12-letter words containing a, c, t, u, e
- duty of care — the legal obligation to safeguard others from harm while they are in your care, using your services, or exposed to your activities
- duvet jacket — a down-filled jacket used esp by mountaineers
- earth colour — any of various brown pigments composed chiefly of iron oxides
- educatedness — the quality of being educated
- educationese — the jargon associated with the field of education.
- educationist — a specialist in the theory and methods of education.
- edulcorating — Present participle of edulcorate.
- edulcoration — (rare) A sweetening.
- edulcorative — edulcorant
- effectuality — producing or capable of producing an intended effect; adequate.
- effectuating — Present participle of effectuate.
- effectuation — to bring about; effect.
- ejaculations — Plural form of ejaculation.
- eleutherarch — the chief of the eleutheri
- elocutionary — Of or pertaining to elocution or to public speaking; rhetorical.
- elucidations — Plural form of elucidation.
- elucubration — the practice of elucubrating
- emasculating — Present participle of emasculate.
- emasculation — The act of depriving of virility, or the state of being so deprived; castration.
- empyreumatic — relating to empyreuma
- encapsulated — Simple past tense and past participle of encapsulate.
- encapsulates — Enclose (something) in or as if in a capsule.
- encrustation — The action of encrusting or state of being encrusted.
- enculturated — Simple past tense and past participle of enculturate.
- enthusiastic — Having or showing intense and eager enjoyment, interest, or approval.
- epicuticular — Relating to the epicuticle.
- equidistance — (uncountable) Equal distance.
- equinoctials — Plural form of equinoctial.
- equivocality — The quality of being equivocal.
- equivocating — Present participle of equivocate.
- equivocation — The use of ambiguous language to conceal the truth or to avoid committing oneself; prevarication.
- equivocatory — Indicating, or characterized by, equivocation.
- escape chute — a fabric tube or chute hinged to the wall of a stairwell and used as an emergency exit, eg from a burning tall building
- escape route — way out: of situation
- ethical drug — a drug which is only available legally with a doctor's prescription or consent
- eucalyptuses — Plural form of eucalyptus.
- eulogistical — Alternative form of eulogistic.
- eutrophicate — (ecology, intransitive) To become eutrophic.
- exarticulate — (zoology) Having only one joint; said of certain insects.
- excruciating — Intensely painful.
- excruciation — Some excruciating pain.
- exsufflicate — Empty, inflated, frivolous.
- extramusical — outside the field or scope of music
- extranuclear — situated or occurring in part of a cell outside the nucleus
- exulceration — the process of ulceration
- factiousness — given to faction; dissentious: A factious group was trying to undermine the government.
- factualities — of or relating to facts; concerning facts: factual accuracy.
- fasciculated — Grouped in a fascicle; fascicled.
- featurectomy — /fee"ch*r-ek"t*-mee/ The act of removing a feature from a program. Featurectomies come in two flavours, the "righteous" and the "reluctant". Righteous featurectomies are performed because the remover believes the program would be more elegant without the feature, or there is already an equivalent and better way to achieve the same end. (Doing so is not quite the same thing as removing a misfeature.) Reluctant featurectomies are performed to satisfy some external constraint such as code size or execution speed.
- feuchtwanger — Lion [lee-awn] /ˈli ɔn/ (Show IPA), 1884–1958, German novelist and dramatist.