12-letter words containing r, u, m, n, e
- countermoves — Plural form of countermove.
- counterstamp — a stamp added to a stamped paper or document as a qualifying mark.
- counterwoman — A woman who serves at a counter.
- country mile — a long way
- countrywomen — Plural form of countrywoman.
- crassamentum — a blood clot
- crater mound — huge, circular depression in central Ariz., believed to have been made by a meteorite: depth, 600 ft (183 m); diameter, 0.75 mi (1.2 km)
- cumbrousness — The state or quality of being cumbrous.
- 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.
- dame fortune — the personification of fortune as a woman
- deinotherium — any member of the genus Deinotherium, consisting of mammals resembling elephants that existed during the Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene epochs
- demand curve — A demand curve is a graph showing the price of an item and the amount consumers want to buy.
- dessert menu — In a restaurant or café, the dessert menu is a list of the desserts that are available.
- deuteronomic — of, relating to, or resembling Deuteronomy, especially the laws contained in that book.
- disbursement — the act or an instance of disbursing.
- disenamoured — to disillusion; disenchant (usually used in the passive and followed by of or with): He was disenamored of working in the city.
- disencumbers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disencumber.
- dreamfulness — the quality of being full of dreams
- 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.
- drum printer — a line printer that uses a rotating drum with raised characters, against which the paper is pressed.
- duty manager — A duty manager is a person who is in charge at a particular time.
- eau minerale — mineral water (def 1).
- edvard munch — Edvard [ed-vahrd] /ˈɛd vɑrd/ (Show IPA), 1863–1944, Norwegian painter and graphic artist.
- emolumentary — advantageous; tending towards emolument
- encumberment — the act of being encumbered
- encumbrancer — Alternative form of incumbrancer.
- encumbrances — Plural form of encumbrance.
- enormousness — Great size or magnitude.
- enumerations — Plural form of enumeration.
- 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.
- equinumerous — having the same number of members
- eurocentrism — Alternative capitalization of Eurocentrism.
- euroterminal — a railway terminus from which trans-European trains operate
- extramundane — Outside or beyond the physical world.
- fenfluramine — a sympathomimetic substance, C 12 H 16 F 3 N, formerly used mainly as an anorectic in the treatment of obesity but withdrawn from the market in 1997 because of its potential to cause valvular heart disease.
- ferroniobium — An important alloy of iron and niobium.
- flindermouse — (obsolete) A bat (the mammal).
- flourishment — The act or state of flourishing.
- fluviomarine — of or formed by the combined action of river and sea.
- flying lemur — either of two lemurlike mammals, Cynocephalus variegatus, of southeastern Asia and the East Indies, or C. volans, of the Philippines, having broad folds of skin on both sides of the body to aid in gliding from tree to tree: now rare.
- 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).
- frumentation — (in ancient Rome) a public donation of grain, often given to citizens during times of unease
- fund manager — A fund manager is someone whose job involves investing the money contained in a fund, for example, a mutual fund, on behalf of another person or organization.
- funeral home — an establishment where the dead are prepared for burial or cremation, where the body may be viewed, and where funeral services are sometimes held.
- 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