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12-letter words containing e, n, c, a, m

  • antechambers — Plural form of antechamber.
  • anthelmintic — killing or ejecting intestinal worms
  • anti-semitic — Someone or something that is anti-Semitic is hostile to or prejudiced against Jewish people.
  • antiacademic — opposed to education
  • anticlimaxes — Plural form of anticlimax.
  • anticonsumer — opposed to consumerism
  • antieconomic — against economic growth or wellbeing
  • antileukemic — acting against leukemia
  • antimagnetic — of or constructed of a material that does not acquire permanent magnetism when exposed to a magnetic field
  • antimnemonic — difficult to remember (often deliberately so)
  • apicomplexan — Describing protists of the phylum Apicomplexa.
  • appendectomy — the surgical removal of the vermiform appendix
  • approachment — (archaic) approach.
  • archiphoneme — an abstract linguistic unit representing two or more phonemes when the distinction between these has been neutralized: conventionally shown by a capital letter within slashes, as /T/ for /t/ and /d/ in German Rat and Rad
  • arming chest — a chest for holding armor and weapons.
  • backwoodsmen — Plural form of backwoodsman.
  • balance beam — a long, narrow, horizontal wooden beam raised about 4 feet (1.2 m) above the floor, on which women gymnasts perform balancing routines consisting of jumps, tumbles, turns, running steps, etc.
  • beachcombing — The action of a beachcomber.
  • beam balance — a piece of apparatus used for artistic gymnastics
  • beech marten — stone marten.
  • bench-warmer — a substitute who rarely gets to play in a game.
  • benchmarking — In business, benchmarking is a process in which a company compares its products and methods with those of the most successful companies in its field, in order to try to improve its own performance.
  • biomagnetics — the study of magnetic fields as a form of therapy
  • biomechanics — the study of the mechanics of the movement of living organisms
  • biometrician — a person who is knowledgeable about biometry
  • bromoacetone — a colorless and highly toxic liquid, CH 2 BrCOCH 3 , used as a lachrymatory compound in tear gas and chemical warfare gas.
  • bumping race — (esp at Oxford and Cambridge) a race in which rowing eights start an equal distance one behind the other and each tries to bump the boat in front
  • cabinetmaker — A cabinetmaker is a person who makes high-quality wooden furniture.
  • cackermander — a friend
  • cacodaemonic — Daemonic.
  • calceamentum — (in ancient Rome) a sandal, boot, shoe, or other type of footwear
  • call time on — If you call time on something, you end it.
  • call-by-name — (reduction)   (CBN) (Normal order reduction, leftmost, outermost reduction). An argument passing convention (first provided by ALGOL 60?) where argument expressions are passed unevaluated. This is usually implemented by passing a pointer to a thunk - some code which will return the value of the argument and an environment giving the values of its free variables. This evaluation strategy is guaranteed to reach a normal form if one exists. When used to implement functional programming languages, call-by-name is usually combined with graph reduction to avoid repeated evaluation of the same expression. This is then known as call-by-need. The opposite of call-by-name is call-by-value where arguments are evaluated before they are passed to a function. This is more efficient but is less likely to terminate in the presence of infinite data structures and recursive functions. Arguments to macros are usually passed using call-by-name.
  • calycanthemy — the abnormal development of the calyx of a flower into a structure resembling a corolla
  • camera phone — A camera phone is a mobile phone that can also take photographs.
  • cameraperson — a camera operator
  • camiknickers — women's knickers attached to a camisole top
  • camp lejeune — a U.S. Marine Corps base in SE North Carolina SE of Jacksonville on Onslow Bay.
  • camp meeting — a religious meeting held in a large tent or outdoors, often lasting several days
  • camping site — A camping site is the same as a campsite.
  • campo grande — a city in SW Brazil, capital of Mato Grosso do Sul state on the São Paulo–Corumbá railway: market centre. Pop: 746 000 (2005 est)
  • campshedding — to line (the bank of a river) with campshot.
  • canoe slalom — a competitive event in which a canoeist maneuvers through a slalom course, usually in white water.
  • cape comorin — a headland at the southernmost point of India, in Tamil Nadu state
  • cape jasmine — a widely cultivated gardenia shrub, Gardenia jasminoides
  • cape matapan — a cape in S Greece, at the S central tip of the Peloponnese: the southern point of the mainland of Greece
  • caramelizing — Present participle of caramelize.
  • career woman — A career woman is a woman with a career who is interested in working and progressing in her job, rather than staying at home looking after the house and children.
  • carpetmonger — a person who frequently visits women's boudoirs
  • cash economy — an economic system, or part of one, in which financial transactions are carried out in cash rather than via direct debit, standing order, bank transfer, or credit card
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