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15-letter words containing m, u, l, a

  • family business — company owned and run by a family
  • family grouping — a system, used usually in the infant school, of grouping children of various ages together, esp for project work
  • female suffrage — woman suffrage.
  • 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
  • flavoursomeness — Alt form flavorsomeness.
  • fluid mechanics — an applied science dealing with the basic principles of gaseous and liquid matter.
  • fluorochemicals — Plural form of fluorochemical.
  • flying dutchman — a legendary Dutch ghost ship supposed to be seen at sea, especially near the Cape of Good Hope.
  • formal argument — (programming)   (Or "parameter") A name in a function or subroutine definition that is replaced by, or bound to, the corresponding actual argument when the function or subroutine is called. In many languages formal arguments behave like local variables which get initialised on entry. See: argument.
  • formal calculus — an uninterpreted symbolic system whose syntax is precisely defined, and on which a relation of deducibility is defined in purely syntactic terms; a logistic system
  • formal language — correct or polite words and phrases
  • formation fluid — Formation fluid is fluid in the pores (=tiny holes) of a rock.
  • formation rules — the set of rules that specify the syntax of a formal system; the algorithm that generates the well-formed formulae
  • formularization — The act of formularizing; a formularized or formulated statement or exhibition.
  • foundationalism — (epistemology) The doctrine that beliefs derive justification from certain basic beliefs.
  • four-ball match — a match, scored by holes, between two pairs of players, in which the four players tee off and the partners alternate in hitting the pair's ball having the better lie off the tee.
  • full-cream milk — whole unskimmed milk
  • full-moon maple — Japanese maple.
  • fumitory family — the plant family Fumariaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having deeply cut basal or alternate leaves, flowers with four petals of which one or two are spurred or lobed, and fruit in the form of a capsule, and including the bleeding heart, Dutchman's-breeches, fumitory, and squirrel corn.
  • 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.
  • futilitarianism — The belief that all human activity is futile.
  • gerald mulligan — Gerald Joseph ("Gerry"; "Jeru") 1927–96, U.S. jazz saxophonist, bandleader, and composer.
  • geranium family — the plant family Geraniaceae, typified by herbaceous plants or small shrubs having lobed leaves, showy flowers, and slender, beak-shaped fruit, and including the crane's-bills, stork's-bills, and cultivated geraniums of the genus Pelargonium.
  • gluteus maximus — the broad, thick, outermost muscle of the buttocks, involved in the rotation and extension of the thigh.
  • go up in flames — be burned
  • gram equivalent — the combining power, especially in grams (gram equivalent) of an element or compound, equivalent to hydrogen as a standard of 1.00797 or oxygen as a standard of 8; the atomic weight divided by the valence.
  • gram's solution — (sometimes lowercase) a solution of iodine, potassium iodide, and water, used in staining bacteria.
  • 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.
  • haemagglutinate — to cause the clumping of red blood cells in (a blood sample)
  • haemoglobinuria — the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
  • haemoglobinuric — relating to the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
  • hamamelidaceous — belonging to the Hamamelidaceae, the witch hazel family of plants.
  • haulage company — a firm that transports goods by lorry
  • have to lump it — If you say that someone will have to lump it, you mean that they must accept a situation or decision whether they like it or not.
  • hermeneutically — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
  • heterosexualism — Discrimination of non-heterosexual people on the basis of their sexual orientation.
  • homochlamydeous — (of a plant) having a perianth in which the sepals and petals are fused together and indistinguishable
  • homosexualities — Plural form of homosexuality.
  • human relations — the study of group behavior for the purpose of improving interpersonal relationships, as among employees.
  • humpback salmon — a pink salmon inhabiting North Pacific waters: so-called because of the hump that appears behind the head of the male when it is ready for spawning.
  • hung parliament — a parliament that does not have a party with a working majority
  • 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.
  • hypermutability — liable or subject to change or alteration.
  • hypoalbuminemia — an abnormally small quantity of albumin in the blood.
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