12-letter words containing t, u, r, n, e
- country-bred — brought up in the country
- countrywomen — Plural form of countrywoman.
- county clerk — a senior local government official
- court tennis — a variety of tennis played indoors on a specially constructed court having high cement walls off which the ball may be played, points being made chiefly by stroking the ball into any of three openings in the walls of the court. Compare penthouse (def 7), tambour (def 7), winning opening.
- 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)
- credit union — A credit union is a financial institution that offers its members low-interest loans.
- crenulations — Plural form of crenulation.
- croquet lawn — a lawn where croquet is played
- crosscurrent — a current in a river or sea flowing across another current
- crown cutter — a hollow, thin-walled cylinder having teeth formed radially on the end and used for cutting round holes out of thin, flat stock.
- cuneiformist — a person who studies or deciphers cuneiform writing.
- current cost — The current cost of assets is their current value, or what it would cost to replace them at this time.
- curtailments — Plural form of curtailment.
- curtain line — the last line of a scene, act, etc., as in a play; tag line.
- curtain pole — a pole from which a curtain is hung in front of a window, door, etc
- curtain time — the time at which a play or other performance is scheduled to begin.
- dame fortune — the personification of fortune as a woman
- dark current — the residual current produced by a photoelectric device when not illuminated
- daughterling — a small daughter
- david turner — (person) Professor David A Turner. One of the pioneers of functional languages. He designed several languages, including, SASL (1976), KRC (1981), and Miranda, many of which were implemented using combinators and the S-K reduction machine which he defined. He coined the name "ZF expression" for the list comprehension. He worked at UKC and set up a company, Research Software Limited to market Miranda.
- declustering — Any technique that counteracts clustering (in any sense).
- decluttering — Present participle of declutter.
- deconstructs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deconstruct.
- decrustation — the act of removing a crust
- defraudation — (obsolete) The act of defrauding; a taking by fraud.
- deinotherium — any member of the genus Deinotherium, consisting of mammals resembling elephants that existed during the Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene epochs
- deli counter — a display case in a delicatessen, or one in a supermarket that sells delicatessen
- denaturalize — to deprive of nationality
- denaturation — to deprive (something) of its natural character, properties, etc.
- dental nurse — a dentist's assistant, esp one who passes instruments, mixes fillings, etc
- denunciatory — characterized by or given to denunciation.
- deregulating — Present participle of deregulate.
- deregulation — Deregulation is the removal of controls and restrictions in a particular area of business or trade.
- derived unit — a unit of measurement obtained by multiplication or division of the base units of a system without the introduction of numerical factors
- desaturation — the addition of white light to a pure colour to produce a paler less saturated colour
- dessert menu — In a restaurant or café, the dessert menu is a list of the desserts that are available.
- deuteranopia — a form of colour blindness in which there is a tendency to confuse blues and greens, and greens and reds, and in which sensitivity to green is reduced
- deuteronomic — of, relating to, or resembling Deuteronomy, especially the laws contained in that book.
- dextrousness — Alternative form of dexterousness.
- direct input — a device, such as a keyboard, used to insert data directly into a computerized system
- disadventure — misfortune; bad luck
- disbursement — the act or an instance of disbursing.
- disburthened — Simple past tense and past participle of disburthen.
- disgruntedly — In a disgruntled manner.
- disjunctures — Plural form of disjuncture.
- distress gun — a gun fired at one-minute intervals as a signal of distress.
- disturbances — Plural form of disturbance.
- double entry — a method in which each transaction is entered twice in the ledger, once to the debit of one account, and once to the credit of another.
- downregulate — To decrease the number of cell receptors by using downregulation.