12-letter words that end in re
- conidiospore — a conidium
- constructure — a construction
- corner store — A corner store is the same as a corner shop.
- council fire — a fire kept burning continually during a council of American Indians.
- craft centre — a large shop that sells craftwork
- credit score — A borrower's credit score is a number calculated by a credit bureau to express how likely they are to be able to pay back their loans.
- crop failure — a failure of crops to yield sufficient food, etc, to maintain a community or to provide a surplus to sell
- csk software — (company) An international software company formed by the merger of Quay Financial Software and Micrognosis, and fully owned by CSK Corporation, Japan. CSK Software is based in Frankfurt/Main (Germany) with offices in London (UK), Zurich (Switzerland), Madrid (Spain), and Singapore. Products segments are RDD: Real-time data delivery, main product is Slingshot for delivering real-time data over the Internet (real push technology). ETS: Electronic Trading Systems, price calculation and automatic trading (with connections to XONTRO and XETRA). EAI: Enterprise Application Integration, main product is XGen, a universal message converter with GUI and connections also to SWIFT. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Address: CSK Software AG, Opernplatz 2, D-60313 Frankfurt, Germany. Tel: +49 (69) 509 520. Fax: +49 (69) 5095 2333.
- cut a figure — to attract attention
- cyberculture — a unique set of habits, values, and other elements of culture that have evolved from the use of computers and the Internet.
- data capture — any process for converting information into a form that can be handled by a computer
- denbighshire — a county of N Wales: split between Clwyd and Gwynedd in 1974; reinstated with different boundaries in 1996: borders the Irish Sea, with the Cambrian Mountains in the south: chiefly agricultural. Administrative centre: Ruthin. Pop: 94 900 (2003 est). Area: 844 sq km (327 sq miles)
- disadventure — misfortune; bad luck
- discomfiture — Archaic. defeat in battle; rout.
- discomposure — the state of being discomposed; disorder; agitation; perturbation.
- discoverture — the state of being discovert; freedom from coverture.
- donationware — (Internet) A variant of freeware that offers an option to its user to donate money to the program's author.
- dry-bone ore — a porous variety of smithsonite found near the surface of the earth.
- duty of care — the legal obligation to safeguard others from harm while they are in your care, using your services, or exposed to your activities
- fencing wire — a heavy-gauge galvanized wire used for farm fences
- ferrite core — a ferrite magnetic core used in a core memory.
- field centre — a research centre equipped for field studies, usually located in or near an area of scientific interest
- filthy lucre — money: to lose one's health for the sake of filthy lucre.
- first empire — the empire (1804–14) established in France by Napoleon Bonaparte.
- fish culture — the artificial propagation and breeding of fish.
- floriculture — the cultivation of flowers or flowering plants, especially for ornamental purposes.
- for evermore — forever; always
- 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.
- fox software — (company) Developers of FoxBASE+ and FoxPRO. Fox Software merged with Microsoft around 1992. Addresss: Perrysburg, OH, USA.
- french shore — either of two stretches of coastline inhabited mainly by Francophone Canadians: the W coast of Newfoundland and the SW coast of Nova Scotia between Yarmouth and Digby.
- 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.
- funeral pyre — bonfire for cremation
- galactophore — a galactophorous duct.
- gallery wire — perforated wire or metal stripping used to support or enhance a stone mounted in a ring.
- gang warfare — violent fighting or conflict between street gangs
- germ warfare — biological warfare.
- get anywhere — to be successful
- golden share — a share in a company that controls at least 51% of the voting rights, esp one retained by the UK government in some privatization issues
- grande-terre — two islands (Basse-Terre and Grande-Terre) separated by a narrow channel in the Leeward Islands of the West Indies: together with five dependencies they form an overseas department of France. 687 sq. mi. (1179 sq. km). Capital: Basse-Terre.
- green manure — a crop of growing plants, as clover and other nitrogen-fixing plants, plowed under to enrich the soil.
- gustave dore — (Paul) Gustave [pawl gy-stav] /pɔl güˈstav/ (Show IPA), 1832?–83, French painter, illustrator, and sculptor.
- 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.
- health scare — a state of alarm caused by a revelation concerning public heath
- heliogravure — photoengraving.
- hereinbefore — before in this document, statement, etc.
- heterosphere — The upper part of the atmosphere, above about sixty miles, in which there is great variation in its composition.
- 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.
- hostile fire — an unintentional fire, from which any resulting loss can be claimed as an insurance liability (opposed to friendly fire).