12-letter words containing su
- microsurgery — any of various surgical procedures performed under magnification and with small specialized instruments, permitting very delicate operations, as the reconnection of severed blood vessels and nerves.
- midnight sun — the sun visible at midnight in mid-summer in arctic and antarctic regions.
- missummation — an incorrect summation
- money supply — the sum of demand or checking-account deposits and currency in circulation.
- morris jesup — Cape, a cape of N Greenland, on the Arctic Ocean, 440 miles (710 km) from the North Pole: northernmost land point in the world.
- multisulcate — having many grooves or furrows
- neurosurgeon — surgery of the brain or other nerve tissue.
- neurosurgery — surgery of the brain or other nerve tissue.
- no such luck — You can say 'No such luck' when you want to express your disappointment over something.
- non possumus — a statement that something cannot be done: The Pope would not accept a non possumus from the king.
- non-consumer — a person or thing that consumes.
- nonconsuming — not consuming a resource, product, or service
- noninsurance — the condition or state of not having insurance
- nullity suit — a law suit declaring a marriage to be legally void
- of substance — wealthy
- oil pressure — force that keeps engine lubricated
- on suspicion — as a suspect
- oral surgery — the branch of dentistry or of surgery dealing with the surgical treatment or repair of various conditions of the mouth or jaws.
- overconsumed — Simple past tense and past participle of overconsume.
- overexposure — excessive exposure, especially of photographic film or a sensitized plate to light rays.
- overissuance — the act of issuing in excessive amounts
- overpersuade — to persuade (a person) against his or her inclination or intention: By threats and taunts they had overpersuaded him to steal the car.
- overpressure — pressure in excess of normal atmospheric pressure, as that caused by an explosion's shock wave or created in an accelerating airplane.
- oversubtlety — the quality of being too subtle
- peloponnesus — a peninsula forming the S part of Greece: seat of the early Mycenaean civilization and the powerful city-states of Argos, Sparta, etc. 8356 sq. mi. (21,640 sq. km).
- penguin suit — a man's formal evening suit
- persuasively — able, fitted, or intended to persuade: a very persuasive argument.
- persulphuric — denoting a type of acid
- poison sumac — a shrub or small tree, Rhus vernix (or Toxicodendron vernix), of swampy areas of the eastern U.S., having pinnate leaves and causing severe dermatitis when touched by persons sensitive to it.
- polysulphide — any sulphide of a metal containing divalent anions in which there are chains of sulphur atoms, as in the polysulphides of sodium, Na2S2, Na2S3, Na2S4, etc
- postconsumer — noting or pertaining to a product after it has been used and recycled: a chair made of postconsumer plastic.
- postexposure — occurring after a photo or image has been taken
- postsurgical — pertaining to or involving surgery or surgeons.
- power supply — power supply unit
- pre-issuance — the act of issuing.
- preassurance — a guarantee or assurance offered beforehand
- pressure ice — a general term for ice broken and deformed by stresses generated by wind, currents, or waves.
- pressureless — the exertion of force upon a surface by an object, fluid, etc., in contact with it: the pressure of earth against a wall.
- presubscribe — to pledge, as by signing an agreement, to give or pay (a sum of money) as a contribution, gift, or investment: He subscribed $6,000 for the new church.
- 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.
- pro-suffrage — the right to vote, especially in a political election.
- proconsulate — the office or term of office of a proconsul.
- punxsutawney — a town in central Pennsylvania: Groundhog Day celebration.
- pygmy possum — any of various small Australasian marsupials, esp the burramys
- pyrosulfuric — of or derived from pyrosulfuric acid; disulfuric.
- pyrosulphate — any salt of pyrosulphuric acid
- race suicide — the extinction of a racial or ethnic population that tends to result when, through the unwillingness or forbearance of its members to have children, the birthrate falls below the death rate.
- re-submitted — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
- reassumption — the act or process of reassuming something
- reassurement — to restore to assurance or confidence: His praise reassured me.