15-letter words containing a, m, u, s
- gesamtkunstwerk — total art work; an artistic creation, as the music dramas of Richard Wagner, that synthesizes the elements of music, drama, spectacle, dance, etc.
- gesta romanorum — a popular collection of tales in Latin with moral applications, compiled in the late 13th century as a manual for preachers
- gluteus maximus — the broad, thick, outermost muscle of the buttocks, involved in the rotation and extension of the thigh.
- go up in flames — be burned
- gram's solution — (sometimes lowercase) a solution of iodine, potassium iodide, and water, used in staining bacteria.
- green mountains — a mountain range in E North America, extending from Canada through Vermont into W Massachusetts: part of the Appalachian system. Highest peak: Mount Mansfield, 1338 m (4393 ft)
- guidance system — The guidance system of a missile or rocket is the device which controls its course.
- guild socialism — a form of socialism developed in England in the 20th century, emphasizing decentralization of industry and services with control to be vested in autonomous guilds of workers.
- hamamelidaceous — belonging to the Hamamelidaceae, the witch hazel family of plants.
- heterosexualism — Discrimination of non-heterosexual people on the basis of their sexual orientation.
- hip measurement — a measurement around the hips at the level of the buttocks used in clothing and assessing general health
- homochlamydeous — (of a plant) having a perianth in which the sepals and petals are fused together and indistinguishable
- homosexualities — Plural form of homosexuality.
- human relations — the study of group behavior for the purpose of improving interpersonal relationships, as among employees.
- human resources — (used with a plural verb) people, especially the personnel employed by a given company, institution, or the like.
- humanitarianism — humanitarian principles or practices.
- humanitarianist — humanitarian principles or practices.
- humidifications — Plural form of humidification.
- hump one's swag — (of a tramp) to carry one's belongings from place to place on one's back
- humpback salmon — a pink salmon inhabiting North Pacific waters: so-called because of the hump that appears behind the head of the male when it is ready for spawning.
- hypoinsulinemia — (medicine) An abnormally low level of insulin in the blood.
- hypopituitarism — abnormally diminished activity of the pituitary gland, especially of the anterior lobe.
- ibero-maurusian — of or relating to an Epipaleolithic culture of northwestern Africa that preceded the Capsian culture and was once erroneously thought to have originated in southwestern Europe; characterized by the use of backed bladelets, occupation of the maritime plain, and the hunting of the Barbary sheep.
- image-conscious — concerned about the way one comes across to other people and the impression one creates
- immeasurability — Immeasurableness.
- immensurability — The quality of being immensurable.
- immunoadsorbent — immunosorbent.
- immunoassayable — Suitable for immunoassay.
- immunodiagnosis — serodiagnosis.
- immunoreactions — Plural form of immunoreaction.
- immunostimulant — (immunology, pharmacology) Any substance that stimulates an immune response.
- imperial bushel — a unit of dry measure containing 4 pecks, equivalent in the U.S. (and formerly in England) to 2150.42 cubic inches or 35.24 liters (Winchester bushel) and in Great Britain to 2219.36 cubic inches or 36.38 liters (Imperial bushel) Abbreviation: bu., bush.
- implausibleness — The quality of being implausible.
- importunateness — Quality of being importunate.
- in some measure — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
- in your dreams! — You say `In your dreams!' when you think that what someone wants is never going to happen or be true.
- incommensurable — not commensurable; having no common basis, measure, or standard of comparison.
- incommensurably — In an incommensurable manner; immeasurably.
- instrumentalism — the variety of pragmatism developed by John Dewey, maintaining that the truth of an idea is determined by its success in the active solution of a problem and that the value of ideas is determined by their function in human experience.
- instrumentalist — a person who plays a musical instrument.
- instrumentality — the quality or state of being instrumental.
- instrumentation — the arranging of music for instruments, especially for an orchestra.
- insurance claim — request for insurance to be paid
- insurance stamp — an insurance contribution
- intellectualism — devotion to intellectual pursuits.
- intramuscularly — In an intramuscular manner; within a muscle.
- isoimmunization — the development of isoantibodies within an individual in order to protect against antigens derived from a different member of the same species
- janissary music — music characteristic of or imitative of that played by a Turkish military band, typically employing cymbals, triangles, bass drum, and Turkish crescents.
- jerusalem bible — a Roman Catholic version of the Bible published in 1966, translated from the French La Bible de Jérusalem, produced by Dominican scholars in Jerusalem (1956)
- jerusalem cross — a cross whose four arms are each capped with a crossbar and often with a small Greek cross centered in each quadrant.