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19-letter words containing m, e, r, u

  • triangulum australe — a small bright triangular constellation in the S hemisphere, lying between Ara and the Southern Cross, that contains an open star cluster
  • tricalcium silicate — a component of cement, Ca 3 SiO 5 , also used in food to prevent caking.
  • trisodium phosphate — sodium phosphate (def 3).
  • trouble someone for — to ask someone to pass, hand, give, etc. (something) to one
  • trumpet honeysuckle — an American honeysuckle, Lonicera sempervirens, having spikes of large, tubular flowers, deep-red outside and yellow within.
  • tuamotu archipelago — a group of about 80 coral islands in the S Pacific, in French Polynesia. Pop: 15 973 (2002; including the Gambier Islands). Area: 860 sq km (332 sq miles)
  • turbo-ramjet engine — a combination engine that can be operated as a turbojet or ramjet engine.
  • turn someone's head — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
  • ultracrepidarianism — noting or pertaining to a person who criticizes, judges, or gives advice outside the area of his or her expertise: The play provides a classic, simplistic portrayal of an ultracrepidarian mother-in-law.
  • ultramicrochemistry — the branch of microchemistry dealing with minute quantities of material weighing one microgram or less.
  • unit of measurement — physical quantity
  • unorganized ferment — ferment (def 2).
  • vacuum coffee maker — a coffee pot with upper and lower glass units, the upper for ground coffee and the lower for water that, when boiled, rises through the filter-stoppered bottom of the upper unit and remains there until drawn back down to the lower unit as brewed coffee by a reduction in pressure caused by the removal of heat.
  • versa module europa — (hardware)   (VME) A flexible open-ended bus system which makes use of the Eurocard standard. VME was introduced in 1981 by Motorola, Philips, Thompson, and Mostek. It was intended to be a flexible environment supporting a variety of computing intensive tasks, and has become a rather popular protocol in the computer industry. It is defined by the IEEE standard 1014-1987.
  • vesicular exanthema — an infectious viral disease of swine, characterized by blisters on the snout, mucous membranes, and feet.
  • victor emmanuel iii — 1869–1947, king of Italy 1900–46.
  • volumetric analysis — determination of the concentration, by volume, of a substance in a solution, as by titration.
  • wraparound mortgage — a mortgage, as a second mortgage, that includes payments on a previous mortgage that continues in effect.
  • yeoman of the guard — a member of the bodyguard of the English sovereign, instituted in 1485, which now consists of 100 men, including officers, having purely ceremonial duties.
  • yourdon methodology — (programming)   The software engineering methodology developed by Edward Yourdon and colleagues in the 1970s and 1980s. "Yourdon methodology" is a generic term for all of the following methodologies: Yourdon/Demarco, Yourdon/Constantine, Coad/Yourdon.
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