15-letter words containing m, u, d, l
- edmund randolph — A(sa) Philip, 1889–1979, U.S. labor leader: president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters 1925–68.
- edriophthalmous — (of certain crustaceans) having stalkless eyes
- embalming fluid — a liquid used to treat a dead body, which contains preservatives to retard putrefaction
- eudiometrically — By means of or in terms of eudiometry.
- excluded middle — the principle that every proposition is either true or false, so that there is no third truth-value and no statements lack truth-value
- ferromolybdenum — a ferroalloy containing up to 60 percent molybdenum.
- field ambulance — a mobile medical unit that accepts casualties from forward units, treating the lightly wounded and stabilizing the condition of the seriously wounded before evacuating them to a hospital
- flannel-mouthed — speaking thickly, as if one's mouth were full of flannel
- flavourdynamics — as in quantum flavour dynamics, a mathematical model used to describe the interaction of flavoured particles (weak force) through the exchange of intermediate vector bosons
- fluid mechanics — an applied science dealing with the basic principles of gaseous and liquid matter.
- flying dutchman — a legendary Dutch ghost ship supposed to be seen at sea, especially near the Cape of Good Hope.
- food supplement — a substance designed to make up for a deficiency in one's diet
- formation fluid — Formation fluid is fluid in the pores (=tiny holes) of a rock.
- foundationalism — (epistemology) The doctrine that beliefs derive justification from certain basic beliefs.
- fundamental law — the organic law of a state, especially its constitution.
- fundamentalists — Plural form of fundamentalist.
- fundamentalness — The state or condition of being fundamental; essential importance.
- gerald mulligan — Gerald Joseph ("Gerry"; "Jeru") 1927–96, U.S. jazz saxophonist, bandleader, and composer.
- guild socialism — a form of socialism developed in England in the 20th century, emphasizing decentralization of industry and services with control to be vested in autonomous guilds of workers.
- hamamelidaceous — belonging to the Hamamelidaceae, the witch hazel family of plants.
- homochlamydeous — (of a plant) having a perianth in which the sepals and petals are fused together and indistinguishable
- hurdle champion — a hurdler who has defeated all others in a competition
- hydraulic motor — a motor that converts the kinetic or potential energy of a fluid into mechanical energy.
- hydrometallurgy — the technique or process of extracting metals at ordinary temperatures by leaching ore with liquid solvents.
- immunomodulator — a substance that affects the functioning of the immune system
- in the doldrums — miserable, depressed
- indian mulberry — a small tree, Morinda citrifolia, of the madder family, found from India to Australasia, having shiny leaves, white flowers, and fleshy, yellowish fruit, yielding red and yellow dyes.
- infundibuliform — having the shape of a funnel; funnel-shaped.
- intermodulation — the production in an electrical device of frequencies that are the sums or differences of frequencies of different inputs or of their harmonics.
- judicial murder — the unjustified execution of the death penalty
- lambda calculus — a formalized description of functions and the way in which they combine, developed by Alonzo Church and used in the theory of certain high-level programming languages
- lambda-calculus — (mathematics) (Normally written with a Greek letter lambda). A branch of mathematical logic developed by Alonzo Church in the late 1930s and early 1940s, dealing with the application of functions to their arguments. The pure lambda-calculus contains no constants - neither numbers nor mathematical functions such as plus - and is untyped. It consists only of lambda abstractions (functions), variables and applications of one function to another. All entities must therefore be represented as functions. For example, the natural number N can be represented as the function which applies its first argument to its second N times (Church integer N). Church invented lambda-calculus in order to set up a foundational project restricting mathematics to quantities with "effective procedures". Unfortunately, the resulting system admits Russell's paradox in a particularly nasty way; Church couldn't see any way to get rid of it, and gave the project up. Most functional programming languages are equivalent to lambda-calculus extended with constants and types. Lisp uses a variant of lambda notation for defining functions but only its purely functional subset is really equivalent to lambda-calculus. See reduction.
- landeshauptmann — the head of government in an Austrian state
- leaf primordium — a group of cells that will develop into a leaf, seen as small bulges just below the shoot apex.
- liberal judaism — Reform Judaism.
- lord of misrule — (in England) a person formerly chosen to direct the Christmas revels and sports.
- lymphoid tissue — of, relating to, or resembling lymph.
- macroprudential — Of or pertaining to systemic prudence, especially to the strengths and vulnerabilities of financial systems.
- magna cum laude — with great praise: used in diplomas to grant the next-to-highest of three special honors for grades above the average.
- maldistribution — bad or unsatisfactory distribution, as of wealth, among a population or members of a group.
- mass-producible — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
- medical student — trainee doctor
- medical studies — a course of study leading to qualification as a doctor of medicine
- medical tourism — tourist travel for the purpose of receiving medical treatment or improving health or fitness: The spiraling cost of healthcare has contributed to the growth of medical tourism. Also called health tourism.
- medicine bundle — a wrapped package of items used by some North American Indians for religious or ceremonial purposes.
- medullary canal — the central area of a bone, containing marrow
- medulloblastoma — (oncology) A malignant type of brain tumour that originates in the cerebellum.
- mid-lent sunday — Laetare Sunday.
- modal auxiliary — Grammar. any of the group of English auxiliary verbs, including can, could, may, might, shall, should, will, would, and must, that are used with the base form of another verb to express distinctions of mood.
- modern language — one of the literary languages currently in use in Europe, as French, Spanish, or German, treated as a departmental course of study in a school, college, or university.