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12-letter words containing t, u, m, e

  • new plymouth — a seaport on W North Island, in New Zealand.
  • nomenclature — a set or system of names or terms, as those used in a particular science or art, by an individual or community, etc.
  • nomenklatura — a select list or class of people from which appointees for top-level government positions are drawn, especially from a Communist Party.
  • non-computer — a programmable electronic device designed to accept data, perform prescribed mathematical and logical operations at high speed, and display the results of these operations. Mainframes, desktop and laptop computers, tablets, and smartphones are some of the different types of computers. Compare analog computer, digital computer.
  • nonautomated — not automated or operated by machines
  • nonclemature — Misspelling of nomenclature.
  • nonincumbent — a candidate or party in an election that does not already hold the position
  • nonpetroleum — not containing any petroleum based substance
  • not-a-number — (mathematics)   (NaN) An IEEE floating point representation for the result of a numerical operation which cannot return a valid number value. A NaN can result from multiplying an infinity by a zero, or from subtracting one infinity from another [what else?]. NaN is encoded as a special bit pattern [what pattern?] which would otherwise represent a floating-point number. It is used to signal error returns where other mechanisms are not convenient, e.g. a hardware floating-point unit and to allow errors to propagate through a calculation. Similar bit patterns represent positive and negative overflow and underflow and the positive and negative infinities resulting from division by zero.
  • nourishments — Plural form of nourishment.
  • number plate — vehicle's registration panel
  • numerability — the fact of having the ability to be counted
  • numerologist — A practitioner of numerology.
  • nutmeg melon — netted melon.
  • nutmeg state — Connecticut (used as a nickname).
  • oamaru stone — a kind of limestone, of building quality, found at Oamaru on South Island, New Zealand
  • obmutescence — persistent silence
  • old mine cut — a brilliant cut, common in the 19th century, retaining a relatively high proportion of the original stone and having a large culet and small table compared to modern brilliants.
  • on the stump — If politicians are on the stump, they are campaigning for an election.
  • open-mouthed — having the mouth open.
  • opendocument — (file format, standard)   (ODF, ISO/IEC 26300, OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications) An XML file format for office documents, such as spreadsheets, charts, presentations, databases and word processing. OpenDocument was developed by the Open Office XML technical committee of the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) consortium. It is based on the XML format originally created and implemented by the OpenOffice.org office suite. OpenDocument is an open standard, i.e. freely available and implementable. Compare OOXML.
  • oto-manguean — a family of American Indian languages spoken in central and southern Mexico, including Mixtec, Zapotec, and Otomi.
  • out of tempo — not in tempo
  • out-marriage — a marriage to someone outside one's ethnic group
  • outcompeting — to strive to outdo another for acknowledgment, a prize, supremacy, profit, etc.; engage in a contest; vie: to compete in a race; to compete in business.
  • outmaneuvers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outmaneuver.
  • outmanoeuvre — British. outmaneuver.
  • outmodedness — The condition of being outmoded.
  • outnumbering — Present participle of outnumber.
  • outperformed — Simple past tense and past participle of outperform.
  • outperformer — One who outperforms.
  • outplacement — counseling and assistance in finding a new job, provided by a company for an employee who has been or is about to be dismissed.
  • overdocument — to document excessively
  • overmaturity — (of a tree or forest) the state of having ceased to grow or have commercial value
  • overmultiply — to increase too much or too often
  • paludamentum — a cloak worn by officials and military officers of ancient Rome, especially during wartime.
  • pen computer — a computer, as a personal digital assistant, having pattern-recognition software enabling it to read handwritten text or drawings input on the screen by means of a stylus.
  • perambulator — baby carriage.
  • pericementum — periodontal membrane.
  • perichaetium — a leafy cluster (bracts) around the base of the reproductive organs of some plants, predominantly mosses
  • periodontium — the bone, connective tissue, and gum surrounding and supporting a tooth.
  • periostracum — the external, chitinlike covering of the shell of certain mollusks that protects the limy portion from acids.
  • permaculture — a system of cultivation intended to maintain permanent agriculture or horticulture by relying on renewable resources and a self-sustaining ecosystem.
  • perpetualism — a belief in the permanence of a given thing; the belief that a given thing (e.g. the world, a political system) will last forever
  • pharmaceutic — pertaining to pharmacy or pharmacists.
  • phillumenist — a collector of matchbooks and matchboxes.
  • picture mold — a molding near a ceiling from which pictures can be suspended.
  • piet-my-vrou — a cuckoo, Notococcyx solitarius, having a red breast
  • plate armour — armour made of thin metal plates, which superseded mail during the 14th century
  • pneumaticity — the condition of being pneumatic
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