15-letter words containing a, s, u, m, e, r
- countermeasures — Plural form of countermeasure.
- cucumber mosaic — a viral disease of cucumbers and many other plants, characterized by a mosaic pattern and distortion of leaves and fruits.
- customer appeal — attractiveness to customers
- customer-facing — interacting or communicating directly with customers
- cut the mustard — to come up to expectations
- cytomegalovirus — a virus of the herpes virus family that may cause serious disease in patients whose immune systems are compromised
- demisemiquavers — Plural form of demisemiquaver.
- deuteranomalous — having deuteranomaly; relating to deuteranomaly
- discount market — a trading market in which notes, bills, and other negotiable instruments are discounted.
- domain squatter — (web) An unscrupulous person who registers a domain name in the hope of selling it to the rightful, expected owner at a profit. E.g. http://foldoc.com/.
- eastern rumelia — an autonomous province in the Balkan peninsula, part of the Ottoman Empire, ceded in 1885 to Bulgaria
- echinodermatous — belonging or pertaining to the echinoderms.
- economy measure — any method of reducing expenditure and hence saving money
- edriophthalmous — (of certain crustaceans) having stalkless eyes
- enantiomorphous — Of or pertaining to enantiomorphs or enantiomorphism; enantiomorphic.
- equalitarianism — Egalitarianism.
- female suffrage — woman suffrage.
- flavoursomeness — Alt form flavorsomeness.
- fluorochemicals — Plural form of fluorochemical.
- formation rules — the set of rules that specify the syntax of a formal system; the algorithm that generates the well-formed formulae
- freshwater drum — an edible drum, Aplodinotus grunniens, of the fresh waters of North and Central America, sometimes reaching a weight of 60 pounds (27 kg).
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- immeasurability — Immeasurableness.
- immensurability — The quality of being immensurable.
- immunoadsorbent — immunosorbent.
- immunoreactions — Plural form of immunoreaction.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- jerusalem thorn — See under Christ's-thorn.
- kamensk-uralski — a city in the W Russian Federation in Asia, near the Ural Mountains.
- lamb's-quarters — the pigweed, Chenopodium album.