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12-letter words containing c, u, r, s, e

  • executioners — Plural form of executioner.
  • executorship — The office or position of an executor.
  • extramusical — outside the field or scope of music
  • 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
  • field circus — A derogatory pun on "field service". The field service organisation of any hardware manufacturer, but especially DEC. There is an entire genre of jokes about DEC field circus engineers: Q: How can you recognise a DEC field circus engineer with a flat tire? A: He's changing one tire at a time to see which one is flat. Q: How can you recognise a DEC field circus engineer who is out of gas? A: He's changing one tire at a time to see which one is flat. See Easter egging for additional insight on these jokes. There is also the "Field Circus Cheer" (from the plan file for DEC on MIT-AI): Maynard! Maynard! Don't mess with us! We're mean and we're tough! If you get us confused We'll screw up your stuff. (DEC's service HQ is located in Maynard, Massachusetts).
  • fish culture — the artificial propagation and breeding of fish.
  • flesh colour — of a yellowish-pink to yellowish-grey colour roughly that of the skin of a white person
  • flickermouse — Alternative form of flittermouse.
  • fluoresceine — Alternative spelling of fluorescein.
  • fluorescence — the emission of radiation, especially of visible light, by a substance during exposure to external radiation, as light or x-rays. Compare phosphorescence (def 1).
  • fluorescents — Plural form of fluorescent.
  • fluoroscoped — Simple past tense and past participle of fluoroscope.
  • fluoroscopes — Plural form of fluoroscope.
  • focus puller — the member of a camera crew who adjusts the focus of the lens as the camera is tracked in or out
  • forcefulness — full of force; powerful; vigorous; effective: a forceful plea for peace.
  • foreclosures — Plural form of foreclosure.
  • 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-corners — a point in the SW U.S., at the intersection of 37° N latitude and 109° W longitude, where the boundaries of four states—Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico—meet: the only such point in the U.S.
  • fourses cake — a traditional English bread made with lard, dried fruit, and spices
  • french sudan — former name of Mali.
  • fructiferous — fruit-bearing; producing fruit.
  • 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).
  • full-service — offering or providing a wide range of services related to the basic line of business, as when a filling station changes tires or makes car repairs in addition to selling gasoline.
  • fumariaceous — belonging to the plant family Fumariaceae.
  • furfuraceous — of or containing bran.
  • future shock — physical and psychological disturbance caused by a person's inability to cope with very rapid social and technological change.
  • gear cluster — an assembly of gears permanently attached to a shaft
  • geraniaceous — belonging to the Geraniaceae, the geranium family of plants.
  • gesticulator — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
  • glass cutter — a tool for cutting glass.
  • gracefullest — Superlative form of graceful.
  • gracefulness — The state of being graceful.
  • graciousness — pleasantly kind, benevolent, and courteous.
  • graminaceous — Of, pertaining to, or resembling a grass.
  • granulocytes — Plural form of granulocyte.
  • grass cutter — a device used to cut grass, as a lawn mower.
  • grass-cutter — a device used to cut grass, as a lawn mower.
  • groupuscules — Plural form of groupuscule.
  • hard-surface — to make the surface of (something) hard or firm, as by compacting or paving it: to hard-surface a parking area.
  • 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
  • heteroecious — the development of different stages of a parasitic species on different host plants.
  • 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.
  • house church — a group of Christians meeting for worship in a private house
  • house doctor — a resident physician in a hospital, hotel, or other public institution.
  • house prices — the sums in money for which houses may be bought or sold
  • housecleaner — Someone employed to clean a house.
  • housewrecker — wrecker (def 4).
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