12-letter words containing ure
- eure-et-loir — a department of N central France, in Centre region. Capital: Chartres. Pop: 412 094 (2003 est). Area: 5940 sq km (2317 sq miles)
- expenditures — Plural form of expenditure.
- favouredness — the quality of or extent to which something is favoured
- feature film — full-length movie
- featurectomy — /fee"ch*r-ek"t*-mee/ The act of removing a feature from a program. Featurectomies come in two flavours, the "righteous" and the "reluctant". Righteous featurectomies are performed because the remover believes the program would be more elegant without the feature, or there is already an equivalent and better way to achieve the same end. (Doing so is not quite the same thing as removing a misfeature.) Reluctant featurectomies are performed to satisfy some external constraint such as code size or execution speed.
- figure eight — figure eight.
- figure skate — a shoe skate used in figure skating, especially one having a blade shorter than that of a racing skate, usually not extending beyond the toe or heel, and with notches or sawteeth on the curved forward edge.
- figure-skate — to take part in figure skating
- figured bass — a bass part in which the notes have numbers under them indicating the chords to be played.
- fish culture — the artificial propagation and breeding of fish.
- fixture list — a list of the games that a team is scheduled to play
- floriculture — the cultivation of flowers or flowering plants, especially for ornamental purposes.
- foreclosures — Plural form of foreclosure.
- forepleasure — the aggregate of pleasurable sensations that lead to a heightened physical or emotional response, as of those aroused in sexual intercourse that lead to an orgasm.
- full denture — an artificial replacement of one or several of the teeth (partial denture) or all of the teeth (full denture) of either or both jaws; dental prosthesis.
- full-figured — (of a woman) having an amply proportioned or heavy body.
- future shock — physical and psychological disturbance caused by a person's inability to cope with very rapid social and technological change.
- future tense — grammar: will do, etc.
- future value — the value that a sum of money invested at compound interest will have after a specified period
- future-proof — (of a system, computer, program, etc) guaranteed not to be superseded by future versions, developments, etc
- geopressured — subject to geostatic pressure.
- good-natured — having or showing a pleasant, kindly disposition; amiable: a warm, good-natured person.
- great laurel — a tall shrub, Rhododendron maximum, of eastern North America, having rose-pink flowers.
- green manure — a crop of growing plants, as clover and other nitrogen-fixing plants, plowed under to enrich the soil.
- half measure — If someone refers to policies or actions as half measures, they are critical of them because they think that they are not forceful enough and are therefore of little value.
- heliogravure — photoengraving.
- holy picture — a picture of a person or thing that is of religious importance
- horse manure — horse's excrement
- horticulture — the cultivation of a garden, orchard, or nursery; the cultivation of flowers, fruits, vegetables, or ornamental plants.
- human nature — the psychological and social qualities that characterize humankind, especially in contrast with other living things.
- hydroculture — A type of hydroponics in which plants are grown in a medium that allows the distribution of water and nutrients through capillary action.
- ill-favoured — unpleasant in appearance; homely or ugly.
- illiterature — (archaic) Lack of learning; illiteracy.
- immatureness — not mature, ripe, developed, perfected, etc.
- implicatures — Plural form of implicature.
- in a measure — to an extent
- in miniature — on a smaller scale
- insecureness — Insecurity.
- interculture — the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc.
- intermixture — a mass of ingredients mixed together.
- intertexture — the act of interweaving or the condition of being interwoven.
- investitures — Plural form of investiture.
- king vulture — a large, black-and-white vulture, Sarcorhamphus papa, of Central and South America, having colorful wattles and wartlike protuberances on its head and neck.
- land measure — any system of measurement for measuring land.
- lane closure — the closing of a lane on a motorway
- laureateship — a person who has been honored for achieving distinction in a particular field or with a particular award: a Nobel laureate.
- lean mixture — A lean mixture is a fuel/air mixture containing a relatively low proportion of fuel.
- lecture hall — conference room
- lecture room — conference hall
- lectureships — Plural form of lectureship.