12-letter words containing um
- circumscript — Rare. limited or confined.
- 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.
- circumvolved — Simple past tense and past participle of circumvolve.
- cirrocumulus — a high cloud of ice crystals grouped into small separate globular masses, usually occurring above 6000 metres (20 000 feet)
- cladosporium — any of the species of fungi in the genus Cladosporium
- claim-jumper — a person who seizes another's claim of land, especially for mineral rights.
- clerodendrum — any of numerous tropical trees or shrubs of the genus Clerodendrum, having clusters of variously colored flowers.
- columbus day — Oct 12, a legal holiday in most states of the US: the date of Columbus' landing in the West Indies (Caribbean) in 1492
- column dress — a very straight, close-fitting dress.
- column shift — A column shift is a gearshift lever mounted on the steering column.
- columnarized — columnar (def 3).
- columniation — the arrangement of architectural columns
- condominiums — Plural form of condominium.
- consumerists — Plural form of consumerist.
- consumerized — to make (goods or a product) suitable or available for mass consumption: to consumerize computers by making them cheaper.
- consumership — the state of being a consumer
- consummately — to bring to a state of perfection; fulfill.
- consummating — Present participle of consummate.
- consummation — a consummating or being consummated; completion; fulfillment
- consummative — to bring to a state of perfection; fulfill.
- consummatory — to bring to a state of perfection; fulfill.
- consumptions — the act of consuming, as by use, decay, or destruction.
- consumptives — Plural form of consumptive.
- contumacious — stubbornly resistant to authority; wilfully obstinate
- contumelious — rude in a contemptuous way; insulting and humiliating
- cork cambium — a layer of meristematic cells in the cortex of the stems and roots of woody plants, the outside of which gives rise to cork cells and the inside to secondary cortical cells (phelloderm)
- costume ball — a fancy dress ball
- crassamentum — a blood clot
- craw-thumper — an ostentatiously pious person
- crematoriums — Plural form of crematorium.
- crumble away — disintegrate
- cum dividend — (of shares, etc) with the right to current dividend
- cumbersomely — In a cumbersome way.
- cumbrousness — The state or quality of being cumbrous.
- cumulatively — increasing or growing by accumulation or successive additions: the cumulative effect of one rejection after another.
- cumulocirrus — a cloud that shares charracteristics of cumulus and cirrus clouds
- cumulonimbus — Cumulonimbus is a type of cloud, similar to cumulus, that extends to a great height and is associated with thunderstorms.
- cuprammonium — an ion of copper oxide used (in solution) in the manufacture of rayon and other man-made fibres
- cusip number — A CUSIP number is a number that identifies an individual security like a stock or a bond.
- custos morum — a custodian or guardian of morals; censor.
- darmstadtium — a synthetic radioactive element produced in small quantities by cold fusion in a linear accelerator. Symbol: Ds; atomic no: 110
- decumulation — a decrease in amount or value
- dehumanising — Present participle of dehumanise.
- dehumanizing — denying or depriving of dignity
- dehumidified — Simple past tense and past participle of dehumidify.
- dehumidifier — A dehumidifier is a machine that is used to reduce the amount of moisture in the air.
- dehumidifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dehumidify.