12-Letter Words Ending: ENS

• reduce in scope while retaining essential elements

• shorten lines in a drawing so as to create an illusion of depth

• inactive precursor of trypsin; a substance secreted by the pancreas and converted to active trypsin by enterokinase in the small intestine

• an inactive form of plasmin that occurs in plasma and is converted to plasmin by organic solvents

• any of a group of steroid hormones that have the effect of progesterone

• any of several evergreen perennials of the genus Pyrola

• creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil

• spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil

• pot roast marinated several days in seasoned vinegar before cooking; usually served with potato dumplings