12-letter words containing m, o, t, r, e, c
- thermometric — an instrument for measuring temperature, often a sealed glass tube that contains a column of liquid, as mercury, that expands and contracts, or rises and falls, with temperature changes, the temperature being read where the top of the column coincides with a calibrated scale marked on the tube or its frame.
- thermophilic — growing best in a warm environment.
- thermostatic — a device, including a relay actuated by thermal conduction or convection, that functions to establish and maintain a desired temperature automatically or signals a change in temperature for manual adjustment.
- thermotropic — oriented growth of an organism in response to heat.
- thoracectomy — excision of part or all of a rib.
- thrombectomy — surgical removal of a blood clot from a blood vessel.
- tracheostomy — the construction of an artificial opening through the neck into the trachea, usually for the relief of difficulty in breathing.
- tragi-comedy — A tragi-comedy is a play or other written work that is both sad and amusing.
- trench mouth — Vincent's angina.
- trichotomize — to divide into three parts or categories
- trimolecular — pertaining to or having three molecules.
- trocheameter — a device that records the distance that a motor vehicle has travelled
- trochelminth — any invertebrate of the phylum Trochelminthes (now usually broken up into several phyla), comprising the rotifers, gastrotrichs, and several other forms.
- tronc master — a person who distributes pooled tips and service charges to waiters, waitresses, hotel workers etc.
- turned comma — quotation mark.
- undemocratic — pertaining to or of the nature of democracy or a democracy.
- unimportance — a lack of importance
- urethrectomy — excision or removal of part or all of the urethra.
- visceromotor — of or relating to the normal movements of the viscera, especially the digestive tract.
- zoochemistry — the branch of chemistry dealing with the constituents of the animal body; animal chemistry.