16-letter words containing l, a, m, o, u, r
- multiple factors — polygene.
- multiprogramming — multitasking
- musical director — A musical director is the same as a music director.
- mustard-coloured — of a brownish-yellow colour
- mutual recursion — recursion
- natural monopoly — the situation when, due to the economies of scale of a particular industry, the maximum efficiency of production and distribution is realized through a single supplier
- neuroepithelioma — Neurocytoma.
- non-instrumental — serving or acting as an instrument or means; useful; helpful.
- nuclear emulsion — a photographic emulsion in the form of a thick block, used to record the tracks of elementary particles.
- nuclear magneton — a unit of magnetic moment, used to measure proton spin and approximately equal to 1/1836 Bohr magneton.
- operating manual — a leaflet of instructions on how to use something (such as an electrical appliance, etc)
- optical computer — an experimental computer that uses photons rather than electrical impulses to process data a thousand times faster than with conventional integrated circuits.
- outsmart oneself — to have one's efforts at cunning or cleverness result in one's own disadvantage
- overaccumulation — Accumulation of too much.
- palmtop computer — a computer that has a small screen and compressed keyboard and is small enough to be held in the hand, often used as a personal organizer
- palomar mountain — mountain in SW Calif., near San Diego: site of an astronomical observatory: 6,140 ft (1,871 m)
- parasol mushroom — a common edible field mushroom, Macrolepiota (Lepiota) procera, having a light-brown, scaly cap.
- perpetual motion — the motion of a theoretical mechanism that, without any losses due to friction or other forms of dissipation of energy, would continue to operate indefinitely at the same rate without any external energy being applied to it.
- photograph album — bound book for photos
- print journalism — journalism as practiced in newspapers and magazines.
- pullorum disease — a highly contagious, frequently fatal disease of young poultry caused by the bacterium Salmonella gallinarum (pullorum), transmitted by the infected hen during egg production, and characterized by weakness, loss of appetite, and diarrhea.
- pulmonary artery — an artery conveying venous blood from the right ventricle of the heart to the lungs.
- quasi-commercial — of, relating to, or characteristic of commerce.
- quasi-compulsory — required; mandatory; obligatory: compulsory education.
- redemption value — the price at which the issuing company may choose to repurchase a security before its maturity date
- romeo and juliet — a tragedy (produced between 1591 and 1596) by Shakespeare.
- rough and tumble — characterized by violent, random, disorderly action and struggles: a rough-and-tumble fight; He led an adventuresome, rough-and-tumble life.
- rough-and-tumble — characterized by violent, random, disorderly action and struggles: a rough-and-tumble fight; He led an adventuresome, rough-and-tumble life.
- sclerenchymatous — supporting or protective tissue composed of thickened, dry, and hardened cells.
- source materials — publications from which information is obtained
- square kilometer — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one kilometer on each side. 2 , sq. km. Abbreviation: km.
- summer complaint — an acute condition of diarrhea, occurring during the hot summer months chiefly in infants and children, caused by bacterial contamination of food and associated with poor hygiene.
- supernationalism — an extreme or fanatical loyalty or devotion to a nation.
- supranationalism — outside or beyond the authority of one national government, as a project or policy that is planned and controlled by a group of nations.
- telecommunicator — to transmit (data, sound, images, etc.) by telecommunications.
- thermal neutrons — a neutron with low kinetic energy, especially one slowed by the moderator in a nuclear reactor.
- thermoregulation — the regulation of body temperature.
- transilluminator — to cause light to pass through.
- ultramicroscopic — an instrument that uses scattering phenomena to detect the position of objects too small to be seen by an ordinary microscope.
- ultranationalism — extreme devotion to or advocacy of the interests of a nation, especially regardless of the effect on any other nations.
- unconfirmability — to establish the truth, accuracy, validity, or genuineness of; corroborate; verify: This report confirms my suspicions.
- under-modulation — to reproduce (a sound or signal) at below the optimal output level in a recording or broadcasting system, causing it to be distorted.
- unimpressionable — easily impressed or influenced; susceptible: an impressionable youngster.
- unimproved value — the valuation of land for rating purposes, disregarding the value of buildings or other development
- vertebral column — spinal column.
- video journalism — the techniques, methods, etc., of preparing and broadcasting informational, social, political, and other nonfiction subjects via news and documentary programs.
- voluntary muscle — muscle whose action is normally controlled by an individual's will; mainly skeletal muscle, composed of parallel bundles of striated, multinucleate fibers.
- walrus moustache — a long thick moustache drooping at the ends