12-letter words containing s, e, t, c, r, u
- crime-buster — a law officer who specializes in fighting large-scale organized crime
- crookes tube — a type of cathode-ray tube in which the electrons are produced by a glow discharge in a low-pressure gas
- crosscurrent — a current in a river or sea flowing across another current
- cub mistress — a woman who organizes a pack of cub scouts
- cuneiformist — a person who studies or deciphers cuneiform writing.
- curate's egg — something that has both good and bad parts
- current cost — The current cost of assets is their current value, or what it would cost to replace them at this time.
- curtail step — the step or steps at the foot of a flight of stairs, widened at one or both ends and terminated with a scroll
- curtail-step — a horizontal, spiral termination to the lower end of a stair railing.
- curtailments — Plural form of curtailment.
- curvicostate — having curved ribs
- custom-order — to obtain by special or individual order: These wide doors have to be custom-ordered.
- daisy cutter — a powerful shot that moves close to the ground
- daisy-cutter — Sports Slang. a batted or served ball that skims along near the ground.
- declustering — Any technique that counteracts clustering (in any sense).
- deconstructs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deconstruct.
- decrustation — the act of removing a crust
- destructible — capable of being or liable to be destroyed
- destructured — mode of building, construction, or organization; arrangement of parts, elements, or constituents: a pyramidal structure.
- deuteroscopy — the second time of looking or considering
- disc shutter — a shutter in a movie camera or projector that covers the gap between separate frames
- discomfiture — Archaic. defeat in battle; rout.
- discourteous — not courteous; impolite; uncivil; rude: a discourteous salesman.
- discoverture — the state of being discovert; freedom from coverture.
- disjunctures — Plural form of disjuncture.
- disturbances — Plural form of disturbance.
- dryopithecus — an extinct genus of generalized hominoids that lived in Europe and Africa during the Miocene Epoch and whose members are characterized by small molars and incisors.
- dust catcher — Informal. a knickknack or other household object that is little used.
- dust counter — any instrument used to measure the size and number of dust particles per unit volume in the atmosphere.
- dusty clover — a bush clover, Lespedeza capitata.
- dutch master — one of a number of renowned and influential Dutch painters
- electrocutes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of electrocute.
- electrotonus — the change in the state of irritability and conductivity of a nerve or muscle caused by the passage of an electric current
- encrustation — The action of encrusting or state of being encrusted.
- enstructured — built into the structure of something
- enterococcus — A streptococcus of a group that occurs naturally in the intestine but causes inflammation and blood infection if introduced elsewhere in the body (e.g., by injury or surgery).
- escape route — way out: of situation
- eurocentrism — Alternative capitalization of Eurocentrism.
- excursionist — A person who goes on excursions; a traveller or tourist.
- executioners — Plural form of executioner.
- executorship — The office or position of an executor.
- extramusical — outside the field or scope of music
- fish culture — the artificial propagation and breeding of fish.
- fluorescents — Plural form of fluorescent.
- fructiferous — fruit-bearing; producing fruit.
- 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).
- future shock — physical and psychological disturbance caused by a person's inability to cope with very rapid social and technological change.
- gear cluster — an assembly of gears permanently attached to a shaft
- gesticulator — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
- glass cutter — a tool for cutting glass.