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

  • distributed term — a term applying equally to every member of the class it designates, as doctors in no doctors are overworked
  • diverticulectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of a diverticulum.
  • documentary film — factual, informative film
  • double monastery — a religious community of both men and women who live in separate establishments under the same superior and who worship in a common church.
  • drinking-up time — (in Britain) a short time allowed for finishing drinks before closing time in a public house
  • dumont d'urville — Jules Sébastien César [zhyl sey-bas-tyan sey-zar] /ʒül seɪ basˈtyɛ̃ seɪˈzar/ (Show IPA), 1790–1842, French naval officer: explored South Pacific and Antarctic.
  • duplex apartment — an apartment with rooms on two connected floors.
  • east gwillimbury — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
  • easter communion — the act of receiving communion in church on Easter Day - considered special because of the primacy of Easter among Christian festivals and because many people regard taking Easter communion as a basic token of membership of their church
  • elburz mountains — a mountain range in N Iran, parallel to the SW and S shores of the Caspian Sea. Highest peak: Mount Demavend, 5671 m (18 606 ft)
  • electronic music — music: synthesized
  • embourgeoisement — (chiefly UK) The taking-up of middle-class attitudes or values; bourgeoisification; the process of becoming affluent.
  • emotional labour — work that requires good interpersonal skills
  • emulator program — (networking)   (EP) IBM software that emulates a 2701/2/3 hard-wired IBM 360 communications controller and resides in a 370x/372x/374x comms controller. See also Partitioned Emulation Program (PEP).
  • executive member — a member of an executive committee
  • exhumation order — a legal instruction to exhume a body
  • extemporaneously — In an extemporaneous manner; without prior preparation or planning.
  • feather geranium — a Eurasian weed, Chenopodium botrys, of the amaranth family, having clusters of inconspicuous flowers and unpleasant smelling, lobed leaves.
  • first-time buyer — someone who is buying his or her first house
  • flame cultivator — an implement that kills weeds by scorching them with a directed flow of flaming gas.
  • fluorescent lamp — a tubular electric discharge lamp in which light is produced by the fluorescence of phosphors coating the inside of the tube.
  • for a/one minute — If you say that you do not believe for a minute or for one minute that something is true, you are emphasizing that you do not believe that it is true.
  • four-masted brig — jackass bark (def 2).
  • four-minute mile — a mile-long race run in four minutes or less
  • fourth amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, prohibiting unlawful search and seizure of personal property.
  • fourth dimension — Physics, Mathematics. a dimension in addition to length, width, and depth, used so as to be able to employ geometrical language in discussing phenomena that depend on four variables: Time is considered a fourth dimension for locating points in space-time.
  • freezing mixture — a mixture of two substances, usually salt and ice, to give a temperature below 0°C
  • french community — a cultural and economic association of France, its overseas departments and territories, and former French territories that chose to maintain association after becoming independent republics: formed 1958.
  • full to the brim — If something, especially a container, is filled to the brim or full to the brim with something, it is filled right up to the top.
  • fund supermarket — an online facility offering discounted investment opportunities and advice
  • fundamental star — one of a number of stars with positions that have been determined accurately and that are used as reference stars for the determination of positions of other celestial objects.
  • gaudeamus igitur — let us therefore rejoice
  • general factotum — a person who does all sorts of jobs; general assistant
  • government house — the official residence of a colonial governor, as in a British Commonwealth country.
  • government issue — (often initial capital letter) issued or supplied by the government or one of its agencies.
  • gum up the works — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
  • haymarket square — a square in Chicago: scene of a riot (Haymarket Riot) in 1886 between police and labor unionists.
  • headhunting firm — a recruiting agency
  • heir presumptive — a person who is expected to be the heir but whose expectations may be canceled by the birth of a nearer heir.
  • hematocrit-value — a centrifuge for separating the cells of the blood from the plasma.
  • hemopneumothorax — (medicine) pneumothorax and hemothorax occurring together.
  • hemotherapeutics — hemotherapy.
  • heterometabolous — undergoing development in which the young are born adultlike in form, often maturing without a pupal stage.
  • heteromultimeric — (biochemistry) Describing a protein containing two or more different polypeptide chains.
  • homeric laughter — loud, hearty laughter, as of the gods.
  • hot buttered rum — a drink made with rum, hot water, and sugar, served with a lump of butter in a mug.
  • humboldt current — a cold Pacific Ocean current flowing N along the coasts of Chile and Peru.
  • hydrated alumina — a crystalline, water-insoluble powder, Al(OH) 3 or Al 2 O 3 ⋅3H 2 O, obtained chiefly from bauxite: used in the manufacture of glass, ceramics, and printing inks, in dyeing, and in medicine as an antacid and in the treatment of ulcers.
  • hydration number — the number of molecules of water with which an ion can combine in an aqueous solution of given concentration.
  • hydraulic cement — cement that can solidify under water.
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