12-letter words containing e, m, p, u
- consumptives — Plural form of consumptive.
- contemptuous — If you are contemptuous of someone or something, you do not like or respect them at all.
- counterstamp — a stamp added to a stamped paper or document as a qualifying mark.
- coup de main — an attack that achieves complete surprise
- craw-thumper — an ostentatiously pious person
- cusip number — A CUSIP number is a number that identifies an individual security like a stock or a bond.
- decompounded — Simple past tense and past participle of decompound.
- discomposure — the state of being discomposed; disorder; agitation; perturbation.
- drum printer — a line printer that uses a rotating drum with raised characters, against which the paper is pressed.
- dumper truck — A dumper truck is the same as a dump truck.
- duple rhythm — a rhythmic pattern created by a succession of disyllabic feet.
- egyptian mau — a breed of medium-sized cat with a spotted coat of medium length
- empyreumatic — relating to empyreuma
- 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.
- epithalamium — A song or poem celebrating a marriage.
- equimultiple — one of a series of amounts or numbers that each consist of another amount or number an equal number of times
- euphoniumist — Someone who plays the euphonium.
- exophthalmus — Alt form exophthalmos.
- farm produce — agricultural products regarded collectively
- former pupil — someone who used to attend a particular school or be a student of a particular teacher
- gamopetalous — having the petals united.
- gamosepalous — having the sepals united.
- garbage dump — rubbish tip, place where refuse is disposed of
- gelande jump — jump made in downhill skiing
- get the hump — If someone gets the hump, they get very annoyed about something.
- get up steam — (of a ship, etc) to work up a sufficient head of steam in a boiler to drive an engine
- gospel music — a now popularized form of impassioned rhythmic spiritual music rooted in the solo and responsive church singing of rural blacks in the American South, central to the development of rhythm and blues and of soul music.
- happy medium — a course of action or condition that is between two extremes: Our climate is a happy medium between hot and cold.
- humble plant — sensitive plant (def 1).
- hupokeimenon — (philosophy) That which underlies, or lies beneath; substratum.
- hypermutable — Of or in a state in which mutation is abnormally frequent.
- imperviously — In an impervious manner; impenetrably; impermeably.
- impetiginous — a contagious skin disease, especially of children, usually caused by streptococcal bacteria, marked by a superficial pustular eruption, particularly on the face.
- implicatures — Plural form of implicature.
- impoundments — Plural form of impoundment.
- imprest fund — a fund of petty cash.
- impudentness — Quality of being impudent.
- imputatively — In an imputative fashion or manner.
- in perpetuum — for ever
- in the dumps — a depressed state of mind (usually preceded by in the): to be in the dumps over money problems.
- income group — a group in a given population having incomes within a certain range
- incomputable — incapable of being computed; incalculable.
- jolly jumper — any light sail set above a skysail; flying kite.
- jump shooter — a player skilled at jump shots.
- jump the gun — a weapon consisting of a metal tube, with mechanical attachments, from which projectiles are shot by the force of an explosive; a piece of ordnance.
- jumping bean — the seed of any of certain Mexican plants of the genera Sebastiania and Sapium, of the spurge family: the movements of a moth larva inside the seed cause it to move about or jump.
- jumping gene — transposon.
- jumping hare — springhare.
- leontopodium — any plant of the Eurasian alpine genus Leontopodium, esp L. alpinum
- leprosariums — Plural form of leprosarium.