12-letter words containing c, u, n, e, a
- educationese — the jargon associated with the field of education.
- educationist — a specialist in the theory and methods of education.
- edulcorating — Present participle of edulcorate.
- edulcoration — (rare) A sweetening.
- edvard munch — Edvard [ed-vahrd] /ˈɛd vɑrd/ (Show IPA), 1863–1944, Norwegian painter and graphic artist.
- effectuating — Present participle of effectuate.
- effectuation — to bring about; effect.
- ejaculations — Plural form of ejaculation.
- elocutionary — Of or pertaining to elocution or to public speaking; rhetorical.
- elucidations — Plural form of elucidation.
- elucubration — the practice of elucubrating
- emasculating — Present participle of emasculate.
- emasculation — The act of depriving of virility, or the state of being so deprived; castration.
- encapsulated — Simple past tense and past participle of encapsulate.
- encapsulates — Enclose (something) in or as if in a capsule.
- encrustation — The action of encrusting or state of being encrusted.
- enculturated — Simple past tense and past participle of enculturate.
- encumbrancer — Alternative form of incumbrancer.
- encumbrances — Plural form of encumbrance.
- endonuclease — An enzyme that cleaves a polynucleotide chain by separating nucleotides other than the two end ones.
- endovascular — Within a blood vessel.
- enthusiastic — Having or showing intense and eager enjoyment, interest, or approval.
- 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.
- equidistance — (uncountable) Equal distance.
- equinoctials — Plural form of equinoctial.
- equivocating — Present participle of equivocate.
- equivocation — The use of ambiguous language to conceal the truth or to avoid committing oneself; prevarication.
- euphonically — In a euphonic manner.
- exclusionary — restrictive or elitist
- excruciating — Intensely painful.
- excruciation — Some excruciating pain.
- exonucleases — Plural form of exonuclease.
- extranuclear — situated or occurring in part of a cell outside the nucleus
- exulceration — the process of ulceration
- face down/up — If someone or something is face down, their face or front points downwards. If they are face up, their face or front points upwards.
- factiousness — given to faction; dissentious: A factious group was trying to undermine the government.
- fancifulness — The quality of being fanciful.
- feuchtwanger — Lion [lee-awn] /ˈli ɔn/ (Show IPA), 1884–1958, German novelist and dramatist.
- final clause — a clause expressing intention or purpose
- fire curtain — safety curtain.
- four-channel — Audio. quadraphonic.
- franc-tireur — a sharpshooter in the French army.
- french sudan — former name of Mali.
- 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).
- functionable — functional (def 3).
- 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
- gallinaceous — pertaining to or resembling the domestic fowls.
- geniculating — Present participle of geniculate.
- geniculation — the state of being geniculate.
- geraniaceous — belonging to the Geraniaceae, the geranium family of plants.