16-letter words containing m, e, r, u, t
- texture modifier — a substance that is added to food products to increase viscosity
- thermal neutrons — a neutron with low kinetic energy, especially one slowed by the moderator in a nuclear reactor.
- thermoregulation — the regulation of body temperature.
- three musketeers — French Les Trois Mousquetaires. a historical novel (1844) by Alexandre Dumas père.
- through the mill — a factory for certain kinds of manufacture, as paper, steel, or textiles.
- through-composed — having different music for each verse: a through-composed song. Compare strophic (def 2).
- tiananmen square — a large plaza in central Beijing, China: noted especially as the site of major student demonstrations in 1989 suppressed by the government.
- tienanmen square — Tiananmen Square.
- to come a gutzer — to make an error or blunder
- torsion pendulum — a pendulum the weight of which is rotated alternately in opposite directions through a horizontal plane by the torsion of the suspending rod or spring: used for clocks intended to run a long time between windings.
- transport number — that fraction of the total electric current that anions and cations carry in passing through an electrolytic solution.
- tsushima current — a warm ocean current flowing northward along the west coast of Japan.
- ultra-liberalism — extremely liberal, especially in politics.
- ultraminiaturize — to reduce to an ultraminiature size or scale.
- under sb's thumb — If you are under someone's thumb, you are under their control, or very heavily influenced by them.
- under the hammer — a tool consisting of a solid head, usually of metal, set crosswise on a handle, used for beating metals, driving nails, etc.
- under-employment — employed at a job that does not fully use one's skills or abilities.
- 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.
- undercompensated — to compensate or pay less than is fair, customary, or expected.
- underconsumption — the act of consuming, as by use, decay, or destruction.
- undernourishment — If someone is suffering from undernourishment, they have poor health because they are not eating enough food or are eating the wrong kind of food.
- unmarried mother — a woman who has a baby while she is not married
- upper atmosphere — the portion of the atmosphere above the troposphere.
- uranium trioxide — a radioactive orange powder, UO 3 , used in the manufacture of some ceramics.
- ureterolithotomy — incision of a ureter for removal of a calculus.
- vertebral column — spinal column.
- visible spectrum — the range of wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation that is normally visible, from 380 to 760 nm.
- 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
- wind instruments — a musical instrument sounded by the breath or other air current, as the trumpet, trombone, clarinet, or flute.
- without ceremony — in a casual or informal manner
- write home about — a house, apartment, or other shelter that is the usual residence of a person, family, or household.