable to prosecution.

Prosecution

To look for gold entails outline plans

Manifestos showing promises about employment

In a affluent and successful manner

""PROSTITUTE To offer, as a woman, to a lewd use; to give up to lewdness for hire.""

The 'oldest profession'

Game Italian's behind French driver, twisting in and out

Prostitutor

""Symbol Pa A rare, extremely toxic, radioactive element chemically similar to uranium, having 13 known isotopes, the most common of which is protactinium 231 with a half-life of 32,480 years. Atomic number 91; melting point 1,230°C; specific gravity 15.37; valence 4, 5. See Table at element .""

Proteinuria

A song in celebration of a marriage.

Prothallus

In a protrusive manner.

Outward bulge - not cupbearer (anagram)

Something sticking out

Bump or lump

Past tense or past participle

Provocateur

In a prudential manner; prudently.

PRUSSIANISE

Prussianise

PRUSSIANIZE

Prussianize

English word

See false pregnancy .

See false pregnancy .

Pseudomonad

Pseudomorph

Redirection of debts - 25, about: it's in Araucaria's very nature

""Bearing a false or fictitious name; as, a pseudonymous work. as, a pseudonymous work.""

""Of or pertaining to a pseudopod, or to pseudopodia. See Illust. of Heliozoa. Illust. of Heliozoa.""

Same as Pseudopod. Pseudopod.

""Of, relating to, or being random numbers generated by a definite, nonrandom computational process.""

Like some Freudian stages

Publication

Publicness

Pugnacious

Pulchritude

Pullulation

Admitting of being pulverized; pulverable.

Coarse dark ryebread

German coarse rye bread

Coarse dark rye bread

Pumpkinseed

Punchinello

Punctuation

PUNITIVE inflicting punishment

PURBLIND partially blind

Removal of contaminants

Process of cleansing

Ritual cleansing

Purificator

Serving or tending to purify; purificative.

Puristical

Some military decorations

The uppers a girl (let alone GI) is thrilled by

Oldest awards still given to United States military members

Purposeful

PUSSYFOOTER pussyfoot

Pussyfoot

Pustulation

Process of rotting

""Of or pertaining to putrefaction; as, the putrefactive smell or process. as, the putrefactive smell or process.""

Putrescence

Having the head full of confused notions.

Quacksalver

Four-sided

""Of or for a four-channel sound system in which speakers are positioned at all four corners of the listening space, reproducing signals that are independent of each other.""

Quadrennial

Quadrennium

""QUADRICEPS The great extensor muscle of the knee, divided above into four parts which unite in a single tendon at the knee.""

Quadrillion

Variant of quadraphonic .

Complete paralysis of the body from the neck down.

One paralysed in every limb

""Having a valence of four; capable of combining with, being replaced by, or compared with, four monad atoms; tetravalent; said of certain atoms and radicals; thus, carbon and silicon are quadrivalent elements. thus, carbon and silicon are quadrivalent elements.""

Having four hands; of or pertaining to the Quadrumana.

Quaintness

QUALMISH having qualms

→ quantifiable hc_En_Fr()

QUANTITATE

QUANTITATE

Relating to measurable amounts

Involving amount or size

Measurable

""QUANTIZE to express in terms of quanta, also QUANTISE""

Isolating

Ones calling the plays

Monday morning pundits

Gridiron VIPs

Quarterdeck

Match in knockout tournament

Match between two sides in the last eight of knockout competition

Quartersaw

Stout pole once used as a weapon

Pole has lodgings by Welsh river

Long wooden pole once used as a weapon

Quaternary

Quaternity

""The fifteenth century, when applied to Italian art or literature; as, the sculpture of the quattrocento; quattrocento style.as, the sculpture of the quattrocento; quattrocento style.""

Queasiness

Open to doubt

Like some ethics

Doubtful - possibly dishonest

In a questionable manner.

Unquestioning; incurious.

Quicksilver

Of a lustrum

Happening once every five years

Recurring every five years

Period of five years

Period or cycle of five years

Central aspect (of something)

The most perfect or typical example

Most vital part

Quintillion

Quirkiness

Quislingism

Quitclaim

In a quixotic way.

QUIZZICAL Relating to quizzing: given to quizzing; of the nature of a quiz; farcical; sportive.

Racquetball