15-letter words containing a, r, m, o, u
- 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.
- instrumentation — the arranging of music for instruments, especially for an orchestra.
- intermodulation — the production in an electrical device of frequencies that are the sums or differences of frequencies of different inputs or of their harmonics.
- jerusalem cross — a cross whose four arms are each capped with a crossbar and often with a small Greek cross centered in each quadrant.
- jerusalem thorn — See under Christ's-thorn.
- juxtaglomerular — (anatomy) Near, or adjoining a renal glomerulus.
- kissing gourami — a whitish labyrinth fish, Helostoma temmincki, found in southeastern Asia, noted for the habit of pressing its fleshy, protrusible lips against those of another: often kept in aquariums.
- laptop computer — portable computer
- largemouth bass — a North American freshwater game fish, Micropterus salmoides, having an upper jaw extending behind the eye and a broad, dark, irregular stripe along each side of the body. Compare smallmouth bass.
- lavatory humour — humour characterized by excessive mention of lavatories and the excretory functions; vulgar or scatological humour
- leaf primordium — a group of cells that will develop into a leaf, seen as small bulges just below the shoot apex.
- leptosporangium — (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
- linear momentum — force or speed of movement; impetus, as of a physical object or course of events: The car gained momentum going downhill. Her career lost momentum after two unsuccessful films.
- lobar pneumonia — pneumonia (def 2).
- lymphogranuloma — any of certain diseases characterized by granulomatous lesions of lymph nodes.
- macro-structure — the gross structure of a metal, as made visible to the naked eye by deep etching.
- macroprudential — Of or pertaining to systemic prudence, especially to the strengths and vulnerabilities of financial systems.
- macrosporangium — megasporangium.
- macrostructural — relating to or resembling a macrostructure
- macrostructures — Plural form of macrostructure.
- made to measure — (of a garment, shoes, etc.) made in accordance with a specific individual's measurements.
- made-to-measure — (of a garment, shoes, etc.) made in accordance with a specific individual's measurements.
- magic mushrooms — a mushroom, Psilocybe mexicana, of Mexico and the southwestern U.S., containing the hallucinogen psilocybin.
- magnetic course — a course whose bearing is given relative to the magnetic meridian of the area.
- mahrisch-ostrau — German name of Moravská Ostrava.
- make the rounds — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
- make-up remover — a substance that you use to remove make-up from your face
- maldistribution — bad or unsatisfactory distribution, as of wealth, among a population or members of a group.
- male prostitute — man who has sex for money
- man of the hour — a man who is honored by a group.
- manoeuvrability — The quality of being manoeuvrable.
- manukau harbour — an inlet of the Tasman Sea near Auckland in New Zealand on NW North Island
- marathon runner — person who runs in a marathon race
- marcus antonius — Mark (Marcus Antonius) 83?–30 b.c, Roman general: friend of Caesar; member of the second triumvirate and rival of Octavian.
- margaritiferous — yielding or wearing pearls
- marine surveyor — a person who carries out surveys of ships to determine seaworthiness, etc
- marlborough leg — a tapered leg having a square section.
- marsupial mouse — any of various mouse-sized to rat-sized marsupials of the family Dasyuridae, occurring in Australia, New Guinea, and Tasmania: some species are rare or endangered.
- mass production — the production or manufacture of goods in large quantities, especially by machinery.
- mass-producible — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
- massage parlour — A massage parlour is a place where people go and pay for a massage. Some places that are called massage parlours are in fact places where people pay to have sex.
- maxilloturbinal — (anatomy) Pertaining to the maxillary and turbinal regions of the skull.
- meadow mushroom — any of various fleshy fungi including the toadstools, puffballs, coral fungi, morels, etc.
- measurement ton — a unit of weight, equivalent to 2000 pounds (0.907 metric ton) avoirdupois (short ton) in the U.S. and 2240 pounds (1.016 metric tons) avoirdupois (long ton) in Great Britain.
- measuring spoon — a spoon for measuring amounts, as in cooking, usually part of a set of spoons of different sizes.
- medical tourism — tourist travel for the purpose of receiving medical treatment or improving health or fitness: The spiraling cost of healthcare has contributed to the growth of medical tourism. Also called health tourism.