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

  • immunosuppressor — (pharmacology) An immunosuppressive agent.
  • impact extrusion — an extrusion process in which a slug of cold metal in a shallow die cavity is formed by the action of a rapidly moving punch that forces the metal through the die or back around the punch.
  • import surcharge — a tax imposed on all imported goods, adding to any established tariffs
  • in your own time — If you do something in your own time, you do it at the speed that you choose, rather than allowing anyone to hurry you.
  • incommensurables — Plural form of incommensurable.
  • inharmoniousness — The quality of being inharmonious.
  • inmos transputer — transputer
  • intercommunicate — to communicate mutually, as people.
  • interim accounts — accounts published in the course of the financial year
  • intramolecularly — In an intramolecular manner; within a molecule.
  • italian vermouth — sweet vermouth
  • journeyman baker — a baker who is qualified to work in the employment of another
  • juvenile hormone — any of a class of insect and plant hormones acting to inhibit the molting of a juvenile insect into its adult form.
  • kekule's formula — the structural formula of benzene represented as a hexagonal ring with alternate single and double bonds between the carbon atoms.
  • labour agreement — a contract between workers and managers setting out working conditions, wages, etc
  • letter of marque — license or commission granted by a state to a private citizen to capture and confiscate the merchant ships of another nation.
  • lithium chloride — a white, water-soluble, deliquescent, crystalline solid, LiCl, used chiefly in the manufacture of mineral water, especially lithia water, and as a flux in metallurgy.
  • lithium fluoride — a fine, white, slightly water-soluble powder, LiF, used chiefly in the manufacture of ceramics.
  • lose your memory — If you lose your memory, you forget things that you used to know.
  • lourenco marques — former name of Maputo.
  • macpherson strut — an automobile suspension-system component that consists of a strut combined with a spring and shock absorber and connects the wheel to the frame of the vehicle.
  • magnetic equator — aclinic line.
  • mail-order house — a retail firm that conducts its business by receiving orders and shipping its merchandise through the mail and that supplies its customers with catalogs, circulars, etc.
  • make a virtue of — If you make a virtue of something, you pretend that you did it because you chose to, although in fact you did it because you had to.
  • manhood suffrage — the right of adult male citizens to vote
  • marriage customs — the acts that are traditionally done in connection with a marriage
  • marsh cinquefoil — a variety of cinquefoil, Potentilla palustris, that grows in marshy areas
  • mass destruction — devastation on a large scale
  • matter of course — an event or result that is natural or inevitable
  • matter-of-course — occurring or proceeding in or as if in the logical, natural, or customary course of things; expected or inevitable.
  • measured daywork — a system of wage payment, usually determined by work-study techniques, whereby the wage of an employee is fixed on the understanding that a specific level of work performance will be maintained
  • menstrual period — the bleeding from the womb that occurs approximately monthly in nonpregnant women of reproductive age
  • merchant account — A merchant account is a type of bank account that allows a company to accept credit cards.
  • mercury autocode — Autocode for the Ferranti Mercury machine.
  • mercury chloride — mercuric chloride
  • meretriciousness — alluring by a show of flashy or vulgar attractions; tawdry.
  • metallofullerene — (chemistry) A fullerene containing an enclosed metal atom.
  • microconstituent — a microscopically small constituent of a metal or alloy.
  • microencapsulate — (transitive) To embed by means of microencapsulation.
  • microminiaturize — (especially of electronic equipment) to make extremely small; subject to microminiaturization.
  • microvasculature — the system of tiny blood vessels, including capillaries, venules, and arterioles, that perfuse the body's tissues.
  • miniature poodle — a breed of poodle, bred to be much smaller than standard poodles
  • mock turtle soup — a rich, clear soup prepared to resemble green turtle soup, made with a calf's head or other meat, seasonings, and often with wine.
  • modern languages — languages currently spoken
  • modular language — (language)   (Modula) Wirth's 1977 predecessor of Modula-2. The original Modula was, more oriented toward concurrent programming, but otherwise quite similar.
  • molecular volume — the volume occupied by one mole of a substance
  • molecular weight — the average weight of a molecule of an element or compound measured in units once based on the weight of one hydrogen atom taken as the standard or on 1/16 (0.0625) the weight of an oxygen atom, but after 1961 based on 1/12 (0.083) the weight of the carbon-12 atom; the sum of the atomic weights of all the atoms in a molecule. Abbreviation: mol. wt.
  • money laundering — Money laundering is the crime of processing stolen money through a legitimate business or sending it abroad to a foreign bank, to hide the fact that the money was illegally obtained.
  • monoline insurer — insurer who pays the principal and interest on a bond in the event of a default
  • montague grammar — a model-theoretic semantic theory for natural language that seeks to encompass indexical expressions and opaque contexts within an extensional theory by constructing set-theoretic representations of the intension of an expression in terms of functions of possible worlds
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