12-letter words containing r, e, c, o, m
- enforcements — Plural form of enforcement.
- enharmonical — relating to the enharmonic scale
- ergonometric — Ergonomic.
- erythromycin — An antibiotic used in the treatment of infections caused by Gram-positive bacteria. It is similar in its effects to penicillin.
- etheromaniac — a person who is addicted to ether
- eurocentrism — Alternative capitalization of Eurocentrism.
- 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.
- fire company — a company of firefighters.
- flame carbon — a carbon electrode containing metallic salts that colour the arc in a flame-arc light
- flickermouse — Alternative form of flittermouse.
- fluorimetric — Alternative form of fluorometric.
- fluorochrome — any of a group of fluorescent dyes used to label biological material.
- fluorometric — Of, pertaining to, or measured using fluorometry.
- forced march — any march that is longer than troops are accustomed to and maintained at a faster pace than usual, generally undertaken for a particular objective under emergency conditions.
- 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?
- fort mchenry — a town in NE Illinois.
- free company — a band of free companions.
- frolicsomely — In a frolicsome manner.
- 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.
- 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
- galactometer — a lactometer.
- gastrocnemii — Plural form of gastrocnemius.
- geochemistry — the science dealing with the chemical changes in and the composition of the earth's crust.
- geometrician — a person skilled in geometry.
- geometricize — to draw, design, or form in geometrical shapes or patterns.
- german ocean — an arm of the Atlantic between Great Britain and the European mainland. About 201,000 sq. mi. (520,600 sq. km); greatest depth, 1998 feet (610 meters).
- graeco-roman — of or having both Greek and Roman characteristics: the Greco-Roman influence.
- gram calorie — calorie (def 1a). Abbreviation: g-cal.
- graminaceous — Of, pertaining to, or resembling a grass.
- gravicembalo — a harpsichord.
- groom's cake — a fruit cake in layers of graduated size, served at a wedding.
- gross income — Accounting. total revenue received before any deductions or allowances, as for rent, cost of goods sold, taxes, etc.
- gyromagnetic — of or relating to the magnetic properties of a rotating charged particle.
- haemorrhagic — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of hemorrhagic.
- hemerocallis — the genus comprising the day lilies.
- hemichordate — belonging or pertaining to the chordates of the phylum Hemichordata, comprising small, widely distributed, marine animals, as the acorn worms.
- heroic drama — Restoration tragedy, especially that popular in England c1660–1700, using highly rhetorical language and written in heroic couplets.
- heroicomical — blending heroic and comic elements: a heroicomic poem.
- herstmonceux — a village in S England, in E Sussex north of Eastbourne: 15th-century castle, site of the Royal Observatory, which was transferred from Greenwich between 1948 and 1958, until 1990
- heterochrome — heterochromatic.
- hire company — a company that hires things out to people
- home country — the country a person comes from
- home stretch — final stages: of race or journey
- home teacher — private tutor
- homeomorphic — similarity in crystalline form but not necessarily in chemical composition.
- homeothermic — (biology, of an, animal) Capable of maintaining a relatively constant body temperature independent of the surrounding environment.
- homeschooler — One who homeschools a student (typically the parent).
- homescreetch — a mistle thrush