13-letter words containing m, u, r, e
- documentarize — to put in the form of a documentary
- dog's mercury — a hairy somewhat poisonous euphorbiaceous perennial, Mercurialis perennis, having broad lanceolate toothed leaves and small greenish male and female flowers, the males borne in catkins. It often carpets shady woodlands
- dolly mixture — a mixture of small coloured sweets
- drama student — a student who is training to become an actor
- dress uniform — U.S. Air Force. a uniform consisting of the coat and trousers of the service uniform, with a white shirt and black bow tie, worn for formal occasions.
- dromaeosaurid — A carnivorous bipedal dinosaur of a late Cretaceous family that included deinonychus and the velociraptors. They had a large slashing claw on each hind foot.
- drug smuggler — trafficker in illegal substances
- drum magazine — a receptacle that holds and feeds cartridges to a submachine gun or light machine gun.
- drum paneling — flush paneling in a door.
- drummondville — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- dumb terminal — (hardware) A type of terminal that consists of a keyboard and a display screen that can be used to enter and transmit data to, or display data from, a computer to which it is connected. A dumb terminal, in contrast to an intelligent terminal, has no independent processing capability or auxiliary storage and thus cannot function as a stand-alone device. The dumbest kind of terminal is a glass tty. The next step up has a minimally addressable cursor but no on-screen editing or other features normally supported by an intelligent terminal. Once upon a time, when glass ttys were common and addressable cursors were something special, what is now called a dumb terminal could pass for a smart terminal.
- dumfriesshire — Also called Dumfriesshire [duhm-frees-sheer, -sher] /dʌmˈfrisˌʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). a historic county in S Scotland.
- e-recruitment — the practice of using Internet or electronic resources to recruit new employees, as by searching online résumé databases.
- eccremocarpus — any plant of the evergreen climbing genus Eccremocarpus, esp E. scaber, grown for its decorative pinnate foliage and bright orange-red bell flowers: family Bignoniaceae
- edinburgh sml — (EdML) Implementation of the Core language of SML. Byte-code interpreter in C. Ported to Amiga, Atari, Archimedes and IBM PC. Version: 0.44. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- edmund andros — Sir Edmund, 1637–1714, British governor in the American colonies, 1686–89, 1692–98.
- edmund gunter — Edmund, 1581–1626, English mathematician and astronomer: inventor of various measuring instruments and scales.
- empty quarter — a desert in S Arabia, N of Hadhramaut and extending from Yemen to Oman. About 250,000 sq. mi. (647,500 sq. km).
- empyreumatise — to render empyreumatic
- empyreumatize — to infect or spoil with empyreuma
- encouragement — The action of giving someone support, confidence, or hope.
- encumbrancers — Plural form of encumbrancer.
- endeavourment — the act of endeavouring
- enumerability — The condition of being enumerable.
- equestrianism — The skill or sport of horse riding . As an Olympic sport it is divided into three disciplines: show jumping, dressage, and the three-day event (combining show jumping, dressage, and cross-country riding).
- equimolecular — (chemistry) Containing the same number of molecules (of two or more compounds).
- erythematosus — (pathology) An eruption of red lesions.
- eureka moment — a moment at which a person realizes or solves something
- eurocommunism — the policies, doctrines, and practices of Communist Parties in Western Europe in the 1970s and 1980s, esp those rejecting democratic centralism and favouring nonalignment with the Soviet Union and China
- exploratorium — A museum or similar institution that encourages visitors to explore the exhibits in a hands-on manner.
- farm labourer — a person engaged in physical work on a farm
- farmer's lung — a lung disorder caused by inhalation of moldy hay dust, marked by shortness of breath, dry cough, and weight loss.
- felony murder — a killing treated as a murder because, though unintended, it occurred during the commission or attempted commission of a felony, as robbery.
- fermentitious — of a fermenting nature
- ferroaluminum — a ferroalloy containing up to 80 percent aluminum.
- ferrochromium — a ferroalloy containing up to 70 percent chromium.
- ferrotitanium — a ferroalloy containing up to 45 percent titanium.
- ferrovanadium — a ferroalloy containing up to 55 percent vanadium.
- filibusterism — (dated) Piracy, freebooting; the waging of unauthorised war.
- fish geranium — zonal geranium.
- flight number — the identifying number of a scheduled flight
- flunitrazepam — a powerful benzodiazepine sedative, C 16 H 12 FN 3 O 3 , that causes semiconsciousness and memory blackouts: has been implicated in date rapes and is illegal in the U.S.
- fluorochromes — Plural form of fluorochrome.
- force majeure — an unexpected and disruptive event that may operate to excuse a party from a contract.
- fort moultrie — William, 1730–1805, U.S. general.
- foul-tempered — frequently and unnecessarily sullen or angry
- four horsemen — four riders on white, red, black, and pale horses symbolizing pestilence, war, famine, and death, respectively. Rev. 6:2–8.
- foursome reel — a lively Scottish dance for two couples who combine in square and circular formations
- froude number — a dimensionless number used in hydrodynamics for model simulation of actual conditions
- fruit machine — gambling: slot machine