14-letter words containing a, l, u, m, i
- circumcolumnar — surrounding a column.
- circumgalactic — (astronomy) Surrounding a galaxy.
- circumlittoral — adjoining the shore
- circumstantial — Circumstantial evidence is evidence that makes it seem likely that something happened, but does not prove it.
- circumvallated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumvallate.
- circumventable — Capable of being circumvented.
- clavicytherium — a kind of harpsichord
- clouded magpie — a geometrid moth, Abraxas sylvata, that is paler than the magpie moth
- colloquialisms — Plural form of colloquialism.
- columbia river — a river in SW Canada and the NW United States, flowing S and W from SE British Columbia through Washington along the boundary between Washington and Oregon and into the Pacific. 1214 miles (1955 km) long.
- comma bacillus — a comma-shaped bacterium, Vibrio comma, that causes cholera in man: family Spirillaceae
- communion rail — (in a Christian church) the rail in front of the altar at which people kneel when taking communion
- computerizable — able to be computerized
- contractualism — any of various theories that justify moral principles and political choices because they depend on a social contract involving certain ideal conditions, as lack of ignorance or uncertainty.
- contumaciously — stubbornly perverse or rebellious; willfully and obstinately disobedient.
- corpuscularism — (philosophy) Ideology that discusses reality and change in terms of particles (corpuscles) and their motion.
- cosmeceuticals — Plural form of cosmeceutical.
- counterclaimed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterclaim.
- court martials — military courts that try people subject to military law
- criminal court — A criminal court is a law court that deals with criminal offences.
- cruciverbalism — the compilation of crosswords
- cumulativeness — The state or quality of being cumulative.
- denumerability — the quality of being countable
- diazonium salt — any of a class of compounds with the general formula ArN:N–M+, where Ar is an aryl group and M is a metal atom; made by the action of nitrous acid on aromatic amines and used in dyeing
- disciplinarium — a scourge for flogging penitents
- discombobulate — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
- dissimulations — Plural form of dissimulation.
- diurnal motion — the apparent daily motion, caused by the earth's rotation, of celestial bodies across the sky.
- documentalists — Plural form of documentalist.
- double marking — a method of assessment in which two individuals independently mark a test or evaluate a performance
- duchamp-villon — Raymond [re-mawn] /rɛˈmɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1876–1918, French sculptor (brother of Jacques Villon and Marcel Duchamp).
- dummy variable — a variable appearing in a mathematical expression that can be replaced by any arbitrary variable, not occurring in the expression, without affecting the value of the whole
- eat humble pie — humility forced upon someone, often under embarrassing conditions; humiliation.
- eleutheromania — A great desire for or obsession with freedom.
- elevator music — recorded popular music played in the background in public places such as elevators, variously regarded as being bland, monotonous, etc.
- emulsification — The process by which an emulsion is formed.
- estivoautumnal — (mainly US) Variant spelling of 'aestivoautumnal'.
- euclidean norm — (mathematics) The most common norm, calculated by summing the squares of all coordinates and taking the square root. This is the essence of Pythagoras's theorem. In the infinite-dimensional case, the sum is infinite or is replaced with an integral when the number of dimensions is uncountable.
- family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
- family support — a means-tested allowance for families in need
- final judgment — judgment (def 8).
- fluid dynamics — the branch of fluid mechanics dealing with the properties of fluids in motion.
- fluorochemical — a chemical compound containing fluorine.
- formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
- fundamentalism — (sometimes initial capital letter) a religious movement characterized by a strict belief in the literal interpretation of religious texts, especially within American Protestantism and Islam.
- fundamentalist — an adherent of fundamentalism, a religious movement characterized by a strict belief in the literal interpretation of religious texts: radical fundamentalists.
- fundamentality — serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying: fundamental principles; the fundamental structure.
- gallamine blue — a type of mordant dye
- gambling house — a building for gambling, especially for a large number of betting games.
- gamma globulin — a protein fraction of blood plasma that responds to stimulation of antigens, as bacteria or viruses, by forming antibodies: administered therapeutically in the treatment of some viral diseases.