11-letter words containing c, e, u, m
- exclusivism — The action or policy of excluding a person or group from a place, group, or privilege.
- excrementum — an item of waste material or rubbish
- ferrocerium — an alloy of 65 percent misch metal and 35 percent iron, used in flints for cigarette lighters.
- glucosamine — an aminosugar occurring in many polysaccharides of vertebrate tissue and also as the major component of chitin.
- gum elastic — rubber1 (def 1).
- helichrysum — any of the numerous composite plants of the genus Helichrysum, having alternate leaves and solitary or clustered flower heads, including the strawflower.
- hemicyclium — a sundial in the form of a concave quarter sphere having a rodlike gnomon lying within one radius and marked on its surface with arcs that lie in the same plane as the gnomon.
- hercogamous — (of flowers) incapable of self-fertilization
- herculaneum — an ancient city in SW Italy, on the Bay of Naples: buried along with Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in a.d. 79; partially excavated.
- hermeneutic — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
- homonuclear — a homonuclear molecule is composed of atoms of the same element or isotope and all of its nuclei are alike
- house music — an up-tempo style of disco music characterized by deep bass rhythms, piano or synthesizer melodies, and soul-music singing, sometimes with elements of rap music.
- hucksterism — a retailer of small articles, especially a peddler of fruits and vegetables; hawker.
- humectation — A moistening.
- humperdinck — Engelbert [eng-uh l-bert;; English eng-guh l-burt] /ˈɛŋ əlˌbɛrt;; English ˈɛŋ gəlˌbɜrt/ (Show IPA), 1854–1921, German composer.
- hypothecium — the layer of hyphal tissue directly beneath the hymenium of an apothecium.
- illuminance — illumination (def 6).
- immunogenic — causing or capable of producing an immune response.
- impecunious — having little or no money; penniless; poor.
- implicature — potential inference that is not logical entailment.
- impuissance — Impotence, weakness.
- income fund — a mutual fund that invests primarily in stocks that are likely to continue to pay or increase dividends.
- incumbrance — encumbrance.
- inducements — Plural form of inducement.
- insectarium — a place in which a collection of living insects is kept, as in a zoo.
- intercampus — the grounds, often including the buildings, of a college, university, or school.
- intumescent — a swelling up, as with congestion.
- intumescing — Present participle of intumesce.
- itacolumite — a sandstone consisting of interlocking quartz grains and mica scales, found principally in Brazil and North Carolina, and noted for its flexibility in thin slabs.
- jejunectomy — excision of part or all of the jejunum.
- jump jockey — A jump jockey is someone who rides horses in races such as steeplechases, where the horses have to jump over obstacles.
- la camargue — a delta region in S France, between the channels of the Grand and Petit Rhône: cattle, esp bulls for the Spanish bullrings, and horses are reared
- lemon juice — citrus juice from lemons
- leucodermia — leucoderma
- lime-juicer — a British sailor.
- loose scrum — a play in which a bunch of players gather around an opponent's dropped ball and then attempt to gain possession of the ball.
- lucid dream — a dream in which the dreamer is aware that he or she is dreaming and can sometimes influence the course of the dream
- lucid emacs — Xemacs
- lumberjacks — Plural form of lumberjack.
- luminescent — the emission of light not caused by incandescence and occurring at a temperature below that of incandescent bodies.
- luminescing — Present participle of luminesce.
- lumpsuckers — Plural form of lumpsucker.
- maceranduba — the milk tree, native to Brazil
- mach number — a number indicating the ratio of the speed of an object to the speed of sound in the medium through which the object is moving. Abbreviation: M.
- machine gun — automatic firearm
- machine-gun — to shoot at with a machine gun.
- machineguns — Plural form of machinegun.
- macronuclei — Plural form of macronucleus.
- magic flute — an opera (1791) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
- main clause — a clause that can stand alone as a sentence, containing a subject and a predicate with a finite verb, as I was there in the sentence I was there when he arrived.