12-letter words containing r, m, c
- ecotarianism — the principle or practice of avoiding eating any foods whose production or transportation are considered ecologically damaging
- ecoterrorism — Violence carried out to further environmentalist ends.
- edvard munch — Edvard [ed-vahrd] /ˈɛd vɑrd/ (Show IPA), 1863–1944, Norwegian painter and graphic artist.
- elasmobranch — A cartilaginous fish of a group that comprises the sharks, rays, and skates.
- electromeric — involving, or relating to, electromers
- electrometer — An instrument for measuring electrical potential without drawing any current from the circuit.
- electromotor — an electric motor
- emancipators — Plural form of emancipator.
- emancipatory — Of or pertaining to emancipation or to an emancipator.
- emancipatrix — A woman, girl, or any other entity treated as female who emancipates; a female emancipator.
- embranchment — A branching forth, as of trees for example.
- embrocations — Plural form of embrocation.
- empyreumatic — relating to empyreuma
- enantiomeric — Of or pertaining to an enantiomer or the relation between enantiomers.
- encipherment — The act or process of enciphering; encryption.
- encirclement — The act of encircling or the state of being encircled.
- encroachment — Intrusion on a person's territory, rights, etc.
- encumberment — the act of being encumbered
- encumbrancer — Alternative form of incumbrancer.
- encumbrances — Plural form of encumbrance.
- enforcements — Plural form of enforcement.
- enharmonical — relating to the enharmonic scale
- entrancement — The act of entrancing or the state of being entranced.
- entrenchment — The process of entrenching or something which entrenches.
- 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.
- epigrammatic — Of the nature or in the style of an epigram; concise, clever, and amusing.
- epirrhematic — relating to epirrhema
- 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
- ethylmercury — (chemistry) The organometallic cation CH3CH2Hg+; it is a toxicant that does not seem to accumulate in the environment.
- eurocentrism — Alternative capitalization of Eurocentrism.
- extracampine — (psychiatry, of hallucination) Beyond the possible sensory field.
- extramusical — outside the field or scope of music
- factory farm — a farm in which animals are bred and fattened using modern industrial methods
- family court — court of domestic relations.
- 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.
- fibrosarcoma — a sarcoma derived from fibroblast cells, often able to generate collagen.
- 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.
- fm cyclotron — a type of cyclotron that synchronizes its accelerating voltage with particle velocity in order to compensate for the relativistic mass increase of the particle as it approaches the speed of light.
- forasmuch as — since
- 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?
- formal logic — the branch of logic concerned exclusively with the principles of deductive reasoning and with the form rather than the content of propositions.