14-letter words containing m, e, r, s, n
- trade unionism — the system, methods, or practice of trade or labor unions.
- transempirical — beyond the range of experiential knowledge.
- transformative — to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
- transit number — an identifying number assigned by a banking organization to a bank and printed on its checks.
- transit system — public transport service
- transmasculine — noting or relating to a person who was born female but whose gender identity is more male than female.
- transsexualism — a person having a strong desire to assume the physical characteristics and gender role of the opposite sex.
- treponematosis — an infection caused by an organism of the genus Treponema, as syphilis, pinta, bejel, or yaws.
- tridimensional — having three dimensions.
- tripersonalism — the doctrine of three persons making up the Trinity
- trumpeter swan — a large, pure-white, wild swan, Cygnus buccinator, of North America, having a sonorous cry: once near extinction, the species is now recovering.
- turnkey system — Computers. a computer system purchased from hardware and software vendors, customized and put in working order by a firm that then sells the completed system to the client that ordered it.
- tymshare, inc. — (company) The US company that created the TYMNET network.
- ultramasculine — extremely masculine
- umbrella stand — an upright rack or stand for umbrellas
- unadministered — to manage (affairs, a government, etc.); have executive charge of: to administer the law.
- undemonstrable — not able to be made evident
- under-consumed — to destroy or expend by use; use up.
- underemphasize — to give less than sufficient emphasis to; minimize.
- understatement — the act or an instance of understating, or representing in a weak or restrained way that is not borne out by the facts: The journalist wrote that the earthquake had caused some damage. This turned out to be a massive understatement of the devastation.
- universal beam — a broad-flanged rolled steel joist suitable for a stanchion (axial load) or beam (bending load)
- universal mill — a rolling mill having both horizontal and vertical rolls.
- universal time — (time, standard) (UT) The mean solar time along the prime meridian (0 longitude) that runs through the Greenwich Observatory outside of London, UK, where the current system originated. UT is tied to the rotation of the Earth in respect to the fictitious "mean Sun". There are three separate definitions, UT0, UT1, and UT2, depending on which corrections have been applied to the Earth's motion. Coordinated Universal Time is kept within 0.9 seconds of UT1, by addition of leap seconds to International Atomic Time.
- unmaterialised — not materialised
- unpresumptuous — not presumptuous; modest
- unremorsefully — in an unremorseful or impenitent manner
- unsectarianism — the state or quality of being unsectarian
- unsurmountable — to mount upon; get on the top of; mount upon and cross over: to surmount a hill.
- untransmutable — intransmutable
- uranium series — the radioactive series that starts with uranium 238 and ends with a stable isotope of lead of mass number 206.
- vestmannaeyjar — a group of 14 small Icelandic islands off the S coast of Iceland.
- vickers number — a numerical expression of the hardness of a metal as determined by a test (Vickers test) in which the sample is indented under a known pressure by the point of a diamond and the surface area of the indentation is divided into the amount of pressure applied.
- visiting terms — a degree of acquaintance in which you know someone well enough to visit
- water moccasin — the cottonmouth.
- west glamorgan — a county in S Wales. 315 sq. mi. (815 sq. km).
- western empire — the western portion of the Roman Empire after its division, a.d. 395, which became extinct a.d. 476.
- western omelet — an omelet prepared with diced green peppers, onions, and ham.
- winter jasmine — a shrub, Jasminum nudiflorum, of China, having winter-blooming, yellow flowers.
- with open arms — the upper limb of the human body, especially the part extending from the shoulder to the wrist.
- woman suffrage — the right of women to vote; female suffrage.
- women's centre — a centre providing medical or social services for women
- women's libber — a movement to combat sexual discrimination and to gain full legal, economic, vocational, educational, and social rights and opportunities for women, equal to those of men.
- women's refuge — a house where battered women and their children can go for protection from their oppressors
- women's rights — the rights, claimed by and for women, of equal privileges and opportunities with men
- yeoman service — excellent service
- young marrieds — young married people