15-letter words containing e, u, r, o, t, m
- countercharming — Present participle of countercharm.
- counterclaimant — a claim made to offset another claim, especially one made by the defendant in a legal action.
- counterclaiming — Present participle of counterclaim.
- counterexamples — Plural form of counterexample.
- countermandable — able to be countermanded
- countermarching — Present participle of countermarch.
- countermeasures — Plural form of countermeasure.
- countermovement — the act, process, or result of moving.
- counterreformer — a reformer who acts in opposition to another reform
- counting number — natural number
- critical volume — the volume occupied by one mole or unit mass of a substance in its critical state
- culture complex — a group of culture traits all interrelated and dominated by one essential trait: Nationalism is a culture complex.
- curia rhaetorum — a city in E Switzerland, capital of Graubünden canton. Pop: 32 989 (2000)
- customer appeal — attractiveness to customers
- customer-facing — interacting or communicating directly with customers
- customs officer — a person employed by a customs service
- customs service — The Customs Service is a United States federal organization which is responsible for collecting taxes on imported and exported goods. Compare Customs and Excise.
- 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
- deuteranomalous — having deuteranomaly; relating to deuteranomaly
- deuterium oxide — heavy water.
- deuteronomistic — one of the writers of material used in the early books of the Old Testament.
- discount market — a trading market in which notes, bills, and other negotiable instruments are discounted.
- document reader — a device that reads and inputs into a computer marks and characters on a special form, as by optical or magnetic character recognition
- domain squatter — (web) An unscrupulous person who registers a domain name in the hope of selling it to the rightful, expected owner at a profit. E.g. http://foldoc.com/.
- domitae naturae — (of animals) tamed or domesticated (distinguished from ferae naturae).
- draft-mule work — drudgery
- durchkomponiert — having a different tune for each section rather than having repeated melodies
- echinodermatous — belonging or pertaining to the echinoderms.
- edriophthalmous — (of certain crustaceans) having stalkless eyes
- eleutheromaniac — Having a passionate mania for freedom.
- enantiomorphous — Of or pertaining to enantiomorphs or enantiomorphism; enantiomorphic.
- enterobacterium — (microbiology) Any of very many gram-negative rod-shaped bacteria of the family Enterobacteriaceae, many of which are pathogenic.
- erosive mixture — An erosive mixture is a mixture containing substances that wear away components or cause problems with the flow of oil along pipelines.
- eudiometrically — By means of or in terms of eudiometry.
- excommunicatory — Relating to excommunication.
- excrementitious — Of or pertaining to the nature of excrement.
- extreme unction — Catholicism: last rites
- figure of merit — a measure of the efficiency of a helicopter in hover
- 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.
- formation rules — the set of rules that specify the syntax of a formal system; the algorithm that generates the well-formed formulae
- french vermouth — a dry aromatic white wine
- furniture mover — person: removal worker
- gesta romanorum — a popular collection of tales in Latin with moral applications, compiled in the late 13th century as a manual for preachers
- gnome computers — (company) A small UK hardware and software company. They make transputer boards for the Acorn Archimedes among other things. E-mail: Chris Stenton <[email protected]>.
- gnu mirror site — GNU archive site
- gotterdammerung — German Mythology. the destruction of the gods and of all things in a final battle with evil powers: erroneous modern translation of the Old Icelandic Ragnarǫk, meaning “fate of the gods,” misunderstood as Ragnarökkr, meaning “twilight of the gods.”.
- greater omentum — the peritoneal fold attached to the stomach and the colon and hanging over the small intestine.
- green mountains — a mountain range in E North America, extending from Canada through Vermont into W Massachusetts: part of the Appalachian system. Highest peak: Mount Mansfield, 1338 m (4393 ft)
- ground meristem — an area of primary meristematic tissue, emerging from and immediately behind the apical meristem, that develops into the pith and the cortex.