15-letter words containing e, m, u, l
- cucumber beetle — any leaf beetle of the genus Diabrotica and related genera that feeds on cucumbers and other plants of the gourd family and is a vector of cucurbit wilt.
- culture complex — a group of culture traits all interrelated and dominated by one essential trait: Nationalism is a culture complex.
- culture jamming — a form of political and social activism which, by means of fake adverts, hoax news stories, pastiches of company logos and product labels, computer hacking, etc, draws attention to and at the same time subverts the power of the media, governments, and large corporations to control and distort the information that they give to the public in order to promote consumerism, militarism, etc
- current limiter — a device, as a resistor or fuse, that limits the flow of current to a prescribed amount, independent of the voltage applied.
- customer appeal — attractiveness to customers
- cuticle remover — a substance used to remove the cuticle from around the base of one's nails
- cytomegalovirus — a virus of the herpes virus family that may cause serious disease in patients whose immune systems are compromised
- demulsification — to break down (an emulsion) into separate substances incapable of re-forming the emulsion that was broken down.
- demutualization — Demutualization is a situation in which a mutually owned company such as an insurance company changes into a public company that issues stock.
- deuteranomalous — having deuteranomaly; relating to deuteranomaly
- dexfenfluramine — an adrenergic drug, a form of fenfluramine, formerly used in treating obesity but withdrawn from the market in 1997 because of its potential to cause valvular heart disease.
- diamond jubilee — A diamond jubilee is the sixtieth anniversary of an important event.
- dimethylsulfide — Alternative spelling of dimethyl sulfide.
- discombobulated — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
- discombobulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discombobulate.
- disillusionment — to free from or deprive of illusion, belief, idealism, etc.; disenchant.
- documentational — the use of documentary evidence.
- draft-mule work — drudgery
- dumbbell nebula — the planetary nebula in the constellation Vulpecula, which in photographs appears to have the shape of a dumbbell.
- dumdum (bullet) — a soft-nosed bullet that expands when it hits, inflicting a large, jagged wound
- e pluribus unum — one out of many: the motto of the USA
- eastern rumelia — an autonomous province in the Balkan peninsula, part of the Ottoman Empire, ceded in 1885 to Bulgaria
- eclipse plumage — the dull plumage developed in some brightly colored birds after the breeding season.
- edmund randolph — A(sa) Philip, 1889–1979, U.S. labor leader: president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters 1925–68.
- edriophthalmous — (of certain crustaceans) having stalkless eyes
- eleutheromaniac — Having a passionate mania for freedom.
- embalming fluid — a liquid used to treat a dead body, which contains preservatives to retard putrefaction
- emission nebula — a type of nebula that emits visible radiation
- equalitarianism — Egalitarianism.
- ethnomusicology — The study of the music of different cultures, especially non-Western ones.
- eudiometrically — By means of or in terms of eudiometry.
- euphemistically — In a euphemistic manner.
- excluded middle — the principle that every proposition is either true or false, so that there is no third truth-value and no statements lack truth-value
- family business — company owned and run by a family
- female suffrage — woman suffrage.
- ferromolybdenum — a ferroalloy containing up to 60 percent molybdenum.
- field ambulance — a mobile medical unit that accepts casualties from forward units, treating the lightly wounded and stabilizing the condition of the seriously wounded before evacuating them to a hospital
- flannel-mouthed — speaking thickly, as if one's mouth were full of flannel
- flavoursomeness — Alt form flavorsomeness.
- fleming's rules — two rules used as mnemonics for the relationship between the directions of current flow, motion, and magnetic field in electromagnetic induction. The hand is held with the thumb, first, and second fingers at right angles, respectively indicating the directions of motion, field, and electric current. The left hand is used for electric motors and the right hand for dynamos
- fluid mechanics — an applied science dealing with the basic principles of gaseous and liquid matter.
- fluorochemicals — Plural form of fluorochemical.
- food supplement — a substance designed to make up for a deficiency in one's diet
- formal argument — (programming) (Or "parameter") A name in a function or subroutine definition that is replaced by, or bound to, the corresponding actual argument when the function or subroutine is called. In many languages formal arguments behave like local variables which get initialised on entry. See: argument.
- formal language — correct or polite words and phrases
- formation rules — the set of rules that specify the syntax of a formal system; the algorithm that generates the well-formed formulae
- french mulberry — a shrub, Callicarpa americana, of the verbena family, of the south-central U.S. and the West Indies, having violet-colored fruit and bluish flowers.
- full employment — all of workforce is employed
- full-cream milk — whole unskimmed milk
- full-moon maple — Japanese maple.