14-letter words containing a, d, s, u, m
- jerusalem date — butterfly flower.
- judgementalism — Alternative form of judgmentalism.
- keep sb amused — If you keep someone amused, you find things to do which stop them getting bored.
- last judgement — In the Christian religion, the Last Judgement is the last day of the world when God will judge everyone who has died and decide whether they will go to Heaven or Hell.
- liquid compass — wet compass.
- liquid measure — the system of units of capacity ordinarily used in measuring liquid commodities, as milk or oil. English system: 4 gills = 1 pint; 2 pints = 1 quart; 4 quarts = 1 gallon. Metric system: 1000 milliliters = 1 liter; 1000 liters = 1 kiloliter (= 1 cubic meter).
- lymphedematous — Relating to lymphedema.
- macrodactylous — related to or having macrodactyly
- madison avenue — a street in New York City that is a center of the advertising and public relations industries and that has become a symbol of their attitudes, methods, and practices.
- magdeburg laws — the local laws of the city of Magdeburg, which were adopted by many European cities in the middle ages
- maladjustments — Plural form of maladjustment.
- malodorousness — The state or condition of being malodorous.
- marmalade bush — a shrub, Streptosolen jamesonii, of the nightshade family, native to South America, bearing showy trumpet-shaped orange flowers, grown as an ornamental or houseplant.
- master builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
- mature student — sb enrolled in study after usual age
- measure swords — to duel with swords
- mendaciousness — telling lies, especially habitually; dishonest; lying; untruthful: a mendacious person.
- misadventurous — (obsolete) unfortunate.
- misunderstands — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misunderstand.
- modus operandi — mode of operating or working.
- musical comedy — musical (def 5).
- muslin delaine — mousseline de laine.
- mustard family — the plant family Cruciferae (or Brassicaceae), characterized by herbaceous plants having alternate leaves, acrid or pungent juice, clusters of four-petaled flowers, and fruit in the form of a two-parted capsule, and including broccoli, cabbage, candytuft, cauliflower, cress, mustard, radish, sweet alyssum, turnip, and wallflower.
- mustard powder — Mustard powder is a yellow powder. You add hot water to it in order to make mustard.
- of your dreams — If you describe someone or something as the person or thing of your dreams, you mean that you consider them to be ideal or perfect.
- old-man cactus — a Mexican cactus, Cephalocereus senilis, having a columnar body from 30 to 40 feet (9 to 12 meters) high with thatchlike, long, white hairs on the top, and red flowers with white centers.
- osteodermatous — characterized by osteodermal skin
- overadjustment — an adjustment that is too great
- pachydermatous — of, relating to, or characteristic of pachyderms.
- pneumodynamics — Physics. pneumatics.
- podophthalmous — relating to a crustacean
- pseudo-medical — of or relating to the science or practice of medicine: medical history; medical treatment.
- pseudomembrane — a tough outer layer found on the surface of the mucous membrane or skin
- pumped storage — a system for generating hydroelectric power for peak periods by pumping water from a lower to a higher reservoir during low-demand periods and then releasing it during peak periods.
- quadrumvirates — Plural form of quadrumvirate.
- quadrupedalism — The condition of being a quadruped.
- quasi-academic — of or relating to a college, academy, school, or other educational institution, especially one for higher education: academic requirements.
- quasi-medieval — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or in the style of the Middle Ages: medieval architecture. Compare Middle Ages.
- radio spectrum — the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that includes radio waves.
- radiostrontium — strontium 90.
- radium sulfate — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous, radioactive solid, RaSO 4 , used chiefly in radiotherapy.
- random numbers — a number chosen by a random sampling, as from a table (random number table) or generated by a computer.
- reform judaism — Judaism as observed by Reform Jews.
- saddam hussein — Also, Hosein, Husain. (al-Husayn) a.d. 629?–680, Arabian caliph, the son of Ali and Fatima and the brother of Hasan.
- scandium oxide — a white infusible powder, Sc 2 O 3 , soluble in acids.
- scapular medal — a medal that has been blessed and may be substituted for a scapular (sense 3)
- semi-automated — partially automated.
- sesquipedalism — given to using long words.
- slide mountain — a mountain in SE New York: highest peak of the Catskill Mountains. 4204 feet (1280 meters).
- social dumping — the practice of allowing employers to lower wages and reduce employees' benefits in order to attract and retain employment and investment