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12-letter words containing c, e, u, m

  • encumberment — the act of being encumbered
  • encumbrancer — Alternative form of incumbrancer.
  • encumbrances — Plural form of encumbrance.
  • epicureanism — An ancient school of philosophy founded in Athens by Epicurus. The school rejected determinism and advocated hedonism (pleasure as the highest good), but of a restrained kind: mental pleasure was regarded more highly than physical, and the ultimate pleasure was held to be freedom from anxiety and mental pain, esp. that arising from needless fear of death and of the gods.
  • ethylmercury — (chemistry) The organometallic cation CH3CH2Hg+; it is a toxicant that does not seem to accumulate in the environment.
  • etymologicum — an etymological dictionary
  • eunuchoidism — A syndrome in males with a lack of sex characteristics due to lack of proper male sex hormones.
  • eurocentrism — Alternative capitalization of Eurocentrism.
  • exclusionism — The quality of being exclusionist.
  • extramusical — outside the field or scope of music
  • 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.
  • flickermouse — Alternative form of flittermouse.
  • fluorimetric — Alternative form of fluorometric.
  • fluorochrome — any of a group of fluorescent dyes used to label biological material.
  • fluorometric — Of, pertaining to, or measured using fluorometry.
  • 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?
  • 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).
  • fumariaceous — belonging to the plant family Fumariaceae.
  • fundusectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of the fundus of an organ, such as the uterus or the stomach.
  • 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
  • gospel music — a now popularized form of impassioned rhythmic spiritual music rooted in the solo and responsive church singing of rural blacks in the American South, central to the development of rhythm and blues and of soul music.
  • graminaceous — Of, pertaining to, or resembling a grass.
  • grudge match — You can call a contest between two people or groups a grudge match when they dislike each other.
  • gubernaculum — a part or organ that directs the movement or course of another part.
  • helichrysums — Plural form of helichrysum.
  • hermeneutics — the science of interpretation, especially of the Scriptures.
  • herstmonceux — a village in S England, in E Sussex north of Eastbourne: 15th-century castle, site of the Royal Observatory, which was transferred from Greenwich between 1948 and 1958, until 1990
  • hibernaculum — a protective case or covering, especially for winter, as of an animal or a plant bud.
  • home country — the country a person comes from
  • homo erectus — an extinct species of the human lineage, formerly known as Pithecanthropus erectus, having upright stature and a well-evolved postcranial skeleton, but with a smallish brain, low forehead, and protruding face.
  • huffman code — Huffman coding
  • human comedy — French La Comédie Humaine. a collected edition of tales and novels in 17 volumes (1842–48) by Honoré de Balzac.
  • hunger march — a procession of protest or demonstration by the unemployed
  • immaculately — free from spot or stain; spotlessly clean: immaculate linen.
  • implicatures — Plural form of implicature.
  • income group — a group in a given population having incomes within a certain range
  • incommutable — not exchangeable.
  • incomputable — incapable of being computed; incalculable.
  • inconsumable — not consumable; incapable of being consumed.
  • incumbencies — Plural form of incumbency.
  • incumbent on — holding an indicated position, role, office, etc., currently: the incumbent officers of the club.
  • incumbrancer — (legal) One who holds incumbrance, or some legal claim, lien, or charge on an estate.
  • incumbrances — Plural form of incumbrance.
  • insectariums — Plural form of insectarium.
  • intercommune — to commune or converse together
  • intumescence — a swelling up, as with congestion.
  • latus rectum — the chord perpendicular to the principal axis and passing through a focus of an ellipse, parabola, or hyperbola.
  • league match — a match played between teams in a league (as opposed to an international game)
  • lecture room — conference hall
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