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12-letter words containing m, a, u, r, e

  • dromaeosaurs — Plural form of dromaeosaur.
  • drum machine — a device that simulates percussion sounds in various combinations and rhythms, and can alter digitally stored drum sounds or make digital recordings of drum sounds.
  • dutch master — one of a number of renowned and influential Dutch painters
  • duty manager — A duty manager is a person who is in charge at a particular time.
  • earth summit — a summit conference of 100 or more earth leaders debating global environmental and development issues, specifically the summit held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, but the term is also applied e.g. to a projected similar event in 2012
  • eau minerale — mineral water (def 1).
  • edvard munch — Edvard [ed-vahrd] /ˈɛd vɑrd/ (Show IPA), 1863–1944, Norwegian painter and graphic artist.
  • emolumentary — advantageous; tending towards emolument
  • empyreumatic — relating to empyreuma
  • 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.
  • erythematous — Of or pertaining to erythema.
  • euroterminal — a railway terminus from which trans-European trains operate
  • extramundane — Outside or beyond the physical world.
  • extramurally — In an extramural manner.
  • extramusical — outside the field or scope of music
  • farm produce — agricultural products regarded collectively
  • feature film — full-length movie
  • featurectomy — /fee"ch*r-ek"t*-mee/ The act of removing a feature from a program. Featurectomies come in two flavours, the "righteous" and the "reluctant". Righteous featurectomies are performed because the remover believes the program would be more elegant without the feature, or there is already an equivalent and better way to achieve the same end. (Doing so is not quite the same thing as removing a misfeature.) Reluctant featurectomies are performed to satisfy some external constraint such as code size or execution speed.
  • 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.
  • flammiferous — flame-producing
  • fluviomarine — of or formed by the combined action of river and sea.
  • 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?
  • formularized — Simple past tense and past participle of formularize.
  • formularizer — One who formularizes.
  • formularizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of formularize.
  • frame buffer — (hardware)   Part of a video system in which an image is stored, pixel by pixel and which is used to refresh a raster image. The term "video memory" suggests a fairly static display whereas a frame buffer holds one frame from a sequence of frames forming a moving image. Frame buffers are found in frame grabbers and time base correction systems, for example.
  • 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).
  • fruit farmer — somebody who farms or grows fruit
  • frumentation — (in ancient Rome) a public donation of grain, often given to citizens during times of unease
  • fumariaceous — belonging to the plant family Fumariaceae.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • garbage dump — rubbish tip, place where refuse is disposed of
  • 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.
  • grudge match — You can call a contest between two people or groups a grudge match when they dislike each other.
  • gubernaculum — a part or organ that directs the movement or course of another part.
  • half measure — If someone refers to policies or actions as half measures, they are critical of them because they think that they are not forceful enough and are therefore of little value.
  • hard-mouthed — of or relating to a horse not sensitive to the pressure of a bit.
  • haulage firm — a firm that transports goods by lorry
  • heart murmur — murmur (def 3).
  • heterogamous — Genetics. having unlike gametes, or reproducing by the union of such gametes (opposed to isogamous).
  • hibernaculum — a protective case or covering, especially for winter, as of an animal or a plant bud.
  • horse manure — horse's excrement
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