15-letter words containing d, e, m, u, r, s
- admiralty house — the official residence of the Governor General of Australia, in Sydney
- adventuresomely — In an adventuresome manner.
- albemarle sound — an inlet of the Atlantic in NE North Carolina. Length: about 96 km (60 miles)
- amaryllidaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Amaryllidaceae, a family of widely cultivated flowering plants having bulbs and including the amaryllis, snowdrop, narcissus, and daffodil
- andromonoecious — (of a plant species) having hermaphrodite and male flowers on the same plant
- arrest judgment — to stay proceedings after a verdict, on the grounds of error or possible error
- bury st edmunds — a market town in E England, in Suffolk. Pop: 36 218 (2001)
- casters-up mode — [IBM, probably from slang belly up] Yet another synonym for "broken" or "down". Usually connotes a major failure. A system (hardware or software) which is "down" may be already being restarted before the failure is noticed, whereas one which is "casters up" is usually a good excuse to take the rest of the day off (as long as you're not responsible for fixing it).
- chinese mustard — brown mustard.
- citrus red mite — a large mite, Panonychus citri, that is an important pest of citrus.
- claims adjuster — A claims adjuster is someone who is employed by an insurance company to decide how much money a person making a claim should receive.
- consumer credit — Consumer credit is money that is lent to people by organizations such as banks, building societies, and shops so that they can buy things.
- consumer demand — a measure of consumers' desire for a product or service based on its availability
- contrast medium — a radiopaque substance, such as barium sulphate, used to increase the contrast of an image in radiography
- cut the mustard — to come up to expectations
- demisemiquavers — Plural form of demisemiquaver.
- deputy minister — (in Canada) the senior civil servant in a government department
- deuteranomalous — having deuteranomaly; relating to deuteranomaly
- deuteronomistic — one of the writers of material used in the early books of the Old Testament.
- discount market — a trading market in which notes, bills, and other negotiable instruments are discounted.
- do one's number — a numeral or group of numerals.
- 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/.
- dumpster diving — the practice of foraging in garbage that has been put out on the street in dumpsters, garbage cans, etc., for discarded items that may still be valuable, useful, or fixable.
- echinodermatous — belonging or pertaining to the echinoderms.
- edriophthalmous — (of certain crustaceans) having stalkless eyes
- entre-deux-mers — any wine produced in the area of the Gironde between the rivers Dordogne and Garonne in S France
- 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).
- ground meristem — an area of primary meristematic tissue, emerging from and immediately behind the apical meristem, that develops into the pith and the cortex.
- hughes syndrome — a condition of the autoimmune system caused by antibodies reacting against phospholipids, leading to thrombosis
- immunoadsorbent — immunosorbent.
- in the doldrums — miserable, depressed
- in your dreams! — You say `In your dreams!' when you think that what someone wants is never going to happen or be true.
- liberal judaism — Reform Judaism.
- lord of misrule — (in England) a person formerly chosen to direct the Christmas revels and sports.
- 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.
- make the rounds — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
- marburg disease — a viral disease producing a severe and often fatal illness with fever, rash, diarrhea, vomiting, and gastrointestinal bleeding, transmitted to humans through contact with infected green monkeys.
- mass-producible — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
- meadow mushroom — any of various fleshy fungi including the toadstools, puffballs, coral fungi, morels, etc.
- 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.
- mermaid's purse — the horny or leathery egg case of certain cartilaginous fishes, as skates.
- midsummer's day — Midsummer's Day or Midsummer Day is the 24th of June.
- mogi das cruzes — a city in SE Brazil, E of São Paulo.
- monounsaturated — of or noting a class of fats that lack a hydrogen bond at one point on the carbon chain and that are associated with a low cholesterol content of the blood.
- mouse droppings — 1. (graphics, operating system, jargon) Pixels (usually single) that are not properly restored when the mouse pointer moves away from a particular location on the screen, producing the appearance that the mouse pointer has left droppings behind. The major causes for this problem are MS-DOS programs that write to the screen memory corresponding to the mouse pointer's current location without hiding the mouse pointer first, and mouse drivers that do not quite support the graphics mode in use. 2. (web, jargon) The client address recorded in a web server's log whenever a client connects to a site. Users may be unaware that their activity is being logged in this way but the potential for misuse of the information is limited.
- muslim calendar — the lunar calendar used by Muslims and reckoned from a.d. 622: the calendar year consists of 354 days and contains 12 months: Moharram, Safar, Rabi I, Rabi II, Jumada I, Jumada II, Rajab, Shaban, Ramadan, Shawwal, Dhu ʾl-Qaʿda, and Dhu ʾl-hijjah. In leap years the month Dhu ʾl-hijjah contains one extra day.
- mustard plaster — a black mixture of mustard and rubber placed on a cloth and applied to the skin as a counterirritant.
- neurodermatitis — W Lichen simplex chronicus, a skin disorder characterized by chronic itching and scratching, resulting in thick, leathery, brownish skin.
- nil desperandum — never despair
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