12-letter words containing o, u, t, c, m, e
- pocket mouse — any of numerous burrowing rodents, especially of the genus Perognathus, chiefly inhabiting arid regions of the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico, having fur-lined cheek pouches and a long tail.
- postconsumer — noting or pertaining to a product after it has been used and recycled: a chair made of postconsumer plastic.
- promuscidate — shaped like a proboscis
- pumice stone — abrasive stone used for exfoliating
- pumice-stone — Also called pumice stone. a porous or spongy form of volcanic glass, used as an abrasive.
- ramentaceous — resembling or covered with ramenta.
- recomforture — consolation; comfort
- reductionism — the theory that every complex phenomenon, especially in biology or psychology, can be explained by analyzing the simplest, most basic physical mechanisms that are in operation during the phenomenon.
- renouncement — to give up or put aside voluntarily: to renounce worldly pleasures.
- rockumentary — a documentary about rock music.
- scitamineous — of or relating to the Scitimanae order of plants, which includes the ginger and banana plants
- set to music — to compose music for (a poem, etc.)
- stereocilium — any of the long, flexible microvilli that superficially resemble cilia and occur as a brush border or series of tufts on the surface of various epithelial tissues.
- stumpknocker — spotted sunfish.
- subcommittee — a secondary committee appointed out of a main committee.
- subcomponent — a constituent part; element; ingredient.
- summer stock — the production of plays, musical comedy, etc., during the summer, especially in a suburban or resort area, often by a repertory company.
- telecommuter — person: works from home
- telecomputer — teleprocessing.
- theoclymenus — (in the Odyssey) a seer who foretold the return of Odysseus and the death of Penelope's suitors.
- thermocouple — a device that consists of the junction of two dissimilar metallic conductors, as copper and iron, in which an electromotive force is induced when the conductors are maintained at different temperatures, the force being related to the temperature difference: used to determine the temperature of a third substance by connecting it to the junction of the metals and measuring the electromotive force produced.
- tomato juice — liquid from a tomato
- tomato sauce — ketchup
- touch system — a system of typing in which each finger is assigned to one or more keys, thereby enabling a person to type without looking at the keyboard.
- touch-me-not — any of several plants belonging to the genus Impatiens, of the balsam family, especially I. noli-tangere, bearing pods that, when ripe, burst on being touched, scattering the seeds.
- trench mouth — Vincent's angina.
- trimolecular — pertaining to or having three molecules.
- turned comma — quotation mark.
- unaccustomed — not accustomed or habituated: to be unaccustomed to hardships.
- uncle tomism — a policy of relationship between whites and blacks involving a benevolent but patronizing attitude on the part of the whites and a willingly submissive attitude on the part of the blacks.
- uncomplacent — pleased, especially with oneself or one's merits, advantages, situation, etc., often without awareness of some potential danger or defect; self-satisfied: The voters are too complacent to change the government.
- uncomplicate — to make complex, intricate, involved, or difficult: His recovery from the operation was complicated by an allergic reaction.
- uncomputable — to determine by calculation; reckon; calculate: to compute the period of Jupiter's revolution.
- undemocratic — pertaining to or of the nature of democracy or a democracy.
- undocumented — lacking documentation or authentication.
- unimportance — a lack of importance
- unmethodical — characterized by lack of method or disorderliness
- urethrectomy — excision or removal of part or all of the urethra.
- vax document — A document preparation system from DEC.