12-letter words containing l, u, c, r, e
- filthy lucre — money: to lose one's health for the sake of filthy lucre.
- 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.
- floriculture — the cultivation of flowers or flowering plants, especially for ornamental purposes.
- fluidextract — a liquid preparation, containing alcohol as a solvent or as a preservative, that contains in each cubic centimeter the medicinal activity of one gram of the crude drug in powdered form.
- 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.
- fluorimetric — Alternative form of fluorometric.
- fluorochrome — any of a group of fluorescent dyes used to label biological material.
- fluorometric — Of, pertaining to, or measured using fluorometry.
- fluoroscoped — Simple past tense and past participle of fluoroscope.
- fluoroscopes — Plural form of fluoroscope.
- flutter kick — a swimming kick in which the legs make rapid alternate up-and-down movements while the knees remain rigid, as in the crawl.
- 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?
- fortruncible — A cross between Fortran and RUNCIBLE for the IBM 650. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
- four-channel — Audio. quadraphonic.
- 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.
- gear cluster — an assembly of gears permanently attached to a shaft
- 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.
- glucoprotein — glycoprotein.
- gracefullest — Superlative form of graceful.
- gracefulness — The state of being graceful.
- grand coulee — a dry canyon in central Washington: cut by the Columbia River in the glacial period. 52 miles (84 km) long; over 400 feet (120 meters) deep.
- granulocytes — Plural form of granulocyte.
- ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
- groupuscules — Plural form of groupuscule.
- gubernacular — relating to a gubernaculum
- gubernaculum — a part or organ that directs the movement or course of another part.
- h paul grice — H(erbert) Paul, 1913–88, English philosopher.
- half-century — a period of 100 years.
- helichrysums — Plural form of helichrysum.
- hibernaculum — a protective case or covering, especially for winter, as of an animal or a plant bud.
- holy picture — a picture of a person or thing that is of religious importance
- horticulture — the cultivation of a garden, orchard, or nursery; the cultivation of flowers, fruits, vegetables, or ornamental plants.
- housecleaner — Someone employed to clean a house.
- hydraulicked — (of an extracted mineral) excavated using water
- hydroculture — A type of hydroponics in which plants are grown in a medium that allows the distribution of water and nutrients through capillary action.
- implicatures — Plural form of implicature.
- inaccurately — In an inaccurate manner; incorrectly; inexactly.
- inarticulate — lacking the ability to express oneself, especially in clear and effective speech: an inarticulate public speaker.
- inclusive or — the connective that gives the value true to a disjunction if either or both of the disjuncts are true
- indecorously — not decorous; violating generally accepted standards of good taste or propriety; unseemly.
- inoperculate — having no operculum.
- inscrutables — Plural form of inscrutable.