12-letter words containing c, e, m, t, r, y
- hysterectomy — excision of the uterus.
- impertinency — impertinence.
- intercompany — a number of individuals assembled or associated together; group of people.
- intermediacy — the state of being intermediate or of acting intermediately.
- laryngectomy — excision of part or all of the larynx.
- mary of teck — Mary (def 4).
- memory stick — computing: flashcard, dongle
- memory trace — engram.
- mercuriality — Mercurial behaviour.
- mercy flight — an aircraft flight to bring a seriously ill or injured person to hospital from an isolated community
- mercy stroke — coup de grâce.
- meristically — in a meristic manner
- meta-crystal — (language) A language for transformations of Crystal programs. Implemented in T.
- meteorically — of, relating to, or consisting of meteors.
- methacrylate — an ester or salt derived from methacrylic acid.
- methoxychlor — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 1 6 H 1 5 Cl 3 O 2 , used as an insecticide.
- microcentury — One CS professor used to characterise the standard length of his lectures as a microcentury - that is, about 52.6 minutes (see also attoparsec, nanoacre, and especially microfortnight).
- micropayment — A very small payment made each time a user accesses an Internet page or service.
- microsystems — Plural form of microsystem.
- mockumentary — a movie or television show depicting fictional events but presented as a documentary.
- molecularity — the number of molecules or atoms that participate in an elementary process.
- motorbicycle — a small, lightweight motorcycle.
- mycobacteria — Plural form of mycobacterium.
- mycoparasite — a parasitic fungus whose host is another fungus.
- mycoproteins — Plural form of mycoprotein.
- myrmecophyte — A plant that lives in association with a colony of ants. The degree of association varies and is assumed to be symbiotic in some cases.
- myrtle beach — a town in E South Carolina.
- nonsymmetric — Not symmetric; asymmetrical.
- nychthemeral — relating to a nychthemeron or to the changes or differences, specifically those relating to day and night, that occur within this span
- nychthemeron — a twenty-four hour span that includes a night and a day
- olfactometry — The study and measurement of smells.
- oophorectomy — the operation of removing one or both ovaries; ovariectomy.
- orchidectomy — orchiectomy.
- oscillometry — an instrument for measuring oscillations, especially those of the arterial pulse.
- pastry cream — a creamy custard, often flavoured, used as a filling for éclairs, flans, etc
- payment card — A payment card is a plastic card which you use like a credit card, but which takes the money directly from your bank account.
- polycentrism — the doctrine that a plurality of independent centers of leadership, power, or ideology may exist within a single political system, especially Communism.
- psychometric — Psychology. psychometrics.
- psychrometer — an instrument for determining atmospheric humidity by the reading of two thermometers, the bulb of one being kept moist and ventilated.
- psychrometry — the employment of the psychrometer.
- pyromagnetic — (formerly) thermomagnetic (def 1).
- rhytidectomy — face-lift.
- rockumentary — a documentary about rock music.
- sacramentary — a sacramentarian
- spectrometry — an optical device for measuring wavelengths, deviation of refracted rays, and angles between faces of a prism, especially an instrument (prism spectrometer) consisting of a slit through which light passes, a collimator, a prism that deviates the light, and a telescope through which the deviated light is viewed and examined.
- spermaphytic — able to produce seeds
- spermatocyte — a male germ cell (primary spermatocyte) that gives rise by meiosis to a pair of haploid cells (secondary spermatocytes) that give rise in turn to spermatids.
- spermophytic — able to produce seed
- stereochromy — the stereochrome process.
- streptomyces — any of several aerobic bacteria of the genus Streptomyces, certain species of which produce antibiotics.