14-letter words containing m, u, r, e
- premenstrually — in a premenstrual manner
- premier league — a professional football or soccer league consisting of the top teams in England and Wales
- premium income — An insurer's premium income is the income that it earns from premiums.
- prerequirement — that which is required; a thing demanded or obligatory: One of the requirements of the job is accuracy.
- presumptuously — full of, characterized by, or showing presumption or readiness to presume in conduct or thought, as by saying or doing something without right or permission.
- primary source — first or highest in rank or importance; chief; principal: his primary goals in life.
- primary tissue — any tissue resulting directly from differentiation of an apical meristem.
- prime computer — (company) (Or "Pr1ME") A minicomputer manufacturer.
- prime the pump — an apparatus or machine for raising, driving, exhausting, or compressing fluids or gases by means of a piston, plunger, or set of rotating vanes.
- proceleusmatic — inciting, animating, or inspiring.
- progametangium — Mycology. the hyphal tip of certain fungi that produces the gametangium and subsequent gamete.
- pronunciamento — a proclamation; manifesto; edict.
- proximity fuse — an electronically triggered device designed to detonate an explosive charge in a missile, etc, at a predetermined distance from the target
- proximity fuze — a design for detonating a charge, as in a projectile, within a predesignated radius of a target.
- pseudomembrane — a tough outer layer found on the surface of the mucous membrane or skin
- pseudomorphism — an irregular or unclassifiable form.
- pseudosymmetry — an apparent symmetry different from that appropriate to a crystal of a given mineral.
- pulmonary tree — the trachea, bronchi, and bronchioles of the lungs, which together resemble an upside-down tree.
- pulmonary vein — a vein conveying oxygenated blood from the lungs to the left atrium of the heart.
- pumice country — volcanic farmland in the North Island
- pumped storage — a system for generating hydroelectric power for peak periods by pumping water from a lower to a higher reservoir during low-demand periods and then releasing it during peak periods.
- purbeck marble — a fossil-rich limestone that takes a high polish: used for building, etc
- pure democracy — a form of democracy in which the laws and policies are made directly by the citizens rather than by representatives.
- purple emperor — any of several Old World nymphalid butterflies of the genus Apatura, esp A. iris, having mottled purple-and-brown wings
- put the arm on — the upper limb of the human body, especially the part extending from the shoulder to the wrist.
- pyrenomycetous — of or relating to the former class Pyrenomycetes of fungi
- pyrometallurgy — the process or technique of refining ores with heat so as to accelerate chemical reactions or to melt the metallic or nonmetallic content.
- quadrigeminate — made up of four parts
- quadrumvirates — Plural form of quadrumvirate.
- quadrupedalism — The condition of being a quadruped.
- quadruple time — a measure consisting of four beats or pulses with accent on the first and third.
- quaker meeting — a meeting of Quakers, at which all members, except those moved to speak, remain silent.
- quantum meruit — as much as he has earned: denoting a payment for goods or services in partial fulfilment of a contract or for those supplied when no price has been agreed
- quantum number — any integer or half of an odd integer that distinguishes one of the discrete states of a quantum-mechanical system.
- quantum theory — any theory predating quantum mechanics that encompassed Planck's radiation formula and a scheme for obtaining discrete energy states for atoms, as Bohr theory.
- quartermasters — Plural form of quartermaster.
- quattrocentism — the 15th-century Italian style of art and literature
- queens problem — eight queens puzzle
- querimoniously — in a querimonious manner
- questionmaster — quizmaster.
- quick-tempered — easily angered.
- quiz programme — a radio or television programme in which the general or specific knowledge of the players is tested by a series of questions
- radio spectrum — the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that includes radio waves.
- radium sulfate — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous, radioactive solid, RaSO 4 , used chiefly in radiotherapy.
- radium therapy — treatment of disease by means of radium.
- raman-spectrum — the change in wavelength of light scattered while passing through a transparent medium, the collection of new wavelengths (Raman spectrum) being characteristic of the scattering medium and differing from the fluorescent spectrum in being much less intense and in being unrelated to an absorption band of the medium.
- random numbers — a number chosen by a random sampling, as from a table (random number table) or generated by a computer.
- re-enumeration — an act of enumerating.
- re-measurement — the act of measuring.
- reaccumulation — act or state of accumulating; state of being accumulated.