13-letter words containing e, m, u, l
- councilmember — a member of a council, especially a legislative council.
- counterclaims — Plural form of counterclaim.
- countermelody — a secondary melody that accompanies the primary melody
- cramer's rule — a method involving the determinant of the coefficients, for calculating a unique solution for a given system of linear equations.
- crumple zones — parts of a motor vehicle, at the front and the rear, that are designed to crumple in a collision, thereby absorbing the impact
- culloden moor — a moor in NE Scotland, near Inverness: site of the battle that ended the Jacobite Rebellion 1746.
- customer flow — Customer flow is the movement of customers around a store.
- cyclospermous — having the embryo curled around the central albumen
- demasculinise — Alternative spelling of demasculinize.
- demasculinize — Medicine/Medical. to produce certain male secondary sex characteristics in (a female).
- demi-culverin — a culverin having a bore of about 4½ inches (11 cm) and firing a shot of about 10 pounds (5 kg).
- demultiplexer — a type of electronic circuit which receives a single input signal and selects one of multiple possible output routes to which to transmit the signal
- desublimation — (physics) deposition (transformation of gas into solid without an intermediate liquid phase).
- deuteranomaly — a milder form of deuteranopia; partial deuteranopia
- dichlamydeous — (of a flower) having a corolla and calyx
- disilluminate — to darken
- dissimilitude — unlikeness; difference; dissimilarity.
- documentalist — a specialist in documentation; a person working strictly with information and record-keeping.
- documentarily — Also, documental [dok-yuh-men-tl] /ˌdɒk yəˈmɛn tl/ (Show IPA). pertaining to, consisting of, or derived from documents: a documentary history of France.
- dolly mixture — a mixture of small coloured sweets
- double magnum — Jeroboam (def 2).
- double whammy — twofold misfortune
- double-bottom — tandem trailer (def 1).
- double-dumped — (of a wool bale) compressed, with two bales occupying the volume-equivalent of one ordinary bale
- double-minded — wavering or undecided in mind.
- drug smuggler — trafficker in illegal substances
- drum paneling — flush paneling in a door.
- drummondville — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- dumb terminal — (hardware) A type of terminal that consists of a keyboard and a display screen that can be used to enter and transmit data to, or display data from, a computer to which it is connected. A dumb terminal, in contrast to an intelligent terminal, has no independent processing capability or auxiliary storage and thus cannot function as a stand-alone device. The dumbest kind of terminal is a glass tty. The next step up has a minimally addressable cursor but no on-screen editing or other features normally supported by an intelligent terminal. Once upon a time, when glass ttys were common and addressable cursors were something special, what is now called a dumb terminal could pass for a smart terminal.
- dumbfoundedly — In a dumbfounded manner.
- dumdum bullet — a hollow-nosed or soft-nosed bullet that expands on impact, inflicting a severe wound.
- dumdum-bullet — a hollow-nosed or soft-nosed bullet that expands on impact, inflicting a severe wound.
- dummy element — an otherwise empty element that stands in for and holds the position of another element in a sentence
- ecumenicalism — the doctrines and practices of the ecumenical movement.
- edinburgh sml — (EdML) Implementation of the Core language of SML. Byte-code interpreter in C. Ported to Amiga, Atari, Archimedes and IBM PC. Version: 0.44. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- entomophilous — (of flowering plants) pollinated by insects
- enumerability — The condition of being enumerable.
- equimolecular — (chemistry) Containing the same number of molecules (of two or more compounds).
- ethnophaulism — An ethnic or racial slur, typically caricaturing some identifiable (often physical) feature of the group being derided. For example,
- euphemistical — Archaic form of euphemistic.
- exploratorium — A museum or similar institution that encourages visitors to explore the exhibits in a hands-on manner.
- family values — belief in traditional family unit
- farm labourer — a person engaged in physical work on a farm
- farmer's lung — a lung disorder caused by inhalation of moldy hay dust, marked by shortness of breath, dry cough, and weight loss.
- fatigue limit — the maximum stress to which a material can be subjected without failing.
- felony murder — a killing treated as a murder because, though unintended, it occurred during the commission or attempted commission of a felony, as robbery.
- ferroaluminum — a ferroalloy containing up to 80 percent aluminum.
- feudal system — the political, military, and social system in the Middle Ages, based on the holding of lands in fief or fee and on the resulting relations between lord and vassal.
- feuilletonism — The light, entertaining writing style associated with feuilletons.
- filibusterism — (dated) Piracy, freebooting; the waging of unauthorised war.