12-letter words containing t, u, m, e
- blabbermouth — a person who talks too much or indiscreetly
- blue helmets — armed troops under the sponsorship of the United Nations, used for peacekeeping
- blue melilot — a European plant, Trigonella caerulea, of the legume family, having long-stalked clusters of blue and white flowers.
- booster pump — A booster pump is a pump which is used where pressure is low and needs to be increased.
- bottom house — the open space beneath a house built upon high pillars
- breastsummer — a girder extending across a large opening in a building to support the wall above, used primarily over shop-fronts
- bristlemouth — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Gonostomatidae, having numerous sharp, slender teeth covering the jaws.
- buddy system — (in swimming and scuba diving) the practice of pairing swimmers, each being responsible for the other's safety.
- buy the farm — a tract of land, usually with a house, barn, silo, etc., on which crops and often livestock are raised for livelihood.
- calceamentum — (in ancient Rome) a sandal, boot, shoe, or other type of footwear
- calumet city — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- camper truck — a pickup truck having a camper mounted on the truck body.
- catechumenal — Ecclesiastical. a person under instruction in the rudiments of Christianity, as in the early church; a neophyte.
- caustic lime — lime1 (def 1).
- cementitious — of, relating to, or characteristic of cement
- centumvirate — the office of the centumviri
- cerium metal — any of a subgroup of rare-earth metals, of which the terbium and yttrium metals comprise the other two subgroups.
- chorusmaster — the conductor of a choir
- ciment fondu — a type of quick-hardening refractory cement having a high alumina content
- cinematheque — a small intimate cinema
- circumcenter — the center of a circumscribed circle; that point where any two perpendicular bisectors of the sides of a polygon inscribed in the circle intersect.
- circumcentre — the centre of a circumscribed circle
- circumfluent — flowing around; surrounding; encompassing
- circumgyrate — to cause (something) to move in a circular motion
- circumjacent — surrounding; lying around
- circumlocute — to speak in a circuitous way
- circumnutate — to rotate slightly on a central axis
- circumrotate — to turn like a wheel; rotate
- circumstance — The circumstances of a particular situation are the conditions which affect what happens.
- circumvented — to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
- circumventor — to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
- circumvolute — To roll, curl or twist around.
- claude monet — Claude [klawd;; French klohd] /klɔd;; French kloʊd/ (Show IPA), 1840–1926, French painter.
- closemouthed — not talking much; telling little; taciturn
- cluster bomb — A cluster bomb is a type of bomb which is dropped from an aircraft. It contains a large number of smaller bombs that spread out before they hit the ground.
- combustibles — Plural form of combustible.
- come out for — to announce one's approval of; endorse
- come through — To come through a dangerous or difficult situation means to survive it and recover from it.
- come unstuck — If something comes unstuck, it becomes separated from the thing that it was attached to.
- come up with — If you come up with a plan or idea, you think of it and suggest it.
- commensurate — If the level of one thing is commensurate with another, the first level is in proportion to the second.
- communicated — to impart knowledge of; make known: to communicate information; to communicate one's happiness.
- communicatee — a person to whom a communicator communicates
- communicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of communicate.
- commuter tax — an income tax imposed by a locality on those who work within its boundaries but reside elsewhere.
- compte rendu — a short review or notice, esp of a book
- compulsative — compulsory
- computer age — modern society regarded as the period when the widespread use of computers has fundamentally changed people's lives
- computer bus — bus
- computer law — a body of law arising out of the special conditions relating to the use of computers, as in computer crime or software copyright.