12-Letter Words Containing U

NUMINOUS a {divinity=n}

Coin collectors

Nuptiality

Food value expert

One studying the value of food and its ingestion

Nutritious

""OBDURATE to become hard-hearted, also OBDURE""

Obfuscation

Objurgation

OBNUBILATE To cloud; to obscure.

Clouding stink over knight with general rejoicing losing head

For this custom, brain's abandoned

One who makes dim, daft subtractions

Wrong subtractions standing in the way of enlightenment

Resisting enlightenment, having messed up subtractions

Obscuration

In a sycophantic way ("Richard III")

In a servile way

Drunken bore's posture becomes unruly

Sober posture (anagram) - unruly

Noisy, hard to control

Hindrances

Noisy disturbances on street after outside broadcast means barriers

Obstructive

Obtuseness

Occultation

Relating to one's job or profession

Rehabilitation via practical activities

To do with work

Odiousness

Offscouring

Oleaginous

OLEORESIN A natural mixture of a terebinthinate oil and a resin.

""Feeding on a restricted range of food substances, especially a limited number of plants. Used chiefly of insects.""

Omnivorous

Any of a group of viruses that contain single-stranded RNA and produce tumors in birds and mammals.

Opaqueness

Opportunism

They make the best of what happens to awful sprouts in pot

They make the best of what happens to wild sprouts in pot

""Pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order (Orchidace\'91) of endogenous plants of which the genus Orchis is the type. They are mostly perennial herbs having the stamens and pistils united in a single column, and normally three petals and three sepals, all adherent to the ovary. The flowers are curiously shaped, often resembling insects, the odd or lower petal (called the lip) being unlike the others, and sometimes of a strange and unexpected appearance. About one hundred species occur in the United States, but several thousand in the tropics. Orchidace\'91) of endogenous plants of which the genus Orchis is the type. They are mostly perennial herbs having the stamens and pistils united in a single column, and normally three petals and three sepals, all adherent to the ovary. The flowers are curiously shaped, often resembling insects, the odd or lower petal (called the lip) being unlike the others, and sometimes of a strange and unexpected appearance. About one hundred species occur in the United States, but several thousand in the tropics.""

Orotundity

Having the axis of an ovule or seed straight from the hilum and chalaza to the orifice or the micropyle; atropous.

Given to showy display

Gaudy and garish

Showy and vulgar

OUTACHIEVE

OUTBALANCE To outweight; to exceed in weight or effect.

Outbargain

Outbreeding

Sheds what's not popular in the architects plans

Sheds what's not popular from groundbreaking developments

Outcavil

OUTCOMPETE

Outcropping

OUTDATED outdate

Outdeliver

Outdesign

Left (a competitor) far behind

Leaves behind.

Excelled in military skill

Outglitter

OUTGOING expenditure

OUTINTRIGUE

Outintrigue

In a bizarre way

Oddly - and in a foreign manner

Expense includes new food left in an odd way

Outmaneuver

Outnumber

OUTORGANIZE

Outorganize

Outperform

""The process of facilitating a terminated employee's search for a new job by provision of professional services, such as counseling, paid for by the former employer.""

Outpolitick

OUTPOPULATE

Outpopulate

Outpreach

OUTPRODUCE

OUTPROMISE

In a shockingly bad manner

Outrebound

Word with prefix out-

Outrival

OUTSIDER one who does not belong to a particular group

Outsourcing

OUTSPARKLE To exceed in sparkling.

Extending broadly

Outsprint

(Of arms) extended

Poor tutors and the like he had extended

Fashion etc, the Tudors extended

Outstretch

Outstrip

Outthrob

OUTWRESTLE

Way, way, way too prevalent

On a roll, Dutch worker produces too much

Overarousal

Overbuild

Weighed down, like singer with too many choruses (wordplay)

Overcaution

A curious vote, sadly going for the ultra-safe option (wordplay)

Overcloud

CONSUMED consume

Overconsume

Overcount

DISCOUNT to reduce the price of

DOCUMENT to support by conclusive information

EDUCATED educate

Overeducate

EQUIPPED equip

Too much publicity

Photo given too much light

Too much visibility

FATIGUED fatigue

Overfatigue

Overfocus

FOCUSSED focus

FOCUSSES focus

Overfulfill

Too bountiful

Overhunting

Spoilt

Overindulge

ISSUANCE the act of {issuing=v}

MATURITY the state of being {mature=adj}

To persuade or influence against one's inclination or judgment.

