12-letter words containing su
- hypersensual — extremely or excessively sensual
- hypersurface — a mathematical object that generalizes the concept of surface from three-dimensional Euclidean space to hyperspace.
- hyposulphate — a salt derived from hyposulphuric acid
- hyposulphite — Also called hydrosulfite. a salt of hyposulfurous acid.
- immeasurable — incapable of being measured; limitless: the immeasurable vastness of the universe.
- immeasurably — incapable of being measured; limitless: the immeasurable vastness of the universe.
- immensurable — immeasurable.
- in a measure — to an extent
- in substance — that of which a thing consists; physical matter or material: form and substance.
- incapsulated — Simple past tense and past participle of incapsulate.
- incapsulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of incapsulate.
- inconsumable — not consumable; incapable of being consumed.
- insubjection — lack of subjection, or the state of being disobedient to an authority, such as a government
- insubmission — Lack of submission; disobedience.
- insubmissive — Unwilling to submit; not submissive, disobedient.
- insufferable — not to be endured; intolerable; unbearable: their insufferable insolence.
- insufferably — not to be endured; intolerable; unbearable: their insufferable insolence.
- insufficient — not sufficient; lacking in what is necessary or required: an insufficient answer.
- insufflation — to blow or breathe (something) in.
- insulin pump — an external battery-powered device that injects insulin into the body at a programmed rate to control diabetes.
- insupposable — Incapable of being supposed; inconceivable.
- insurability — capable of being or proper to be insured, as against loss or harm.
- insurgencies — Plural form of insurgency.
- insurrection — an act or instance of rising in revolt, rebellion, or resistance against civil authority or an established government.
- insusceptive — insusceptible
- intertissued — interwoven
- intussuscept — to take within, as one part of the intestine into an adjacent part; invaginate.
- invert sugar — a mixture of the dextrorotatory forms of glucose and fructose, formed naturally in fruits and produced artificially in syrups or fondants by treating cane sugar with acids.
- iron sulfate — ferrous sulfate.
- jesus christ — Jesus (def 1).
- jesus freaks — a member of any of several fundamentalist groups of chiefly young people (Jesus people) originating in the early 1970s and emphasizing intense personal devotion to and study of Jesus Christ and His teachings.
- jogging suit — an outfit consisting of sweat pants and a sweatshirt, used while exercising or as sportswear.
- jurisconsult — Roman and Civil Law. a person authorized to give legal advice.
- lake success — a town on Long Island, in SE New York: temporary United Nations headquarters 1946–51.
- land measure — any system of measurement for measuring land.
- lane closure — the closing of a lane on a motorway
- leisure home — a house for use on weekends, vacations, or the like.
- leisure suit — a man's casual suit, consisting of trousers and a matching jacket styled like a shirt, often made in pastel colors.
- leisure time — free time
- life support — equipment to sustain a patient's life
- life-support — of or relating to equipment or measures that sustain or artificially substitute for essential body functions, as breathing or disposal of body wastes: Without life-support equipment, the patient might die.
- long measure — Also called long meter. Prosody. a four-line stanza in iambic tetrameter, often used in hymns, with the second and fourth lines rhyming and sometimes the first and third lines rhyming as well.
- low-pressure — having or involving a low or below-normal pressure, as steam or water.
- mains supply — electricity, water, or gas supplied to a building through wires or pipes
- mare clausum — a body of navigable water under the sole jurisdiction of a nation.
- measure zero — the property of a set of points for which, given any small number, there exists a set of intervals such that each point of the given set is contained in at least one of the intervals and such that, essentially, the combined length of the intervals is less than the small number.
- measurements — The action of measuring something.
- microcapsule — a tiny capsule, 20–150 microns in diameter, used for slow-release application of drugs, pesticides, flavors, etc.
- microinsurer — (insurance) An insurer providing microinsurance, small low-cost policies aimed at underserved groups.
- microsurgeon — a person who performs microsurgery