12-letter words containing m, e, n
- counterwoman — A woman who serves at a counter.
- country mile — a long way
- countrywomen — Plural form of countrywoman.
- coup de main — an attack that achieves complete surprise
- craniometric — the science of measuring skulls, chiefly to determine their characteristic relationship to sex, body type, or genetic population.
- craniotomies — Plural form of craniotomy.
- 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)
- cremationist — a person who advocates cremation instead of burial of the dead.
- criminalized — Simple past tense and past participle of criminalize.
- criminalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of criminalize.
- criminalness — (rare, dated) The state or quality of being criminal.
- criminogenic — causing or promoting crime
- cryptomnesia — the reappearance of a suppressed or forgotten memory which is mistaken for a new experience
- cryptomnesic — of, relating to, or characterized by cryptomnesia
- cum dividend — (of shares, etc) with the right to current dividend
- cumbrousness — The state or quality of being cumbrous.
- cuneiformist — a person who studies or deciphers cuneiform writing.
- curanderismo — the use of folk medicine, especially as practiced by a curandero.
- curmudgeonly — If you describe someone as curmudgeonly, you do not like them because they are mean or bad-tempered.
- curtailments — Plural form of curtailment.
- 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.
- cyber monday — the Monday after Thanksgiving, one of the busiest online shopping days.
- cytomembrane — a membrane around a cell that encloses cytoplasm and acts as a semi-permeable barrier
- damaskeening — Present participle of damaskeen.
- dame fortune — the personification of fortune as a woman
- damnableness — The state or quality of being damnable.
- danger money — extra money paid to compensate for the risks involved in certain dangerous jobs
- dark mineral — any rock-forming mineral that has a specific gravity greater than 2.8 and that is generally dark in color.
- data segment — (memory) The range of memory locations where the initialised data of a program produced by a Unix linker is located. Executable code is located in the code segment and uninitialised data in the bss segment.
- dealing room — A dealing room is a place where shares, currencies, or commodities are bought and sold.
- decalcomania — the art or process of transferring a design from prepared paper onto another surface, such as china, glass, or paper
- decalcomanie — (dated) decalcomania.
- decentralism — A policy of favouring decentralization.
- decimalizing — Present participle of decimalize.
- decipherment — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
- declamations — Plural form of declamation.
- declinometer — an instrument for measuring magnetic declination
- decommission — When something such as a nuclear reactor or a large machine is decommissioned, it is taken to pieces because it is no longer going to be used.
- decommunized — Simple past tense and past participle of decommunize.
- decompensate — to undergo decompensation due to disease or impairment
- decompounded — Simple past tense and past participle of decompound.
- decumulation — a decrease in amount or value
- deepwaterman — a ship that goes far out to sea and into deep water
- deflowerment — The loss of a girl or woman's virginity.
- deformations — Plural form of deformation.
- defragmented — Simple past tense and past participle of defragment.
- defragmenter — (computing) That which defragments; a program that performs defragmentation.
- degemination — (phonetics, uncountable) inverse process of gemination, when a spoken long consonant is pronounced for an audibly shorter period.