12-letter words containing m, c, a, u
- countrywoman — A countrywoman is a woman who lives in the country rather than in a city or a town.
- coup de main — an attack that achieves complete surprise
- crassamentum — a blood clot
- 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)
- craw-thumper — an ostentatiously pious person
- crematoriums — Plural form of crematorium.
- crumble away — disintegrate
- cryptogamous — Of or pertaining to the cryptogams.
- culminations — The highest or climactic point of something, esp. as attained after a long time.
- cumulatively — increasing or growing by accumulation or successive additions: the cumulative effect of one rejection after another.
- cuprammonium — an ion of copper oxide used (in solution) in the manufacture of rayon and other man-made fibres
- curanderismo — the use of folk medicine, especially as practiced by a curandero.
- curia romana — the body of congregations, offices, permanent commissions, etc., that assist the pope in the government and administration of the church.
- curtailments — Plural form of curtailment.
- curtain time — the time at which a play or other performance is scheduled to begin.
- custodialism — of or relating to custody.
- customisable — Alternative spelling of customizable.
- customizable — to modify or build according to individual or personal specifications or preference: to customize an automobile.
- decumulation — a decrease in amount or value
- demand curve — A demand curve is a graph showing the price of an item and the amount consumers want to buy.
- diatomaceous — of, relating to, consisting of, or containing diatoms or their fossil remains
- discomedusan — a member of the Discomedusae, an order of jellyfish with flattened bodies
- docudramatic — Of or relating to docudrama.
- documentable — a written or printed paper furnishing information or evidence, as a passport, deed, bill of sale, or bill of lading; a legal or official paper.
- docutainment — infotainment (def 2).
- double cream — (in France) a fresh, soft cheese with at least 60 percent fat, made from cow's milk enriched with cream.
- 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.
- duncan smith — (George) Iain. born 1954, British politician; leader of the Conservative Party (2001–03); secretary of state for work and pensions (2010–2016)
- dutch master — one of a number of renowned and influential Dutch painters
- ecumenically — general; universal.
- edvard munch — Edvard [ed-vahrd] /ˈɛd vɑrd/ (Show IPA), 1863–1944, Norwegian painter and graphic artist.
- emasculating — Present participle of emasculate.
- emasculation — The act of depriving of virility, or the state of being so deprived; castration.
- empyreumatic — relating to empyreuma
- encumbrancer — Alternative form of incumbrancer.
- encumbrances — Plural form of encumbrance.
- 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.
- extramusical — outside the field or scope of music
- family court — court of domestic relations.
- farm produce — agricultural products regarded collectively
- 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.
- forasmuch as — since
- 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?
- 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).
- fumariaceous — belonging to the plant family Fumariaceae.
- fumaric acid — a colorless, odorless, crystalline, slightly water-soluble solid, C 4 H 4 O 4 , isomeric with maleic acid, essential to cellular respiration in most eukaryotic organisms: used in the making of synthetic resins and as a replacement for tartaric acid in beverages and baking powders.
- 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
- furocoumarin — psoralen.
- glaucomatous — Ophthalmology. abnormally high fluid pressure in the eye, most commonly caused either by blockage of the channel through which aqueous humor drains (open-angle glaucoma or chronic glaucoma) or by pressure of the iris against the lens, which traps the aqueous humor (angle-closure glaucoma or acute glaucoma)
- graminaceous — Of, pertaining to, or resembling a grass.