12-letter words containing e, n, c, u
- electro-funk — a type of electronic music, originating in the 1980s, characterized by the use of synthesizers with a heavy rhythm and punctuated bass, often influenced by the genres of funk and hip-hop
- electron gun — a heated cathode with an associated system of electrodes and coils for producing and focusing a beam of electrons, used esp in cathode-ray tubes
- electrotonus — the change in the state of irritability and conductivity of a nerve or muscle caused by the passage of an electric current
- elocutionary — Of or pertaining to elocution or to public speaking; rhetorical.
- elocutionist — Someone who practices or teaches elocution.
- 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.
- encountering — Present participle of encounter.
- encrustation — The action of encrusting or state of being encrusted.
- enculturated — Simple past tense and past participle of enculturate.
- encumberment — the act of being encumbered
- 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.
- enstructured — built into the structure of something
- enterococcus — A streptococcus of a group that occurs naturally in the intestine but causes inflammation and blood infection if introduced elsewhere in the body (e.g., by injury or surgery).
- enthusiastic — Having or showing intense and eager enjoyment, interest, or approval.
- entry coupon — a coupon which you have to fill in with personal details and answers to be eligible to win a prize
- 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.
- equipollence — The condition of being equipollent; equality of power, force, signification, or application.
- equivocating — Present participle of equivocate.
- equivocation — The use of ambiguous language to conceal the truth or to avoid committing oneself; prevarication.
- eunuchoidism — A syndrome in males with a lack of sex characteristics due to lack of proper male sex hormones.
- euphonically — In a euphonic manner.
- eurocentrism — Alternative capitalization of Eurocentrism.
- eurocurrency — the currency of any country held on deposit in Europe outside its home market: used as a source of short- or medium-term finance, esp in international trade, because of easy convertibility
- exclusionary — restrictive or elitist
- exclusionism — The quality of being exclusionist.
- exclusionist — Acting to shut out or bar someone from a place, group, or privilege.
- excruciating — Intensely painful.
- excruciation — Some excruciating pain.
- excursioning — Present participle of excursion.
- excursionist — A person who goes on excursions; a traveller or tourist.
- excursionize — to go on an excursion or excursions
- executioners — Plural form of executioner.
- 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