12-letter words containing r, o, m, u
- deambulatory — a place for walking often with a covering overhead
- deinotherium — any member of the genus Deinotherium, consisting of mammals resembling elephants that existed during the Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene epochs
- desquamatory — an obsolete surgical instrument once used for the desquamation of bones
- deuteronomic — of, relating to, or resembling Deuteronomy, especially the laws contained in that book.
- deuterostome — any member of the major group of animals defined by the fact that during early embryonic development the first opening to form becomes the anus of the animal. The opposite is protostome
- discomfiture — Archaic. defeat in battle; rout.
- discomposure — the state of being discomposed; disorder; agitation; perturbation.
- disenamoured — to disillusion; disenchant (usually used in the passive and followed by of or with): He was disenamored of working in the city.
- dissimulator — One who dissimulates.
- docudramatic — Of or relating to docudrama.
- dolphinarium — An aquarium in which dolphins are kept and trained for public entertainment.
- double cream — (in France) a fresh, soft cheese with at least 60 percent fat, made from cow's milk enriched with cream.
- double major — a major with concentration in two separate fields of study
- double rhyme — a rhyme either of two syllables of which the second is unstressed (double rhyme) as in motion, notion, or of three syllables of which the second and third are unstressed (triple rhyme) as in fortunate, importunate.
- dromaeosaurs — Plural form of dromaeosaur.
- dry mounting — the technique of fastening a print, photograph, or the like to a board by using a heated thermoplastic tissue as an adhesive.
- dumortierite — a mineral, aluminum borosilicate.
- ebulliometer — a device used to determine the boiling point of a solution
- effusiometer — an apparatus for determining rates of effusion of gases, usually used for measuring molecular weights
- embourgeoise — to make bourgeois
- emolumentary — advantageous; tending towards emolument
- enormousness — Great size or magnitude.
- enumerations — Plural form of enumeration.
- equinumerous — having the same number of members
- equisetiform — having the form of equisetum
- erythematous — Of or pertaining to erythema.
- eurocentrism — Alternative capitalization of Eurocentrism.
- euroterminal — a railway terminus from which trans-European trains operate
- 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.
- ferroniobium — An important alloy of iron and niobium.
- firmer gouge — a narrow-bladed gouge similar in manner of use to a firmer chisel.
- flammiferous — flame-producing
- flickermouse — Alternative form of flittermouse.
- flindermouse — (obsolete) A bat (the mammal).
- flittermouse — bat2 (def 1).
- flourishment — The act or state of flourishing.
- fluorimeters — Plural form of fluorimeter.
- fluorimetric — Alternative form of fluorometric.
- fluorochrome — any of a group of fluorescent dyes used to label biological material.
- fluorometers — Plural form of fluorometer.
- fluorometric — Of, pertaining to, or measured using fluorometry.
- fluviomarine — of or formed by the combined action of river and sea.
- forasmuch as — since
- 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?
- former pupil — someone who used to attend a particular school or be a student of a particular teacher
- formula milk — An artificial substitute for breast milk intended for feeding infants. It can come in powdered form to be mixed with water or in instant liquid form.
- formula unit — (of an ionic compound that does not form molecules, as most salts) the chemical formula with the least number of elements out of the set of empirical formulas having the same proportion of ions as elements: NaCl is the formula unit for the ionic compound sodium chloride.
- formularized — Simple past tense and past participle of formularize.