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12-letter words containing e, n, c, u

  • countrywomen — Plural form of countrywoman.
  • county agent — a government employee who gives advice on agriculture in a rural area
  • county clerk — a senior local government official
  • coup de main — an attack that achieves complete surprise
  • court tennis — a variety of tennis played indoors on a specially constructed court having high cement walls off which the ball may be played, points being made chiefly by stroking the ball into any of three openings in the walls of the court. Compare penthouse (def 7), tambour (def 7), winning opening.
  • cover ground — to move or traverse a certain distance
  • covetousness — inordinately or wrongly desirous of wealth or possessions; greedy.
  • crassamentum — a blood clot
  • crassulacean — as in crassulacean acid metabolism, a method of photosynthesis
  • crater mound — huge, circular depression in central Ariz., believed to have been made by a meteorite: depth, 600 ft (183 m); diameter, 0.75 mi (1.2 km)
  • credit union — A credit union is a financial institution that offers its members low-interest loans.
  • crenulations — Plural form of crenulation.
  • croquet lawn — a lawn where croquet is played
  • crosscurrent — a current in a river or sea flowing across another current
  • crown cutter — a hollow, thin-walled cylinder having teeth formed radially on the end and used for cutting round holes out of thin, flat stock.
  • culpableness — The state or quality of being culpable.
  • cum dividend — (of shares, etc) with the right to current dividend
  • cumbrousness — The state or quality of being cumbrous.
  • cunctipotent — (obsolete) almighty; all-powerful.
  • cuneiformist — a person who studies or deciphers cuneiform writing.
  • curanderismo — the use of folk medicine, especially as practiced by a curandero.
  • curelessness — The state or quality of being cureless.
  • curmudgeonly — If you describe someone as curmudgeonly, you do not like them because they are mean or bad-tempered.
  • currency bar — a long narrow iron bar, often sword-like or spear-like in shape, dating from the pre-Roman and Roman period in Britain; the purpose of currency bars is not certain, and while they may have been used in trade, they may have had a ritual significance
  • current cost — The current cost of assets is their current value, or what it would cost to replace them at this time.
  • curtailments — Plural form of curtailment.
  • curtain line — the last line of a scene, act, etc., as in a play; tag line.
  • curtain pole — a pole from which a curtain is hung in front of a window, door, etc
  • curtain time — the time at which a play or other performance is scheduled to begin.
  • cusip number — A CUSIP number is a number that identifies an individual security like a stock or a bond.
  • cutting edge — If you are at the cutting edge of a particular field of activity, you are involved in its most important or most exciting developments.
  • cybersurfing — The practice of using and browsing the Internet, especially as a habitual pastime.
  • cycle crunch — (jargon)   A situation wherein the number of people trying to use a computer simultaneously has reached the point where no one can get enough cycles because they are spread too thin and the system has probably begun to thrash. This scenario is an inevitable result of Parkinson's Law applied to time-sharing. Usually the only solution is to buy more computer. Happily, this has rapidly become easier since the mid-1980s, so much so that the very term "cycle crunch" now has a faintly archaic flavour; most hackers now use workstations or personal computers as opposed to traditional time-sharing systems.
  • dance studio — A dance studio is a place where people pay to learn how to dance.
  • dark current — the residual current produced by a photoelectric device when not illuminated
  • dead account — an account that is no longer being used and on which no transactions have taken place for a considerable length of time
  • declustering — Any technique that counteracts clustering (in any sense).
  • decluttering — Present participle of declutter.
  • decommunized — Simple past tense and past participle of decommunize.
  • decompounded — Simple past tense and past participle of decompound.
  • deconstructs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deconstruct.
  • decorousness — characterized by dignified propriety in conduct, manners, appearance, character, etc.
  • decrustation — the act of removing a crust
  • decumulation — a decrease in amount or value
  • dedekind cut — a method of according the same status to irrational and rational numbers, devised by Julius Wilhelm Dedekind (1831–1916)
  • deflocculant — a chemical added to slip to increase fluidity.
  • deli counter — a display case in a delicatessen, or one in a supermarket that sells delicatessen
  • deliquescent — the act or process of deliquescing.
  • deliquescing — Present participle of deliquesce.
  • demand curve — A demand curve is a graph showing the price of an item and the amount consumers want to buy.
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