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14-letter words containing e, m, p, u

  • drop-down menu — pull-down menu
  • eat humble pie — humility forced upon someone, often under embarrassing conditions; humiliation.
  • empire-builder — a person who seeks extra power for its own sake, esp by increasing the number of his subordinates or staff
  • emprosthotonus — (medicine) A condition in which the body is bent sharply forward.
  • enemy-occupied — occupied by a military enemy
  • exposure meter — photography: light meter
  • extemporaneous — Spoken or done without preparation.
  • flash spectrum — the emission spectrum of the chromosphere of the sun, which dominates the solar spectrum in the seconds just before and after a total solar eclipse.
  • generic markup — (text)   In computerised document preparation, a method of adding information to the text indicating the logical components of a document, such as paragraphs, headers or footnotes. SGML is an example of such a system. Specific instructions for layout of the text on the page do not appear in the markup.
  • george pullman — plural Pullmans. a railroad sleeping car or parlor car.
  • go up in smoke — the visible vapor and gases given off by a burning or smoldering substance, especially the gray, brown, or blackish mixture of gases and suspended carbon particles resulting from the combustion of wood, peat, coal, or other organic matter.
  • group marriage — (among primitive peoples) a form of marriage in which a group of males is united with a group of females to form a single conjugal unit.
  • group medicine — the practice of medicine by a number of specialists working together in association
  • guadalupe palm — a fan palm, Brahea (or Erythea) edulis, of southern California, having long clusters of globe-shaped, black, edible fruit.
  • gum turpentine — turpentine (sense 2)
  • gynecomorphous — having the form, appearance, or attributes of a female.
  • gypsum plaster — plaster made primarily of gypsum.
  • haematophagous — (of certain animals) feeding on blood
  • haplostemonous — (of plants) having the stamens arranged in a single whorl
  • hepburn system — a widely used system of Romanization of Japanese devised by James Curtis Hepburn (1815–1911).
  • hermaphroditus — a son of Hermes and Aphrodite who merged with the nymph Salmacis to form one body
  • hippopotamuses — Plural form of hippopotamus.
  • humpback whale — a large whalebone whale of the genus Megaptera having long narrow flippers, and noted for its habit of arching deeply as it dives: once abundant in coastal waters, it is now rare but its numbers are increasing.
  • humphreys peak — the highest peak in Arizona, in the N, in the San Francisco Mountains: 12,633 feet (3851 meters).
  • hurricane lamp — a candlestick or oil lantern protected against drafts or winds by a glass chimney.
  • hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
  • hypermasculine — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
  • hyperstimulate — to stimulate excessively
  • hyperuricaemia — an abnormal elevation of uric acid in the blood
  • hyperuricemias — Plural form of hyperuricemia.
  • hypotrachelium — (on a classical column) any member, as a necking, between the capital and the shaft.
  • immune complex — an aggregate of an antigen and its specific antibody.
  • immunophoresis — a technique for identifying the antigens in a blood serum
  • immunosuppress — (transitive) To cause immunosuppression in.
  • imperturbation — freedom from perturbation; tranquillity; calmness.
  • imperviousness — not permitting penetration or passage; impenetrable: The coat is impervious to rain.
  • impulse buying — the buying of retail merchandise prompted by a whim on seeing the product displayed
  • income support — welfare payment to low earners
  • injection pump — An injection pump is a device that supplies fuel under pressure to the injector of a fuel injection system.
  • intermunicipal — of or relating to a town or city or its local government: municipal elections.
  • jeune premiere — the female juvenile lead in a play or movie.
  • jump the shark — any of a group of elongate elasmobranch, mostly marine fishes, certain species of which are large, voracious, and sometimes dangerous to humans.
  • jump the track — to go suddenly off the rails
  • jumping spider — any of several small, hairy spiders, of the family Salticidae, that stalk and jump upon their prey instead of snaring it in a web.
  • keep sb amused — If you keep someone amused, you find things to do which stop them getting bored.
  • khmer republic — a former official name of Cambodia.
  • lymphedematous — Relating to lymphedema.
  • macrocephalous — Having a large head.
  • make-up artist — sb: applies performers' cosmetics
  • male menopause — a malaise that allegedly affects men in middle age and is said to be responsible for periods of emotional upset and uncharacteristic behavior.
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