14-letter words containing e, m, u, l, a
- circumambulate — to walk around (something)
- circumvallated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumvallate.
- circumventable — Capable of being circumvented.
- clavicytherium — a kind of harpsichord
- clouded magpie — a geometrid moth, Abraxas sylvata, that is paler than the magpie moth
- columbia river — a river in SW Canada and the NW United States, flowing S and W from SE British Columbia through Washington along the boundary between Washington and Oregon and into the Pacific. 1214 miles (1955 km) long.
- come naturally — If something comes naturally to you, you find it easy to do and quickly become good at it.
- command module — the cone-shaped module used as the living quarters in an Apollo spacecraft and functioning as the splashdown vehicle
- commensurately — corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree: Your paycheck should be commensurate with the amount of time worked.
- computerizable — able to be computerized
- conglomerateur — a person who forms or leads a business conglomerate
- cosmeceuticals — Plural form of cosmeceutical.
- counterclaimed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterclaim.
- counterexample — an example or fact that is inconsistent with a hypothesis and may be used in argument against it
- cream-coloured — cream in colour
- croquet mallet — the wooden mallet used by a croquet player
- cruciverbalism — the compilation of crosswords
- cumberland gap — pass in the Cumberland Plateau, at the juncture of the Va., Ky., & Tenn. borders: c. 1,700 ft (518 m) high
- cumulativeness — The state or quality of being cumulative.
- damascus steel — a hard flexible steel with wavy markings caused by forging the metal in strips: used for sword blades
- decompoundable — able to be broken down into its component parts
- denumerability — the quality of being countable
- discombobulate — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
- documentalists — Plural form of documentalist.
- double marking — a method of assessment in which two individuals independently mark a test or evaluate a performance
- double measure — A double measure is a drink that is twice the normal measure.
- dummy variable — a variable appearing in a mathematical expression that can be replaced by any arbitrary variable, not occurring in the expression, without affecting the value of the whole
- eat humble pie — humility forced upon someone, often under embarrassing conditions; humiliation.
- eleutheromania — A great desire for or obsession with freedom.
- elevator music — recorded popular music played in the background in public places such as elevators, variously regarded as being bland, monotonous, etc.
- emulsification — The process by which an emulsion is formed.
- estivoautumnal — (mainly US) Variant spelling of 'aestivoautumnal'.
- euclidean norm — (mathematics) The most common norm, calculated by summing the squares of all coordinates and taking the square root. This is the essence of Pythagoras's theorem. In the infinite-dimensional case, the sum is infinite or is replaced with an integral when the number of dimensions is uncountable.
- family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
- farmhouse loaf — a large white loaf, baked in a tin, with slightly curved sides and top
- final judgment — judgment (def 8).
- flame-coloured — having a strong reddish-orange colour
- flannelmouthed — talking thickly, slowly, or haltingly.
- 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.
- fluorochemical — a chemical compound containing fluorine.
- formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
- frenet formula — one of a set of formulas for finding the curvature and torsion of a plane or space curve in terms of vectors tangent or normal to the curve.
- fundamentalism — (sometimes initial capital letter) a religious movement characterized by a strict belief in the literal interpretation of religious texts, especially within American Protestantism and Islam.
- fundamentalist — an adherent of fundamentalism, a religious movement characterized by a strict belief in the literal interpretation of religious texts: radical fundamentalists.
- fundamentality — serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying: fundamental principles; the fundamental structure.
- gallamine blue — a type of mordant dye
- gambling house — a building for gambling, especially for a large number of betting games.
- george pullman — plural Pullmans. a railroad sleeping car or parlor car.
- gerald sussman — (person) (Gerald J. Sussman, Jerry) A noted hacker at MIT and one of the developers of SCHEME and 6.001.
- guadalupe palm — a fan palm, Brahea (or Erythea) edulis, of southern California, having long clusters of globe-shaped, black, edible fruit.