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14-letter words containing e, u, r, o, m

  • drum majorette — a girl or woman who leads a marching band or drum corps.
  • dutch reformed — of or relating to a Protestant denomination (Dutch Reformed Church) founded by Dutch settlers in New York in 1628 and renamed the Reformed Church in America in 1867.
  • eleutheromania — A great desire for or obsession with freedom.
  • elevator music — recorded popular music played in the background in public places such as elevators, variously regarded as being bland, monotonous, etc.
  • emprosthotonus — (medicine) A condition in which the body is bent sharply forward.
  • encouragements — Plural form of encouragement.
  • euclidean norm — (mathematics)   The most common norm, calculated by summing the squares of all coordinates and taking the square root. This is the essence of Pythagoras's theorem. In the infinite-dimensional case, the sum is infinite or is replaced with an integral when the number of dimensions is uncountable.
  • excommunicator — One who excommunicates.
  • exposure meter — photography: light meter
  • extemporaneous — Spoken or done without preparation.
  • fanum fortunae — ancient name of Fano.
  • farmhouse loaf — a large white loaf, baked in a tin, with slightly curved sides and top
  • ferrozirconium — a ferroalloy containing up to 40 percent zirconium.
  • field mushroom — any of various fleshy fungi including the toadstools, puffballs, coral fungi, morels, etc.
  • flame-coloured — having a strong reddish-orange colour
  • fluorochemical — a chemical compound containing fluorine.
  • foramen magnum — the large opening in the base of the skull forming the passage from the cranial cavity to the spinal canal.
  • foraminiferous — Having small openings, or foramina.
  • formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
  • founder member — A founder member of a club, group, or organization is one of the first members, often one who was involved in setting it up.
  • four-four time — a form of simple quadruple time in which there are four crotchets to the bar, indicated by the time signature 44
  • frenet formula — one of a set of formulas for finding the curvature and torsion of a plane or space curve in terms of vectors tangent or normal to the curve.
  • george pullman — plural Pullmans. a railroad sleeping car or parlor car.
  • great yarmouth — a city in SE Massachusetts.
  • ground hemlock — a prostrate yew, Taxus canadensis, of eastern North America, having short, flat needles and red, berrylike fruit.
  • group marriage — (among primitive peoples) a form of marriage in which a group of males is united with a group of females to form a single conjugal unit.
  • group medicine — the practice of medicine by a number of specialists working together in association
  • guarantee form — a document that spells out the terms of a legally binding guarantee
  • gynecomorphous — having the form, appearance, or attributes of a female.
  • harbour master — an official in charge of a harbour
  • harmoniousness — The characteristic of being harmonious.
  • health tourism — tourist travel for the purpose of receiving medical treatment or improving health or fitness: The spiraling cost of healthcare has contributed to the growth of medical tourism. Also called health tourism.
  • hemoglobinuria — the presence of hemoglobin pigment in the urine.
  • hermaphroditus — a son of Hermes and Aphrodite who merged with the nymph Salmacis to form one body
  • hero's formula — the formula for the area of a triangle when the sides are given: for a triangle with sides a, b, and c, the area is equal to , where s is equal to one half the perimeter of the triangle.
  • heterochromous — of different colors.
  • heterosomatous — (of fish) having an abnormal or asymmetrical body type
  • home insurance — Home insurance is insurance coverage for your home, its contents, and your possessions.
  • homeward bound — going home
  • homomultimeric — (biochemistry) Describing a protein containing two or more identical polypeptide chains.
  • honey mushroom — the edible mushroom of the oak-root fungus, Armillariella mellea.
  • horse mushroom — a smooth, edible, large white-capped mushroom, Agaricus arvensis, that has the odor of anise, common in North American meadows and fields.
  • housing market — property trade
  • humourlessness — Alternative spelling of humorlessness.
  • humoursomeness — the quality of being humoursome
  • hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
  • hypotrachelium — (on a classical column) any member, as a necking, between the capital and the shaft.
  • immunophoresis — a technique for identifying the antigens in a blood serum
  • immunoreaction — Immune reaction.
  • immunoreactive — Of, pertaining to, or causing an immune reaction.
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