12-letter words containing c, u, m, e
- crater mound — huge, circular depression in central Ariz., believed to have been made by a meteorite: depth, 600 ft (183 m); diameter, 0.75 mi (1.2 km)
- craw-thumper — an ostentatiously pious person
- crematoriums — Plural form of crematorium.
- creme brulee — a cream or custard dessert covered with caramelized sugar
- crime-buster — a law officer who specializes in fighting large-scale organized crime
- crumble away — disintegrate
- cub mistress — a woman who organizes a pack of cub scouts
- cum dividend — (of shares, etc) with the right to current dividend
- cumbersomely — In a cumbersome way.
- cumbrousness — The state or quality of being cumbrous.
- cumulatively — increasing or growing by accumulation or successive additions: the cumulative effect of one rejection after another.
- cuneiformist — a person who studies or deciphers cuneiform writing.
- curanderismo — the use of folk medicine, especially as practiced by a curandero.
- curmudgeonly — If you describe someone as curmudgeonly, you do not like them because they are mean or bad-tempered.
- curtailments — Plural form of curtailment.
- curtain time — the time at which a play or other performance is scheduled to begin.
- cusip number — A CUSIP number is a number that identifies an individual security like a stock or a bond.
- custom house — a government office, esp at a port, where customs are collected and ships cleared for entry
- custom-order — to obtain by special or individual order: These wide doors have to be custom-ordered.
- customhouses — Plural form of customhouse.
- customisable — Alternative spelling of customizable.
- customizable — to modify or build according to individual or personal specifications or preference: to customize an automobile.
- customs shed — a large building in which customs officers carry out customs inspections
- cyber mosque — a website dealing with Islamic religious matters
- decommunized — Simple past tense and past participle of decommunize.
- decompounded — Simple past tense and past participle of decompound.
- decumulation — a decrease in amount or value
- demand curve — A demand curve is a graph showing the price of an item and the amount consumers want to buy.
- denouncement — to condemn or censure openly or publicly: to denounce a politician as morally corrupt.
- detumescence — the subsidence of a swelling, esp the return of a swollen organ, such as the penis, to the flaccid state
- deuteronomic — of, relating to, or resembling Deuteronomy, especially the laws contained in that book.
- diatomaceous — of, relating to, consisting of, or containing diatoms or their fossil remains
- discomedusan — a member of the Discomedusae, an order of jellyfish with flattened bodies
- discomfiture — Archaic. defeat in battle; rout.
- discomposure — the state of being discomposed; disorder; agitation; perturbation.
- disencumbers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disencumber.
- diverticulum — a blind, tubular sac or process branching off from a canal or cavity, especially an abnormal, saclike herniation of the mucosal layer through the muscular wall of the colon.
- documentable — a written or printed paper furnishing information or evidence, as a passport, deed, bill of sale, or bill of lading; a legal or official paper.
- docutainment — infotainment (def 2).
- double cream — (in France) a fresh, soft cheese with at least 60 percent fat, made from cow's milk enriched with cream.
- drum machine — a device that simulates percussion sounds in various combinations and rhythms, and can alter digitally stored drum sounds or make digital recordings of drum sounds.
- dumper truck — A dumper truck is the same as a dump truck.
- duodenectomy — a complete or incomplete removal of the duodenum
- dutch master — one of a number of renowned and influential Dutch painters
- duty chemist — a dispensing chemist's that is open to the public for a specific period when other chemists are closed
- ecumenically — general; universal.
- edvard munch — Edvard [ed-vahrd] /ˈɛd vɑrd/ (Show IPA), 1863–1944, Norwegian painter and graphic artist.
- emasculating — Present participle of emasculate.
- emasculation — The act of depriving of virility, or the state of being so deprived; castration.
- empyreumatic — relating to empyreuma