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12-letter words containing s, u, c

  • eunuchoidism — A syndrome in males with a lack of sex characteristics due to lack of proper male sex hormones.
  • eurocentrism — Alternative capitalization of Eurocentrism.
  • exclusionary — restrictive or elitist
  • exclusionism — The quality of being exclusionist.
  • exclusionist — Acting to shut out or bar someone from a place, group, or privilege.
  • exclusive of — not including or allowing for; ignoring
  • exclusive or — (logic)   (XOR, EOR) /X or, E or/ A two-input function whose result is true if one input is true and the other is false. The truth table is A | B | A xor B --+---+-------- F | F | F F | T | T T | F | T T | T | F The output is thus true if the inputs are not equal. If one input is false, the other is passed unchanged whereas if one input is true, the other is inverted. In Boolean algebra, exclusive or is often written as a plus in a circle: "⊕". The circle may be omitted suggesting addition modulo two. In digital logic, an exclusive or logic gate is drawn like a normal inclusive or gate but with a curved line across both inputs: {exclusive or gate " />.
  • excursioning — Present participle of excursion.
  • excursionist — A person who goes on excursions; a traveller or tourist.
  • excursionize — to go on an excursion or excursions
  • executioners — Plural form of executioner.
  • executorship — The office or position of an executor.
  • exonucleases — Plural form of exonuclease.
  • exsufflicate — Empty, inflated, frivolous.
  • extramusical — outside the field or scope of music
  • facial scrub — a beauty product or treatment which cleanses and exfoliates the skin of the face
  • factiousness — given to faction; dissentious: A factious group was trying to undermine the government.
  • factitiously — In a factitious manner.
  • factualities — of or relating to facts; concerning facts: factual accuracy.
  • fallaciously — In a fallacious manner, erroneously, illogically.
  • false cirrus — a type of thick cirrus cloud spreading from the top of a cumulonimbus cloud
  • false colour — colour used in a computer or photographic display to help in interpreting the image, as in the use of red to show high temperatures and blue to show low temperatures in an infrared image converter
  • fancifulness — The quality of being fanciful.
  • fascicularly — in a fascicular manner
  • fasciculated — Grouped in a fascicle; fascicled.
  • felicitously — In a felicitous manner.
  • fictitiously — created, taken, or assumed for the sake of concealment; not genuine; false: fictitious names.
  • field circus — A derogatory pun on "field service". The field service organisation of any hardware manufacturer, but especially DEC. There is an entire genre of jokes about DEC field circus engineers: Q: How can you recognise a DEC field circus engineer with a flat tire? A: He's changing one tire at a time to see which one is flat. Q: How can you recognise a DEC field circus engineer who is out of gas? A: He's changing one tire at a time to see which one is flat. See Easter egging for additional insight on these jokes. There is also the "Field Circus Cheer" (from the plan file for DEC on MIT-AI): Maynard! Maynard! Don't mess with us! We're mean and we're tough! If you get us confused We'll screw up your stuff. (DEC's service HQ is located in Maynard, Massachusetts).
  • final clause — a clause expressing intention or purpose
  • first cousin — cousin (def 1).
  • fish culture — the artificial propagation and breeding of fish.
  • flesh colour — of a yellowish-pink to yellowish-grey colour roughly that of the skin of a white person
  • flickermouse — Alternative form of flittermouse.
  • fluctuations — Plural form of fluctuation.
  • fluoresceine — Alternative spelling of fluorescein.
  • fluorescence — the emission of radiation, especially of visible light, by a substance during exposure to external radiation, as light or x-rays. Compare phosphorescence (def 1).
  • fluorescents — Plural form of fluorescent.
  • fluoroscoped — Simple past tense and past participle of fluoroscope.
  • fluoroscopes — Plural form of fluoroscope.
  • fluoroscopic — of or relating to the fluoroscope or fluoroscopy.
  • fluosilicate — a salt of fluosilicic acid.
  • flush-decked — having a weather deck flush with the hull.
  • focus puller — the member of a camera crew who adjusts the focus of the lens as the camera is tracked in or out
  • folliculitis — inflammation of hair follicles.
  • forasmuch as — since
  • forcefulness — full of force; powerful; vigorous; effective: a forceful plea for peace.
  • foreclosures — Plural form of foreclosure.
  • 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?
  • four-corners — a point in the SW U.S., at the intersection of 37° N latitude and 109° W longitude, where the boundaries of four states—Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico—meet: the only such point in the U.S.
  • fourses cake — a traditional English bread made with lard, dried fruit, and spices
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