13-letter words containing m, e, r, u, t
- gastrocnemius — the largest muscle in the calf of the leg, the action of which extends the foot, raises the heel, and assists in bending the knee.
- glutamatergic — (biochemistry, neurology) Of or pertaining to the neurotransmission of glutamate.
- halobacterium — Any of various extremophiles, of genus Halobacterium, found in water saturated or nearly saturated with salt.
- harbourmaster — (British, Canada, nautical) An official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port.
- harvest mouse — an Old World field mouse, Micromys minutus, that builds a spherical nest among the stems of grains and other plants.
- herd immunity — the immunity or resistance to a particular infection that occurs in a group of people or animals when a very high percentage of individuals have been vaccinated or previously exposed to the infection.
- here document — (operating system) Data included in a Unix shell script or Perl script using the "<<" syntax.
- hermeneutical — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
- hermit thrush — a North American thrush, Hylocichla guttata, noted for its complex and appealing song.
- home computer — a personal computer used in the home.
- homeothermous — remaining at an almost constant temperature
- horse's mouth — horse (def 36).
- host computer — the main computer in a network: controls or performs certain functions for other computers.
- housemistress — A female teacher in charge of a dormitory at a boarding school.
- hunter's moon — the first full moon following the harvest moon in late September or early October.
- hymenopterous — belonging or pertaining to the Hymenoptera, an order of insects having, when winged, four membranous wings, and comprising the wasps, bees, ants, ichneumon flies, and sawflies.
- hyperimmunity — the state of being immune from or insusceptible to a particular disease or the like.
- hypermutation — (uncountable) Frequent mutation.
- hyracotherium — eohippus.
- ideal mixture — An ideal mixture is a mixture in which the concentration of any part taken from it is the same as the average for the whole.
- illuminometer — an instrument for measuring illumination.
- immunosorbent — an insoluble surface to which a specific antibody is attached for the purpose of removing the corresponding antigen from a solution or suspension.
- immunotherapy — treatment designed to produce immunity to a disease or enhance the resistance of the immune system to an active disease process, as cancer.
- imperturbable — incapable of being upset or agitated; not easily excited; calm: imperturbable composure.
- imperturbably — incapable of being upset or agitated; not easily excited; calm: imperturbable composure.
- importunately — urgent or persistent in solicitation, sometimes annoyingly so.
- importunities — Plural form of importunity.
- imputrescible — not liable to decomposition or putrefaction; incorruptible: a tanning process to make skins imputrescible.
- incouragement — Archaic form of encouragement.
- indirect jump — (programming) A jump via an indirect address, i.e. the jump instruction contains the address of a memory location that contains the address of the next instruction to execute. The location containing the address to jump to is sometimes called a vector. Indirect jumps make normal code hard to understand because the jump target is a run-time property of the program that depends on the execution history. They are useful for, e.g. allowing user code to replace operating system code or setting up event handlers.
- inductothermy — the production of fever by means of electromagnetic induction.
- inner sanctum — sanctum (def 2).
- instrumentals — Plural form of instrumental.
- instrumenting — Present participle of instrument.
- integumentary — of, relating to, or like an integument.
- intercommunal — used or shared in common by everyone in a group: a communal jug of wine.
- intermountain — located between mountains or mountain ranges: an intermontane lake.
- intermuscular — of or relating to muscle or the muscles: muscular strain.
- interstimulus — being, or relating to, the interval between the occurrence of two stimuli in a psychological experiment
- introducement — (obsolete) introduction.
- kemal ataturk — (Mustafa or Mustapha Kemal"Kemal Pasha") 1881–1938, Turkish general: president of Turkey 1923–38.
- kettledrummer — a drum consisting of a hollow hemisphere of brass, copper, or fiberglass over which is stretched a skin, the tension of which can be modified by hand screws or foot pedals to vary the pitch.
- labour market — When you talk about the labour market, you are referring to all the people who are able to work and want jobs in a country or area, in relation to the number of jobs there are available in that country or area.
- lectisternium — (in ancient Rome) a religious rite in which the images of the gods were placed upon couches around a table, upon which was set a feast
- lepton number — in a process involving elementary particles, the total number of leptons minus the total number of antileptons.
- lever tumbler — a flat metal tumbler in a lock.
- libel tourism — the act of suing a writer for alleged defamation in a foreign jurisdiction where there are weak libel laws.
- line spectrum — an electromagnetic spectrum consisting of discrete lines, usually characteristic of excited atoms or molecules.
- lucifer match — friction match.
- lucretia mott — John Raleigh, 1865–1955, U.S. religious leader: Nobel Peace Prize 1946.