16-letter words containing e, m, r
- twin-lens camera — a camera having two separately mounted lenses coordinated to eliminate parallax errors or for making stereoscopic photographs.
- two-body problem — the problem of calculating the motions of two bodies in space moving solely under the influence of their mutual gravitational attraction.
- two-party system — a political system consisting chiefly of two major parties, more or less equal in strength.
- two-percent milk — Two-percent milk is milk from which some of the cream has been removed.
- two-pot screamer — a person easily influenced by alcohol
- ultra-liberalism — extremely liberal, especially in politics.
- ultraminiaturize — to reduce to an ultraminiature size or scale.
- umbilical hernia — a hernia of the umbilicus.
- uncomprehensible — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
- under sb's thumb — If you are under someone's thumb, you are under their control, or very heavily influenced by them.
- under the hammer — a tool consisting of a solid head, usually of metal, set crosswise on a handle, used for beating metals, driving nails, etc.
- under-employment — employed at a job that does not fully use one's skills or abilities.
- under-modulation — to reproduce (a sound or signal) at below the optimal output level in a recording or broadcasting system, causing it to be distorted.
- undercompensated — to compensate or pay less than is fair, customary, or expected.
- underconsumption — the act of consuming, as by use, decay, or destruction.
- undernourishment — If someone is suffering from undernourishment, they have poor health because they are not eating enough food or are eating the wrong kind of food.
- unfranked income — any income from an investment that does not qualify as franked investment income
- uniformed branch — the branch of a police force in which officers wear a uniform
- unimpressionable — easily impressed or influenced; susceptible: an impressionable youngster.
- unimproved value — the valuation of land for rating purposes, disregarding the value of buildings or other development
- union membership — members of a trade union
- unmarried mother — a woman who has a baby while she is not married
- upper atmosphere — the portion of the atmosphere above the troposphere.
- uranium trioxide — a radioactive orange powder, UO 3 , used in the manufacture of some ceramics.
- ureterolithotomy — incision of a ureter for removal of a calculus.
- valet de chambre — valet (def 1).
- valles marineris — a canyon on Mars, 3100 miles (5000 km) in length, named after the Mariner spacecraft.
- vectorcardiogram — the graphic record produced by vectorcardiography.
- vegetable marrow — any of various summer squashes, as the cocozelle and zucchini.
- vertebral column — spinal column.
- vertical farming — a proposed system of growing crops in urban areas using specially designed skyscrapers
- victimless crime — a legal offense, as prostitution or gambling, to which all participating parties have consented.
- video journalism — the techniques, methods, etc., of preparing and broadcasting informational, social, political, and other nonfiction subjects via news and documentary programs.
- visibility meter — any instrument for measuring the visual range through the atmosphere, as a transmissometer.
- visible spectrum — the range of wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation that is normally visible, from 380 to 760 nm.
- visiting fireman — an influential person accorded special treatment while visiting an organization, industry, city, etc.
- vitamin-enriched — having had vitamins added
- voice of america — the division of the United States Information Agency that broadcasts daily programs of news and entertainment throughout the world. Abbreviation: VOA, V.O.A.
- voluntary muscle — muscle whose action is normally controlled by an individual's will; mainly skeletal muscle, composed of parallel bundles of striated, multinucleate fibers.
- walrus moustache — a long thick moustache drooping at the ends
- warminster broom — a European shrub, Cytisus praecox, of the legume family, having yellowish-white or yellow, pealike flowers.
- waterleaf family — the plant family Hydrophyllaceae, characterized by usually hairy herbaceous plants having lobed, divided, or compound leaves, five-parted blue or white flowers, and capsular fruit, and including baby-blue-eyes, phacelia, and waterleaf.
- welfare payments — government benefits
- well-recommended — to present as worthy of confidence, acceptance, use, etc.; commend; mention favorably: to recommend an applicant for a job; to recommend a book.
- wide of the mark — If something such as a claim or estimate is wide of the mark, it is incorrect or inaccurate.
- willem-alexander — full name Willem-Alexander Claus George Ferdinand. born 1967, king of the Netherlands from 2013
- wimp environment — WIMP
- wind instruments — a musical instrument sounded by the breath or other air current, as the trumpet, trombone, clarinet, or flute.
- wireless message — a radio message
- without ceremony — in a casual or informal manner