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

  • tenement house — a building divided into tenements, or apartments, now specif. one in the slums that is run-down, overcrowded, etc.
  • tenement-house — Also called tenement house. a run-down and often overcrowded apartment house, especially in a poor section of a large city.
  • terbium metals — a series of closely related rare-earth elements, including terbium, gadolinium, europium, and, sometimes, dysprosium
  • term insurance — an insurance policy that provides coverage for a limited period, the value payable only if a loss occurs within the term, with nothing payable upon its expiration.
  • terminal bonus — a bonus paid on a life insurance policy when the holder reaches a certain age or dies
  • terminus a quo — the end from which; beginning; starting point; earliest limiting point.
  • tetrachotomous — divided into four parts
  • the game is up — If you say the game is up, you mean that someone's secret plans or activities have been revealed and therefore must stop because they cannot succeed.
  • the humanities — the study of literature, philosophy, and the arts
  • the kama sutra — an ancient Hindu text on erotic pleasure and other topics
  • the last trump — the final trumpet call that according to the belief of some will awaken and raise the dead on the Day of Judgment
  • the rheumatics — rheumatic pains
  • the surinamese — the people of Surinam collectively
  • the worm turns — If you say that the worm turns, you mean that someone who usually obeys another person or accepts their bad behaviour unexpectedly starts resisting that person or expresses their anger.
  • thermoacoustic — pertaining to a method of cooling using air driven with acoustic power.
  • thermophyllous — relating to deciduous plants or trees that bear leaves only during the warmer times of the year
  • thesaurismosis — storage disease.
  • thomas younger — Thomas Coleman ("Cole") 1844–1916, U.S. outlaw, associated with Jesse James.
  • thorium series — the radioactive series that starts with thorium and ends with a stable isotope of lead of mass number 208.
  • thymelaeaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Thymelaeaceae, a family of trees and shrubs having tough acrid bark and simple leaves: includes spurge laurel, leatherwood, and mezereon
  • tiger mosquito — a large Asian mosquito, Aedes albopictus, introduced into the southern U.S., that is a vector of dengue and other infectious diseases.
  • timber cruiser — cruiser (def 6).
  • time signature — a numerical or other indication at the beginning of a piece showing the meter.
  • time simulator — (simulation)   (Tsim) A stack-based simulation language. Contact: ZOLA Technologies.
  • time-consuming — (of an action) requiring or wasting much time.
  • to make a fuss — If you make a fuss or kick up a fuss about something, you become angry or excited about it and complain.
  • trachyspermous — having seeds with a rough coat.
  • trade unionism — the system, methods, or practice of trade or labor unions.
  • transit number — an identifying number assigned by a banking organization to a bank and printed on its checks.
  • transmasculine — noting or relating to a person who was born female but whose gender identity is more male than female.
  • transsexualism — a person having a strong desire to assume the physical characteristics and gender role of the opposite sex.
  • triple measure — time or rhythm characterized by three beats to the measure with an accent on the first beat.
  • trituberculism — the condition of being trituberculate
  • trumpeter swan — a large, pure-white, wild swan, Cygnus buccinator, of North America, having a sonorous cry: once near extinction, the species is now recovering.
  • tumbler switch — electrical control
  • turkish empire — Ottoman Empire
  • turnkey system — Computers. a computer system purchased from hardware and software vendors, customized and put in working order by a firm that then sells the completed system to the client that ordered it.
  • ultramasculine — extremely masculine
  • umbrella skirt — a full skirt with many gores that flare gradually from the waist to the hem.
  • umbrella stand — an upright rack or stand for umbrellas
  • unaccomplished — not accomplished; incomplete or not carried out: Many tasks remain unaccomplished.
  • unaccustomedly — in an unaccustomed manner
  • unadministered — to manage (affairs, a government, etc.); have executive charge of: to administer the law.
  • undecomposable — indecomposable or unable to be decomposed
  • undemonstrable — not able to be made evident
  • under-consumed — to destroy or expend by use; use up.
  • underemphasize — to give less than sufficient emphasis to; minimize.
  • understatement — the act or an instance of understating, or representing in a weak or restrained way that is not borne out by the facts: The journalist wrote that the earthquake had caused some damage. This turned out to be a massive understatement of the devastation.
  • undiminishable — unable to be diminished
  • undomesticated — to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
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