11-letter words containing r, e, n, u, c
- encumbering — Present participle of encumber.
- encumbrance — A burden or impediment.
- end product — result of a process
- endocardium — The thin, smooth membrane that lines the inside of the chambers of the heart and forms the surface of the valves.
- endocranium — (anatomy) The layer between the dura mater and the skull.
- ensepulcher — (transitive) To lay in a sepulcher; to entomb.
- ensepulchre — to place into a sepulchre
- enunciators — Plural form of enunciator.
- erubescence — the process of growing red or a condition of redness
- eructations — Plural form of eructation.
- euchromatin — the part of a chromosome that constitutes the major genes and does not stain strongly with basic dyes when the cell is not dividing
- eurocentric — Alternative form of Eurocentric.
- excrementum — an item of waste material or rubbish
- executioner — An official who carries out a sentence of death on a legally condemned person.
- facinerious — (in the works of Shakespeare) extremely wicked
- farinaceous — consisting or made of flour or meal, as food.
- fluorescein — an orange-red, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 20 H 12 O 5 , that in alkaline solutions produces an orange color and an intense green fluorescence: used to trace subterranean waters and in dyes.
- fluorescent — possessing the property of fluorescence; exhibiting fluorescence.
- fluorescing — Present participle of fluoresce.
- fraudulence — characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes.
- fraudulency — characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes.
- french cuff — a double cuff formed by folding back a wide band at the end of a sleeve, usually fastened by a cuff link.
- frequencies — Plural form of frequency.
- funfkirchen — German name of Pécs.
- furnacelike — Resembling or characteristic of a furnace.
- furtherance — the act of furthering; promotion; advancement.
- gas furnace — a furnace using gas as a fuel.
- glucuronide — a glycoside that yields glucuronic acid upon hydrolysis.
- granduncles — Plural form of granduncle.
- granulocyte — a circulating white blood cell having prominent granules in the cytoplasm and a nucleus of two or more lobes.
- great-uncle — a granduncle.
- grouchiness — The characteristic or quality of being grouchy.
- ground crew — ground personnel responsible for the maintenance and repair of aircraft.
- groundcover — Alternative spelling of ground cover.
- guinea corn — durra.
- gun culture — the attitudes, feelings, values, and behaviour of a society, or any social group, in which guns are used
- hardecanute — 1019?–42, king of Denmark 1035–42, king of England 1040–42 (son of Canute).
- hardicanute — 1019?–42, king of Denmark 1035–42, king of England 1040–42 (son of Canute).
- herculaneum — an ancient city in SW Italy, on the Bay of Naples: buried along with Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in a.d. 79; partially excavated.
- hermeneutic — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
- hibernacula — Plural form of hibernaculum.
- homonuclear — a homonuclear molecule is composed of atoms of the same element or isotope and all of its nuclei are alike
- honeysucker — a bird that feeds on the nectar of flowers.
- horn clause — (logic) A set of atomic literals with at most one positive literal. Usually written L <- L1, ..., Ln or <- L1, ..., Ln where n>=0, "<-" means "is implied by" and comma stands for conjuction ("AND"). If L is false the clause is regarded as a goal. Horn clauses can express a subset of statements of first order logic. The name "Horn Clause" comes from the logician Alfred Horn, who first pointed out the significance of such clauses in 1951, in the article "On sentences which are true of direct unions of algebras", Journal of Symbolic Logic, 16, 14-21. A definite clause is a Horn clause that has exactly one positive literal.
- huckstering — Present participle of huckster.
- hue and cry — Early English Law. the pursuit of a felon or an offender with loud outcries or clamor to give an alarm.
- humperdinck — Engelbert [eng-uh l-bert;; English eng-guh l-burt] /ˈɛŋ əlˌbɛrt;; English ˈɛŋ gəlˌbɜrt/ (Show IPA), 1854–1921, German composer.
- incertitude — uncertainty or doubtfulness.
- include war — Excessive multi-leveled including within a discussion thread, a practice that tends to annoy readers. In a forum with high-traffic newsgroups, such as Usenet, this can lead to flames and the urge to start a kill file.
- incongruent — not congruent.