12-letter words containing a, e, r, o, c, u
- edulcorative — edulcorant
- elocutionary — Of or pertaining to elocution or to public speaking; rhetorical.
- elucubration — the practice of elucubrating
- encrustation — The action of encrusting or state of being encrusted.
- endovascular — Within a blood vessel.
- equivocatory — Indicating, or characterized by, equivocation.
- escape route — way out: of situation
- euphorically — In a euphoric manner.
- eutrophicate — (ecology, intransitive) To become eutrophic.
- exclusionary — restrictive or elitist
- excruciation — Some excruciating pain.
- exulceration — the process of ulceration
- false colour — colour used in a computer or photographic display to help in interpreting the image, as in the use of red to show high temperatures and blue to show low temperatures in an infrared image converter
- farm produce — agricultural products regarded collectively
- 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.
- formal cause — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
- four-channel — Audio. quadraphonic.
- fourses cake — a traditional English bread made with lard, dried fruit, and spices
- 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.
- fumariaceous — belonging to the plant family Fumariaceae.
- furfuraceous — of or containing bran.
- furnace room — a room containing a furnace or an enclosed chamber for producing heat, often on the bottom floor of the building that it heats
- geraniaceous — belonging to the Geraniaceae, the geranium family of plants.
- gesticulator — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
- graciousness — pleasantly kind, benevolent, and courteous.
- graminaceous — Of, pertaining to, or resembling a grass.
- grand coulee — a dry canyon in central Washington: cut by the Columbia River in the glacial period. 52 miles (84 km) long; over 400 feet (120 meters) deep.
- granulocytes — Plural form of granulocyte.
- ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
- ground cedar — a ground pine, Lycopodium complanatum.
- gut reaction — instinctive response
- hippocentaur — Centaur.
- housecleaner — Someone employed to clean a house.
- in your face — involving confrontation; defiant; provocative.
- in-your-face — involving confrontation; defiant; provocative.
- inoperculate — having no operculum.
- interacinous — situated between the acini of a gland or lung.
- interlocular — having one or more locules.
- jaculiferous — having dartlike spines.
- jocularities — the state or quality of being jocular.
- jordan curve — simple closed curve.
- judicatories — Plural form of judicatory.
- ketoaciduria — (pathology) The presence of (excess) ketoacids in the urine.
- labour force — The labour force consists of all the people who are able to work in a country or area, or all the people who work for a particular company.
- lane closure — the closing of a lane on a motorway
- laticiferous — bearing or containing latex.
- lay a course — to sail on a planned course without tacking
- lounge chair — a chair designed for lounging, as an easy chair, chaise longue, or recliner.
- macroculture — The dominant culture in a society, its overculture.