Put too many people into (a region)

Fill with too many people

Excessive pressure or urging.

PRODUCED produce

Overproduce

REGULATE to control according to rule

SANGUINE to stain with blood

To saturate to excess.

Overslaugh

Overstuff

SUPPLIED supply

Oversupply

Overtrump

UTILIZED utilize

Overutilize

""A place where foodstuffs are processed and packed; as, they came from an apple packinghouse.as, they came from an apple packinghouse.""

Members of the figwort family

Artist's tools

What had P. Rubens at his disposal (wordplay)

Pandemonium

PANSEXUAL

Fall Guys

""The set of nonphonemic properties of speech, such as speaking tempo, vocal pitch, and intonational contours, that can be used to communicate attitudes or other shades of meaning.""

Penny-pinching

Tight-fisted

Cheese-paring

(In)temperate advice, part 3

Very careful with clay, oddly

In a marked way

Smoke, essentially

Parturition

Parvovirus

Anemone with bell-shaped purple flowers

PASQUINADE A lampoon or satirical writing.

PASTEURISE

Pasteurizer

PASTEURIZE To subject to pasteurization.

Regions suitable for grazing

Peaceful

Tranquillity

Adjective (-ous)

""Having a peduncle; growing on a peduncle; as, a pedunculate flower; a pedunculate eye, as in a lobster.as, a pedunculate flower; a pedunculate eye, as in a lobster.""

Pelargonium

Excitement must follow for each, maybe

Maybe gained through hazardous activity

Maybe, old style.

""PERAMBULATE To walk through or over; especially, to travel over for the purpose of surveying or examining; to inspect by traversing; specifically, to inspect officially the boundaries of, as of a town or parish, by walking over the whole line.""

Perambulate

Carriage for one on patrol

Baby carrier (usually abbreviated)

Baby's transport

Perceptual

Percussive

""Medicine Passed, done, or effected through the skin.""

In a perfidious manner.

PERFUSION The act of perfusing.

PERILOUS dangerous

Pl. perionychia (- - ) The border of epidermal tissue surrounding a fingernail or toenail.

PERITRICH

Perjurious

Permutation

Pernicious

""PERPETUATE To make perpetual; to cause to endure, or to be continued, indefinitely; to preserve from extinction or oblivion; to eternize.""

Perhaps how vets are paid out in a settlement shows endurance

Perpetuator

Perpetuity

Persecution

Convincingly repulsive, say, after makeover

Purposeful precautions I put in place

Disquiet

""The quality or state of being pervious; as, the perviousness of glass. as, the perviousness of glass.""

Top of plant needs shade - uphill struggle for 24 21

One who collects matchbooks or matchboxes.

The excessive discharge of phosphates in the urine.

Phosphonium

PHOSPHORUS The morning star; Phosphor.

An electric current produced by illumination of a photoelectric material.

""A photoengraving; also, the process by which such a picture is produced.""

Past tense or past participle

Of or relating to a nuclear reaction induced by photons.

The product of a photochemical reaction.

PHOTOREDUCE

Photoreduce

""Feeding on plants; herbivorous; as, a phytophagous animal. as, a phytophagous animal.""

""Pl. picornaviruses Any of a group of very small viruses, including the enteroviruses and the rhinoviruses, that infect animals and consist of RNA surrounded by an icosahedral protein shell.""

Video communication device

Fish culture. See under Fish. Fish.

Pittosporum

They show the sky from atrium constructed in aircraft

""PLATITUDE The quality or state of being flat, thin, or insipid; flat commonness; triteness; staleness of ideas of language.""

Something worthy of praise.

Devoid of pleasure.

Pluckiness

Plushiness

Plutocracy

""The state of being pneumatic, or of having a cavity or cavities filled with air; as, the pneumaticity of the bones of birds. as, the pneumaticity of the bones of birds.""

""The doctrine of, or a treatise on, air and other elastic fluids. See Pneumatics, 1. Pneumatics, 1.""

""Pl. pneumococci (-k k s , -k k ) A nonmotile, gram-positive bacterium (Streptococcus pneumoniae) that is the most common cause of bacterial pneumonia, associated with meningitis and other infectious diseases.""

""A form of micrococcus found in the sputum (and elsewhere) of persons suffering with pneumonia, and thought to be the cause of this disease.""

Pneumograph

Lung problem

Podophyllum

Poliovirus