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14-letter words containing e, m, u

  • béchamel sauce — a thick white sauce flavoured with onion and seasonings
  • bechamel-sauce — a white sauce, sometimes seasoned with onion and nutmeg.
  • bedroom suburb — a commuter suburb, from which people travel to the city centre to work
  • believe you me — You can use believe you me to emphasize that what you are saying is true.
  • benzosulfimide — saccharin.
  • bermuda collar — a narrow, pointed collar on a woman's dress or blouse
  • bermuda cutter — a marconi-rigged cutter.
  • bermuda shorts — close-fitting shorts that come down to the knees
  • beta geminorum — Pollux
  • beyond measure — If you say that something has changed or that it has affected you beyond measure, you are emphasizing that it has done this to a great extent.
  • bible-thumping — an evangelist or other person who quotes the Bible frequently, especially as a means of exhortation or rebuke.
  • bildungsromane — a type of novel concerned with the education, development, and maturing of a young protagonist.
  • bioluminescent — the production of light by living organisms.
  • bircher muesli — a type of muesli containing softened oats, dried fruit, and apple
  • black mulberry — a small deciduous tree, Morus nigra, with small leaves, producing edible fruit
  • black selenium — an allotropic form of selenium occurring as a black, amorphous, water-insoluble, light-sensitive powder: used chiefly in photoelectric cells.
  • blue mountains — a mountain range in the US, in NE Oregon and SE Washington. Highest peak: Rock Creek Butte, 2773 m (9097 ft)
  • blue-eyed mary — a blue-flowered boraginaceous plant, Omphalodes verna, native to S Europe and cultivated in Britain
  • bouleversement — an overthrow or reversal; violent turmoil
  • bounce message — A notification message returned to the sender by a site unable to relay e-mail to the intended recipient or the next link in a bang path. Reasons might include a nonexistent or misspelled user name or a down relay site. Bounce messages can themselves fail, with occasionally ugly results; see sorcerer's apprentice mode and software laser. The terms "bounce mail" and "barfmail" are also common.
  • bound moisture — Bound moisture is liquid in a solid, which exerts a vapor pressure that is less than the pure liquid would do at the same temperature.
  • bremsstrahlung — the radiation produced when an electrically charged particle, esp an electron, is slowed down by the electric field of an atomic nucleus or an atomic ion
  • british museum — a museum in London, founded in 1753: contains one of the world's richest collections of antiquities and (until 1997) most of the British Library
  • broad-spectrum — effective against a wide variety of diseases or microorganisms
  • bubble chamber — a device that enables the tracks of ionizing particles to be photographed as a row of bubbles in a superheated liquid. Immediately before the particles enter the chamber the pressure is reduced so that the ionized particles act as centres for small vapour bubbles
  • bubble company — a company whose shares are highly valued and then plummet
  • bug-compatible — Said of a design or revision that has been badly compromised by a requirement to be compatible with fossils or misfeatures in other programs or (especially) previous releases of itself. "MS-DOS 2.0 used \ as a path separator to be bug-compatible with some cretin's choice of / as an option character in 1.0."
  • bumper sticker — A bumper sticker is a small piece of paper or plastic with words or pictures on it, designed for sticking onto the back of your car. It usually has a political, religious, or humorous message.
  • bungee jumping — If someone goes bungee jumping, they jump from a high place such as a bridge or cliff with a long piece of strong elastic cord tied around their ankle connecting them to the bridge or cliff.
  • bungee-jumping — the sport of jumping off a high structure to which one is attached by bungee cords, so that the body springs back just short of hitting the ground or water.
  • buteyko method — a breath control technique used to prevent hyperventilation and treat asthma without drugs
  • butterfly bomb — Military. a small, aerial, antipersonnel bomb with two folding wings that revolve, slowing the rate of descent and arming the fuze.
  • buttermilk sky — a cloudy sky resembling the mottled or clabbered appearance of buttermilk.
  • buyer's market — When there is a buyer's market for a particular product, there are more of the products for sale than there are people who want to buy them, so buyers have a lot of choice and can make prices come down.
  • buyers' market — a market in which goods and services are plentiful and prices relatively low.
  • buying manager — The buying manager of a store is a senior employee whose job is to manage the purchase and delivery of products and supplies, maintaining stock levels.
  • by the numbers — in prescribed sequence of movements and accompanied by a count
  • cadmium bronze — an alloy of copper with about 1 percent cadmium.
  • cadmium orange — a yellow color approaching orange.
  • cadmium yellow — a very vivid yellow containing cadmium sulphide
  • calumniousness — Calumny.
  • cambridge blue — a lightish blue colour
  • camera obscura — a darkened chamber or small building in which images of outside objects are projected onto a flat surface by a convex lens in an aperture
  • camouflageable — able to be camouflaged
  • camp counselor — activities supervisor
  • campanulaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Campanulaceae, a family of temperate and subtropical plants, including the campanulas, having bell-shaped nodding flowers
  • camphor laurel — an Australian name for the camphor tree, now occurring in the wild in parts of Australia
  • cardiac muscle — a specialized form of striated muscle occurring in the hearts of vertebrates.
  • carpet muncher — lesbian
  • catechumenship — the office or position of a catechumen
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