12-letter words containing m, a, n, u, e
- emasculation — The act of depriving of virility, or the state of being so deprived; castration.
- emolumentary — advantageous; tending towards emolument
- encumbrancer — Alternative form of incumbrancer.
- encumbrances — Plural form of encumbrance.
- enumerations — Plural form of enumeration.
- 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.
- euroterminal — a railway terminus from which trans-European trains operate
- exalbuminous — (of a seed embryo) having no albumen
- extramundane — Outside or beyond the physical world.
- fenfluramine — a sympathomimetic substance, C 12 H 16 F 3 N, formerly used mainly as an anorectic in the treatment of obesity but withdrawn from the market in 1997 because of its potential to cause valvular heart disease.
- flannelmouth — a person whose speech is thick, slow, or halting.
- fluviomarine — of or formed by the combined action of river and sea.
- fructosamine — (organic compound) A chemical compound that can be considered the result of a reaction between fructose and ammonia or an amine (with a molecule of water being released).
- frumentation — (in ancient Rome) a public donation of grain, often given to citizens during times of unease
- fund manager — A fund manager is someone whose job involves investing the money contained in a fund, for example, a mutual fund, on behalf of another person or organization.
- fundamentals — serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying: fundamental principles; the fundamental structure.
- funeral home — an establishment where the dead are prepared for burial or cremation, where the body may be viewed, and where funeral services are sometimes held.
- furnace room — a room containing a furnace or an enclosed chamber for producing heat, often on the bottom floor of the building that it heats
- gelande jump — jump made in downhill skiing
- glenohumeral — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the glenoid fossa and the humerus.
- gourmandizer — One who gourmandizes.
- graminaceous — Of, pertaining to, or resembling a grass.
- green manure — a crop of growing plants, as clover and other nitrogen-fixing plants, plowed under to enrich the soil.
- gubernaculum — a part or organ that directs the movement or course of another part.
- gum-benjamin — Also called gum benjamin, gum benzoin. a reddish-brown, aromatic balsamic resin occurring in almondlike fragments and having a vanillalike odor, obtained from trees of the genus Styrax, especially S. benzoin, of Java, Sumatra, etc.: used in the manufacture of perfume and cosmetics and in medicine internally as an expectorant and externally as an antiseptic.
- haussmannize — to rebuild in a similar fashion as Haussmann rebuilt Paris
- helianthemum — (botany) Any of the genus Helianthemum of rockroses.
- hematogenous — originating in the blood.
- hibernaculum — a protective case or covering, especially for winter, as of an animal or a plant bud.
- homologumena — the books in the New Testament generally held as authoritative and canonical by the early church.
- horse manure — horse's excrement
- house martin — a small European swallow, Delichon urbica, that builds its nest under the eaves of houses.
- housewarming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
- huffman code — Huffman coding
- human comedy — French La Comédie Humaine. a collected edition of tales and novels in 17 volumes (1842–48) by Honoré de Balzac.
- human genome — genetic code of human beings
- human nature — the psychological and social qualities that characterize humankind, especially in contrast with other living things.
- human shield — a person or group of people located or intentionally placed in a potential line of fire or in an area likely to be attacked.
- humble plant — sensitive plant (def 1).
- hunger march — a procession of protest or demonstration by the unemployed
- illuminative — giving light; illuminating.
- immatureness — not mature, ripe, developed, perfected, etc.
- immensurable — immeasurable.
- in a measure — to an extent
- in miniature — on a smaller scale
- incommutable — not exchangeable.
- incomputable — incapable of being computed; incalculable.
- inconsumable — not consumable; incapable of being consumed.
- incumbrancer — (legal) One who holds incumbrance, or some legal claim, lien, or charge on an estate.
- incumbrances — Plural form of incumbrance.