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

  • 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.
  • custom-order — to obtain by special or individual order: These wide doors have to be custom-ordered.
  • cyber mosque — a website dealing with Islamic religious matters
  • demand curve — A demand curve is a graph showing the price of an item and the amount consumers want to buy.
  • deuteronomic — of, relating to, or resembling Deuteronomy, especially the laws contained in that book.
  • discomfiture — Archaic. defeat in battle; rout.
  • discomposure — the state of being discomposed; disorder; agitation; perturbation.
  • disencumbers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disencumber.
  • diverticulum — a blind, tubular sac or process branching off from a canal or cavity, especially an abnormal, saclike herniation of the mucosal layer through the muscular wall of the colon.
  • double cream — (in France) a fresh, soft cheese with at least 60 percent fat, made from cow's milk enriched with cream.
  • drum machine — a device that simulates percussion sounds in various combinations and rhythms, and can alter digitally stored drum sounds or make digital recordings of drum sounds.
  • dumper truck — A dumper truck is the same as a dump truck.
  • dutch master — one of a number of renowned and influential Dutch painters
  • edvard munch — Edvard [ed-vahrd] /ˈɛd vɑrd/ (Show IPA), 1863–1944, Norwegian painter and graphic artist.
  • empyreumatic — relating to empyreuma
  • encumberment — the act of being encumbered
  • encumbrancer — Alternative form of incumbrancer.
  • encumbrances — Plural form of encumbrance.
  • epicureanism — An ancient school of philosophy founded in Athens by Epicurus. The school rejected determinism and advocated hedonism (pleasure as the highest good), but of a restrained kind: mental pleasure was regarded more highly than physical, and the ultimate pleasure was held to be freedom from anxiety and mental pain, esp. that arising from needless fear of death and of the gods.
  • ethylmercury — (chemistry) The organometallic cation CH3CH2Hg+; it is a toxicant that does not seem to accumulate in the environment.
  • eurocentrism — Alternative capitalization of Eurocentrism.
  • extramusical — outside the field or scope of music
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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?
  • 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
  • graminaceous — Of, pertaining to, or resembling a grass.
  • grudge match — You can call a contest between two people or groups a grudge match when they dislike each other.
  • gubernaculum — a part or organ that directs the movement or course of another part.
  • helichrysums — Plural form of helichrysum.
  • hermeneutics — the science of interpretation, especially of the Scriptures.
  • 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
  • hibernaculum — a protective case or covering, especially for winter, as of an animal or a plant bud.
  • home country — the country a person comes from
  • homo erectus — an extinct species of the human lineage, formerly known as Pithecanthropus erectus, having upright stature and a well-evolved postcranial skeleton, but with a smallish brain, low forehead, and protruding face.
  • hunger march — a procession of protest or demonstration by the unemployed
  • implicatures — Plural form of implicature.
  • income group — a group in a given population having incomes within a certain range
  • incumbrancer — (legal) One who holds incumbrance, or some legal claim, lien, or charge on an estate.
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