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12-letter words containing c, o, r, n, u, t

  • current cost — The current cost of assets is their current value, or what it would cost to replace them at this time.
  • curtain hook — a hook used to attach a curtain to a curtain rail
  • curtain pole — a pole from which a curtain is hung in front of a window, door, etc
  • cutting room — The cutting room in a film production company is the place where the film is edited.
  • cycling tour — a holiday involving a tour of an area or region by bicycle
  • day in court — an opportunity to present one's side of a matter, as in a court of law
  • deconstructs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deconstruct.
  • decrustation — the act of removing a crust
  • deli counter — a display case in a delicatessen, or one in a supermarket that sells delicatessen
  • denunciatory — characterized by or given to denunciation.
  • deuteronomic — of, relating to, or resembling Deuteronomy, especially the laws contained in that book.
  • discongruity — incongruity.
  • door curtain — a curtain that fills a doorway
  • drop curtain — a curtain that is lowered into position from the flies.
  • dual-control — having dual controls
  • ductile iron — any of various cast irons strengthened by having the graphite content in the form of nodules rather than flakes, and containing cerium or magnesium as well as other additives.
  • dust counter — any instrument used to measure the size and number of dust particles per unit volume in the atmosphere.
  • dutch borneo — the former name of the southern and larger part of the island of Borneo: now part of Indonesia.
  • edulcorating — Present participle of edulcorate.
  • edulcoration — (rare) A sweetening.
  • electro-funk — a type of electronic music, originating in the 1980s, characterized by the use of synthesizers with a heavy rhythm and punctuated bass, often influenced by the genres of funk and hip-hop
  • electron gun — a heated cathode with an associated system of electrodes and coils for producing and focusing a beam of electrons, used esp in cathode-ray tubes
  • electrotonus — the change in the state of irritability and conductivity of a nerve or muscle caused by the passage of an electric current
  • elocutionary — Of or pertaining to elocution or to public speaking; rhetorical.
  • elucubration — the practice of elucubrating
  • encountering — Present participle of encounter.
  • encrustation — The action of encrusting or state of being encrusted.
  • enterococcus — A streptococcus of a group that occurs naturally in the intestine but causes inflammation and blood infection if introduced elsewhere in the body (e.g., by injury or surgery).
  • entry coupon — a coupon which you have to fill in with personal details and answers to be eligible to win a prize
  • eurocentrism — Alternative capitalization of Eurocentrism.
  • excruciation — Some excruciating pain.
  • excursionist — A person who goes on excursions; a traveller or tourist.
  • executioners — Plural form of executioner.
  • exulceration — the process of ulceration
  • first cousin — cousin (def 1).
  • flow country — an area of moorland and peat bogs in northern Scotland known for its wildlife, now partly afforested
  • fluorescents — Plural form of fluorescent.
  • food counter — a counter in a shop, bar, cafeteria, etc where food is sold or served
  • fortruncible — A cross between Fortran and RUNCIBLE for the IBM 650. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
  • friction rub — the sound, heard through a stethoscope, made by the rubbing together of the two inflamed layers of pericardium in patients with pericarditis or of pleura in patients with pleurisy
  • friend-court — amicus curiae.
  • 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).
  • glucoprotein — glycoprotein.
  • granulocytes — Plural form of granulocyte.
  • granulocytic — Of, or pertaining to, granulocytes.
  • ground cloth — groundsheet.
  • ground track — the path on the earth's surface below an aircraft, missile, rocket, or spacecraft.
  • gut reaction — instinctive response
  • hallucinator — One whose judgment and acts are affected by hallucinations; one who errs on account of his hallucinations.
  • 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
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