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13-letter words containing e, n, l, u, m

  • desublimation — (physics) deposition (transformation of gas into solid without an intermediate liquid phase).
  • deuteranomaly — a milder form of deuteranopia; partial deuteranopia
  • disilluminate — to darken
  • 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.
  • double magnum — Jeroboam (def 2).
  • double-minded — wavering or undecided in mind.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • ethnophaulism — An ethnic or racial slur, typically caricaturing some identifiable (often physical) feature of the group being derided. For example,
  • farmer's lung — a lung disorder caused by inhalation of moldy hay dust, marked by shortness of breath, dry cough, and weight loss.
  • 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.
  • feuilletonism — The light, entertaining writing style associated with feuilletons.
  • film sequence — a short piece of film or extract from a film, depicting a specific action or event
  • flame cutting — a method of cutting ferrous metals in which the metal is heated by a torch to about 800°C and is oxidized by a stream of oxygen from the torch
  • flannel-mouth — a person whose speech is thick, slow, or halting.
  • flight number — the identifying number of a scheduled flight
  • flunitrazepam — a powerful benzodiazepine sedative, C 16 H 12 FN 3 O 3 , that causes semiconsciousness and memory blackouts: has been implicated in date rapes and is illegal in the U.S.
  • foul-smelling — having a very unpleasant smell
  • fulani empire — a powerful W African Muslim state that flourished in the 19th century in the area of present-day Nigeria.
  • fundamentally — serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying: fundamental principles; the fundamental structure.
  • funemployment — the condition of a person who enjoys being out of work
  • funeral march — march played for funeral processions
  • geminiflorous — having flowers arranged in pairs.
  • gliding lemur — flying lemur.
  • gnu assembler — (GAS) A Unix assembler for the GNU project. Many CPU types are handled and COFF and IEEE-695 formats are supported as well as standard a.out. Current version 2.2 ported to Sun-3, Sun-4, i386, 386BSD, BSD/386, Linux, PS/2-AIX, VAX, Ultrix, BSD, VMS. The assembler has been merged with GNU Binutils. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • gobar numeral — any of a set of ancient numerals derived from Hindu numerals
  • golden number — a number between 1 and 19, used to indicate the position of any year in the Metonic cycle, calculated as the remainder when 1 is added to the given year and the sum is divided by 19. If the remainder is zero the number is 19
  • haemodilution — an increase in the fluid content of blood leading to a lower concentration of red blood cells
  • helianthemums — Plural form of helianthemum.
  • hemagglutinin — A substance, such as a viral protein, that causes hemagglutination.
  • hermeneutical — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
  • homeoteleuton — a series of words with the same or similar endings.
  • homofullerene — (chemistry) Any of various compounds formally derived from a fullerene by the insertion of a methylene group between adjacent carbon atoms.
  • homogeneously — composed of parts or elements that are all of the same kind; not heterogeneous: a homogeneous population.
  • homologoumena — the books in the New Testament generally held as authoritative and canonical by the early church.
  • human ecology — ecology (def 4).
  • hummle bonnet — a cap formerly worn by Scottish soldiers
  • humorlessness — The state, quality, or condition of lacking humor.
  • ichneumon fly — any of numerous wasplike insects of the family Ichneumonidae, the larvae of which are parasitic on caterpillars and immature stages of other insects.
  • illuminometer — an instrument for measuring illumination.
  • immanuel kant — Immanuel [ih-man-yoo-uh l;; German ih-mah-noo-el] /ɪˈmæn yu əl;; German ɪˈmɑ nuˌɛl/ (Show IPA), 1724–1804, German philosopher.
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