12-letter words containing c, u, r, e, a
- dutch master — one of a number of renowned and influential Dutch painters
- duty of care — the legal obligation to safeguard others from harm while they are in your care, using your services, or exposed to your activities
- earth colour — any of various brown pigments composed chiefly of iron oxides
- edulcorating — Present participle of edulcorate.
- edulcoration — (rare) A sweetening.
- edulcorative — edulcorant
- edvard munch — Edvard [ed-vahrd] /ˈɛd vɑrd/ (Show IPA), 1863–1944, Norwegian painter and graphic artist.
- eleutherarch — the chief of the eleutheri
- elocutionary — Of or pertaining to elocution or to public speaking; rhetorical.
- elucubration — the practice of elucubrating
- empyreumatic — relating to empyreuma
- 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.
- endovascular — Within a blood vessel.
- 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.
- epicuticular — Relating to the epicuticle.
- equivocatory — Indicating, or characterized by, equivocation.
- escape route — way out: of situation
- ethical drug — a drug which is only available legally with a doctor's prescription or consent
- euphorically — In a euphoric manner.
- eutrophicate — (ecology, intransitive) To become eutrophic.
- exarticulate — (zoology) Having only one joint; said of certain insects.
- exclusionary — restrictive or elitist
- excruciating — Intensely painful.
- excruciation — Some excruciating pain.
- extramusical — outside the field or scope of music
- extranuclear — situated or occurring in part of a cell outside the nucleus
- exulceration — the process of ulceration
- false cirrus — a type of thick cirrus cloud spreading from the top of a cumulonimbus cloud
- false colour — colour used in a computer or photographic display to help in interpreting the image, as in the use of red to show high temperatures and blue to show low temperatures in an infrared image converter
- 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.
- ferulic acid — a compound, C 10 H 10 O 4 , found in small amounts in lants, that occurs in two isomers, one a yellow oily liquid and the other crystalline.
- feuchtwanger — Lion [lee-awn] /ˈli ɔn/ (Show IPA), 1884–1958, German novelist and dramatist.
- fire curtain — safety curtain.
- fluidextract — a liquid preparation, containing alcohol as a solvent or as a preservative, that contains in each cubic centimeter the medicinal activity of one gram of the crude drug in powdered form.
- 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?
- four-channel — Audio. quadraphonic.
- fourses cake — a traditional English bread made with lard, dried fruit, and spices
- 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).
- fudge factor — any variable component added to an experiment, plan, or the like that can be manipulated to allow leeway for error.
- fumariaceous — belonging to the plant family Fumariaceae.
- furfuraceous — of or containing bran.
- 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
- gear cluster — an assembly of gears permanently attached to a shaft
- geraniaceous — belonging to the Geraniaceae, the geranium family of plants.