12-letter words containing a, c, t, u, r, e
- equivocatory — Indicating, or characterized by, equivocation.
- escape route — way out: of situation
- ethical drug — a drug which is only available legally with a doctor's prescription or consent
- eutrophicate — (ecology, intransitive) To become eutrophic.
- exarticulate — (zoology) Having only one joint; said of certain insects.
- excruciating — Intensely painful.
- excruciation — Some excruciating pain.
- 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
- 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.
- fire curtain — safety curtain.
- fluidextract — a liquid preparation, containing alcohol as a solvent or as a preservative, that contains in each cubic centimeter the medicinal activity of one gram of the crude drug in powdered form.
- franc-tireur — a sharpshooter in the French army.
- fructosamine — (organic compound) A chemical compound that can be considered the result of a reaction between fructose and ammonia or an amine (with a molecule of water being released).
- fudge factor — any variable component added to an experiment, plan, or the like that can be manipulated to allow leeway for error.
- gear cluster — an assembly of gears permanently attached to a shaft
- gesticulator — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
- glass cutter — a tool for cutting glass.
- gracefullest — Superlative form of graceful.
- granulocytes — Plural form of granulocyte.
- grass cutter — a device used to cut grass, as a lawn mower.
- grass-cutter — a device used to cut grass, as a lawn mower.
- grudge match — You can call a contest between two people or groups a grudge match when they dislike each other.
- gut reaction — instinctive response
- gutta-percha — the milky juice, nearly white when pure, of various Malaysian trees of the sapodilla family, especially Palaquium gutta.
- half-century — a period of 100 years.
- heart urchin — an echinoderm of the order Spatangoida, having an elongate, somewhat heart-shaped outer covering.
- hippocentaur — Centaur.
- implicatures — Plural form of implicature.
- inaccurately — In an inaccurate manner; incorrectly; inexactly.
- inarticulate — lacking the ability to express oneself, especially in clear and effective speech: an inarticulate public speaker.
- inoperculate — having no operculum.
- inscrutables — Plural form of inscrutable.
- insectariums — Plural form of insectarium.
- interacinous — situated between the acini of a gland or lung.
- interfaculty — an ability, natural or acquired, for a particular kind of action: a faculty for making friends easily.
- interlocular — having one or more locules.
- internuclear — pertaining to or involving atomic weapons: nuclear war.
- internuncial — serving to announce or connect.
- intranuclear — existing or taking place within a nucleus.
- jocularities — the state or quality of being jocular.
- judicatories — Plural form of judicatory.
- ketoaciduria — (pathology) The presence of (excess) ketoacids in the urine.
- lace-curtain — characteristic of or aspiring to the standards and attributes of the middle class: Her latest novel traces the rise of a lace-curtain Irish family in Boston.
- lacquer tree — any of several trees yielding a resin used as lacquer, as Rhus verniciflua, of Japan.
- ladder truck — hook and ladder.
- laticiferous — bearing or containing latex.
- latus rectum — the chord perpendicular to the principal axis and passing through a focus of an ellipse, parabola, or hyperbola.