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13-letter words containing m, u, d, t

  • film industry — all the companies, studios, people etc involved in making commercial films collectively
  • foul-tempered — frequently and unnecessarily sullen or angry
  • full-bottomed — (of a wig) long at the back
  • fundamentally — serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying: fundamental principles; the fundamental structure.
  • glutamic acid — an amino acid, HOOCCH 2 CH 2 CH(NH 2)COOH, obtained by hydrolysis from wheat gluten and sugar-beet residues, used commercially chiefly in the form of its sodium salt to intensify the flavor of meat or other food. Symbol: E. Abbreviation: Glu;
  • haemodilution — an increase in the fluid content of blood leading to a lower concentration of red blood cells
  • hand-to-mouth — offering or providing the barest livelihood, sustenance, or support; meager; precarious: a hand-to-mouth existence.
  • 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.
  • humboldt peak — a mountain in S Colorado, in the Sangre de Cristo range. 14,064 feet (4290 meters).
  • humped cattle — any of several breeds of domestic cattle developed from the Indian species Bos indicus and characterized by a hump of fat and muscle over the shoulders.
  • humpty dumpty — an egg-shaped character in a Mother Goose nursery rhyme that fell off a wall and could not be put together again.
  • humpty-dumpty — an egg-shaped character in a Mother Goose nursery rhyme that fell off a wall and could not be put together again.
  • 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.
  • indian mutiny — a revolt of the sepoy troops in British India (1857–59), resulting in the transfer of the administration of India from the East India Company to the crown.
  • 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.
  • industrialism — an economic organization of society built largely on mechanized industry rather than agriculture, craftsmanship, or commerce.
  • introducement — (obsolete) introduction.
  • judgementally — Alternative form of judgmentally.
  • judgmatically — in the manner of a judge
  • judgment book — the book from which all persons will be judged at the Last Judgment, containing a full record of their acts.
  • judgment call — Sports. an observational ruling by a referee or umpire that is necessarily subjective because of the disputable nature of the play in question, and one that may be appealed but not protested, as opposed to a matter of official rule interpretation: Balks and close plays at first are of course judgment calls, and umpires are human.
  • judgment debt — Law. a debt established or confirmed by decree of a court of law.
  • judgment note — Law. a note that expressly authorizes a creditor, in case of default, to seek a judgment in court without notifying the debtor.
  • judgmentalism — Judgmental behaviour or attitude.
  • 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.
  • lacrimal duct — either of two small ducts extending from the inner corner of each eyelid to the lacrimal sac.
  • last judgment — judgment (def 8).
  • lithium oxide — a white powder, Li 2 O, with strong alkaline properties: used in ceramics and glass.
  • macadamia nut — edible seed
  • magnetic drum — a cylinder coated with magnetic material, on which data and programs can be stored.
  • magnitudinous — size; extent; dimensions: to determine the magnitude of an angle.
  • maladjustment — bad or unsatisfactory adjustment.
  • malfunctioned — Simple past tense and past participle of malfunction.
  • match-funding — the stipulation set by a grant-providing body that the recipients of a grant raise a certain percentage of the money they require, generally a sum more or less equal to that of the sum of money being granted
  • meadow beauty — any of several North American plants of the genus Rhexia, especially R. mariana or R. virginica, having showy rose-pink flowers with eight prominent bright yellow stamens.
  • mealy-mouthed — avoiding the use of direct and plain language, as from timidity, excessive delicacy, or hypocrisy; inclined to mince words; insincere, devious, or compromising.
  • mean latitude — the latitude of the point that is midway between two parallels on the same side of the equator.
  • meat products — foods that consist of or contain meat
  • media studies — educational subjects or courses relating to the mass media
  • medical audit — a review of the professional standards of doctors, usually within a hospital, conducted by a medical committee
  • medicamentous — of or relating to medicaments
  • medium octavo — a size of book, about 6 × 9½ inches (15 × 24 cm), untrimmed. Abbreviation: medium 8vo.
  • medium quarto — a size of book, about 9½ × 12 inches (24 × 30 cm), untrimmed. Abbreviation: medium 4to.
  • metatoluidine — a colorless, slightly water-soluble liquid, C 7 H 9 N, the meta isomer of toluidine, used in the manufacture of dyes and other organic compounds.
  • midnight blue — Something that is midnight blue is a very dark blue colour, almost black.
  • midterm blues — the tendency of electorate to grow disillusioned with government around halfway through its term of office
  • milk products — dairy produce, items made with milk
  • misadjustment — Wrong or unsuitable adjustment.
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