12-letter words containing r, e, c, u, m
- transhumance — the seasonal migration of livestock, and the people who tend them, between lowlands and adjacent mountains.
- trench mouth — Vincent's angina.
- trimolecular — pertaining to or having three molecules.
- truck camper — a type of camper designed to be mounted on a pickup truck.
- truck system — the system of paying wages in goods instead of money.
- trumpet call — a blast made by a trumpet that serves as a summons or call
- turned comma — quotation mark.
- ubermenschen — superman (def 2).
- un-manicured — a cosmetic treatment of the hands and fingernails, including trimming and polishing of the nails and removing cuticles.
- unbesmirched — to soil; tarnish; discolor.
- uncommercial — not engaged in or involved with commerce or trade.
- uncomparable — capable of being compared; having features in common with something else to permit or suggest comparison: He considered the Roman and British empires to be comparable.
- undemocratic — pertaining to or of the nature of democracy or a democracy.
- unencumbered — not impeded, slowed down, or retarded; free to move, advance, or go forward.
- unimolecular — of or involving only one molecular entity
- unimportance — a lack of importance
- unmercifully — merciless; relentless; severe; cruel; pitiless.
- unproclaimed — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
- up-and-comer — likely to succeed; bright and industrious: an up-and-coming young executive.
- urethrectomy — excision or removal of part or all of the urethra.
- uricacidemia — lithemia.
- vacuum brake — a brake system, used on British and many overseas railways, in which the brake is held off by a vacuum on one side of the brake-operating cylinder. If the vacuum is destroyed by controlled leakage of air or a disruptive emergency, the brake is applied. It is now largely superseded by the Westinghouse brake system
- vacuum frame — a machine from which the air is extracted in order to obtain close contact between the surfaces of two materials, e.g. the film and plate during platemaking
- vacuum servo — a servomechanism that is operated by the lowering of pressure in the intake duct of an internal-combustion engine
- vermiculture — the raising and production of earthworms and their by-products.
- verticillium — a fungus in the Verticillium genus which normally affects plants or insects
- very much so — The expression very much so is an emphatic way of answering 'yes' to something or saying that it is true or correct.