14-letter words containing a, r, m, o, u
- start-up money — money that is spent on setting up a new business or other project
- stigmatiferous — (of a plant) having a stigma
- straw mushroom — a small brown mushroom, Volvariella volvacea, used in Asian cookery.
- stumble across — to strike the foot against something, as in walking or running, so as to stagger or fall; trip.
- sub-postmaster — (in Britain) a man who runs a sub-post office
- subatmospheric — (of a quantity) having a value lower than that of the atmosphere: subatmospheric temperatures.
- sugared almond — Sugared almonds are nuts which have been covered with a hard sweet coating.
- sunday morning — a poem (1923) by Wallace Stevens.
- superambitious — extremely ambitious, highly ambitious
- superimportant — extremely important
- superimposable — to impose, place, or set over, above, or on something else.
- supramolecular — having an organization more complex than that of a molecule.
- tailor's dummy — a mannequin used to help tailor or fit clothes
- telejournalism — the writing and broadcasting of journalism for television
- temporary duty — duty of limited duration performed with an organization other than the one to which a person is normally attached or assigned. Abbreviation: TDY.
- terminal bonus — a bonus paid on a life insurance policy when the holder reaches a certain age or dies
- terminus a quo — the end from which; beginning; starting point; earliest limiting point.
- tetrachotomous — divided into four parts
- thaumatography — a treatise or description of the wonders of the natural world
- thermoacoustic — pertaining to a method of cooling using air driven with acoustic power.
- thermoregulate — to maintain regular temperature, esp regular body temperature
- thesaurismosis — storage disease.
- thomas younger — Thomas Coleman ("Cole") 1844–1916, U.S. outlaw, associated with Jesse James.
- time simulator — (simulation) (Tsim) A stack-based simulation language. Contact: ZOLA Technologies.
- trachyspermous — having seeds with a rough coat.
- trade unionism — the system, methods, or practice of trade or labor unions.
- transpulmonary — of or relating to the lungs.
- traumatization — Pathology. to injure (tissues) by force or by thermal, chemical, etc., agents.
- traumatologist — a branch of surgery dealing with major wounds caused by accidents or violence.
- trombiculiasis — the condition of being infested with chiggers.
- tunny emulator — (hardware, cryptography) A special-purpose computer designed at Bletchley Park (UK) based upon the reverse engineering of the Lorenz Cypher. The Lorenz Cypher was used by the German army to encrypt high command orders for transmission via teleprinter (the Enigma was a field-use cypher). Once the key to a message was discovered (by the computer Colossus) the Tunny machine would be set to decrypt the message. The process took about four days from intercept to printout. The original Tunny machine was built about 1943 and scrapped after the war. In 2011 a working model was re-built at Bletchley Park where it is on display.
- turbomachinery — machinery consisting of, incorporating, or constituting a turbine
- turn on a dime — change direction quickly
- ultracompetent — extremely competent
- ultraglamorous — extremely glamorous
- ultramicrotome — a microtome capable of producing very fine slices of tissue or cellular specimens for electron microscopic examination.
- ultramicrotomy — the practice of using an ultramicrotome
- ultramontanism — the policy of the party in the Roman Catholic Church that favors increasing and enhancing the power and authority of the pope.
- umbilical cord — Anatomy. a cord or funicle connecting the embryo or fetus with the placenta of the mother and transporting nourishment from the mother and wastes from the fetus.
- unarmed combat — the action of fighting without weapons
- uncontemporary — outmoded
- undemonstrable — not able to be made evident
- uniformitarian — supporting, conforming to, or derived from a theory or doctrine about uniformity, especially on the subject of geology.
- uniformization — to bring into uniformity.
- union of burma — former official name of Burma.
- unmetaphorical — not used, viewed, or intended as a metaphor
- unparsimonious — characterized by or showing parsimony; frugal or stingy.
- unprogrammable — not able to be programmed
- unromantically — in an unromantic manner
- unromanticized — not romantic