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

  • 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— a sympathomimetic substance, C 12 H 16 F 3 N, formerly used mainly as an anorectic in the treatment of obesity but withdrawn from the market in 1997 because of its potential to cause valvular heart disease.
  • ferroniobium — An important alloy of iron and niobium.
  • firmer gouge — a narrow-bladed gouge similar in manner of use to a firmer chisel.
  • flammiferous — flame-producing
  • flickermouse — Alternative form of flittermouse.
  • flindermouse — (obsolete) A bat (the mammal).
  • flittermouse — bat2 (def 1).
  • flourishment — The act or state of flourishing.
  • fluorimeters — Plural form of fluorimeter.
  • fluorimetric — Alternative form of fluorometric.
  • fluorochrome — any of a group of fluorescent dyes used to label biological material.
  • fluorometers — Plural form of fluorometer.
  • fluorometric — Of, pertaining to, or measured using fluorometry.
  • flutter mill — a flutter wheel, especially a small one designed as a child's plaything.
  • fluviomarine — of or formed by the combined action of river and sea.
  • flying lemur — either of two lemurlike mammals, Cynocephalus variegatus, of southeastern Asia and the East Indies, or C. volans, of the Philippines, having broad folds of skin on both sides of the body to aid in gliding from tree to tree: now rare.
  • 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?
  • former pupil — someone who used to attend a particular school or be a student of a particular teacher
  • 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
  • furnishments — Plural form of furnishment.
  • garbage dump — rubbish tip, place where refuse is disposed of
  • glenohumeral — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the glenoid fossa and the humerus.
  • glomerulitis — inflammation of the glomeruli of the kidney.
  • good-humored — having or showing a pleasant, amiable mood: a good-humored man; a good-humored remark.
  • 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.
  • gruesomeness — The characteristic or quality of being gruesome.
  • 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).
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