12-letter words containing u, n, r, e, c, l
- council fire — a fire kept burning continually during a council of American Indians.
- counterblast — A counterblast is a strong angry reply to something that has been said, written, or done.
- counterbluff — a bluff made in opposition to another bluff
- counterclaim — a claim set up in opposition to another, esp by the defendant in a civil action against the plaintiff
- counterfoils — Plural form of counterfoil.
- counterlight — a light opposite something, such as a painting, that negatively affects the appearance of that object
- counterplead — to plead the opposite of
- counterpleas — Plural form of counterplea.
- counterplots — Plural form of counterplot.
- counterrally — an opposing rally
- counterreply — a reply made in response to a reply; rejoinder.
- counterspell — a spell or charm which acts against another spell, esp in fantasy or role-playing games
- counterstyle — an opposing style
- countervails — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of countervail.
- countervalue — An equivalent or equal, especially in military strategy.
- counterworld — an alternative world opposite to the virtual world
- country lane — a narrow country road, often bordered by hedges
- country life — life in the country
- country mile — a long way
- county clerk — a senior local government official
- crassulacean — as in crassulacean acid metabolism, a method of photosynthesis
- crenulations — Plural form of crenulation.
- croquet lawn — a lawn where croquet is played
- curelessness — The state or quality of being cureless.
- curmudgeonly — If you describe someone as curmudgeonly, you do not like them because they are mean or bad-tempered.
- 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
- cycle crunch — (jargon) A situation wherein the number of people trying to use a computer simultaneously has reached the point where no one can get enough cycles because they are spread too thin and the system has probably begun to thrash. This scenario is an inevitable result of Parkinson's Law applied to time-sharing. Usually the only solution is to buy more computer. Happily, this has rapidly become easier since the mid-1980s, so much so that the very term "cycle crunch" now has a faintly archaic flavour; most hackers now use workstations or personal computers as opposed to traditional time-sharing systems.
- declustering — Any technique that counteracts clustering (in any sense).
- decluttering — Present participle of declutter.
- deli counter — a display case in a delicatessen, or one in a supermarket that sells delicatessen
- denuclearize — to deprive (a country, state, etc) of nuclear weapons
- double crown — a size of printing paper, 20 × 30 inches (51 × 76 cm).
- ductile iron — any of various cast irons strengthened by having the graphite content in the form of nodules rather than flakes, and containing cerium or magnesium as well as other additives.
- edulcorating — Present participle of edulcorate.
- edulcoration — (rare) A sweetening.
- electro-funk — a type of electronic music, originating in the 1980s, characterized by the use of synthesizers with a heavy rhythm and punctuated bass, often influenced by the genres of funk and hip-hop
- electron gun — a heated cathode with an associated system of electrodes and coils for producing and focusing a beam of electrons, used esp in cathode-ray tubes
- electrotonus — the change in the state of irritability and conductivity of a nerve or muscle caused by the passage of an electric current
- elocutionary — Of or pertaining to elocution or to public speaking; rhetorical.
- elucubration — the practice of elucubrating
- enculturated — Simple past tense and past participle of enculturate.
- endovascular — Within a blood vessel.
- exclusionary — restrictive or elitist
- extranuclear — situated or occurring in part of a cell outside the nucleus
- exulceration — the process of ulceration
- 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.