14-letter words containing m, u, r, e
- disgruntlement — to put into a state of sulky dissatisfaction; make discontent.
- distemperature — a distempered or disordered condition; disturbance of health, mind, or temper.
- do a number on — a numeral or group of numerals.
- documentarians — Plural form of documentarian.
- domestic court — (in England) a magistrates' court for domestic proceedings, such as matrimonial, guardianship, custodianship, affiliation, or adoption disputes
- double bedroom — a large bedroom
- double drummer — a type of cicada
- double marking — a method of assessment in which two individuals independently mark a test or evaluate a performance
- double measure — A double measure is a drink that is twice the normal measure.
- dowager's hump — a type of kyphosis, common in older women, in which the shoulders become rounded and the upper back develops a hump: caused by osteoporosis resulting in skeletal deformity.
- drop-down menu — pull-down menu
- drum majorette — a girl or woman who leads a marching band or drum corps.
- dummy variable — a variable appearing in a mathematical expression that can be replaced by any arbitrary variable, not occurring in the expression, without affecting the value of the whole
- dutch reformed — of or relating to a Protestant denomination (Dutch Reformed Church) founded by Dutch settlers in New York in 1628 and renamed the Reformed Church in America in 1867.
- dysequilibrium — Alternative form of disequilibrium.
- eleutheromania — A great desire for or obsession with freedom.
- elevator music — recorded popular music played in the background in public places such as elevators, variously regarded as being bland, monotonous, etc.
- emergency fund — a sum of money set aside by a country, group, or organization for use in an emergency
- empire-builder — a person who seeks extra power for its own sake, esp by increasing the number of his subordinates or staff
- emprosthotonus — (medicine) A condition in which the body is bent sharply forward.
- encouragements — Plural form of encouragement.
- euclidean norm — (mathematics) The most common norm, calculated by summing the squares of all coordinates and taking the square root. This is the essence of Pythagoras's theorem. In the infinite-dimensional case, the sum is infinite or is replaced with an integral when the number of dimensions is uncountable.
- excommunicator — One who excommunicates.
- exposure meter — photography: light meter
- extemporaneous — Spoken or done without preparation.
- family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
- fancy geranium — a geranium, Pelargonium domesticum, of southern Africa, having roundish clusters of large white, pink, or red flowers.
- fanum fortunae — ancient name of Fano.
- farmhouse loaf — a large white loaf, baked in a tin, with slightly curved sides and top
- ferrozirconium — a ferroalloy containing up to 40 percent zirconium.
- field mushroom — any of various fleshy fungi including the toadstools, puffballs, coral fungi, morels, etc.
- flame-coloured — having a strong reddish-orange colour
- flash spectrum — the emission spectrum of the chromosphere of the sun, which dominates the solar spectrum in the seconds just before and after a total solar eclipse.
- fluorochemical — a chemical compound containing fluorine.
- foramen magnum — the large opening in the base of the skull forming the passage from the cranial cavity to the spinal canal.
- foraminiferous — Having small openings, or foramina.
- formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
- founder member — A founder member of a club, group, or organization is one of the first members, often one who was involved in setting it up.
- four-four time — a form of simple quadruple time in which there are four crotchets to the bar, indicated by the time signature 44
- framing square — a steel square usually having on its faces various tables and scales useful to the carpenter.
- free churchman — (sometimes initial capital letters) a member of a free church.
- french mustard — a mild mustard paste made with vinegar rather than water
- frenet formula — one of a set of formulas for finding the curvature and torsion of a plane or space curve in terms of vectors tangent or normal to the curve.
- futures market — a market in which futures contracts in commodities are traded.
- gamine haircut — a boyish or elfish hairstyle, esp on a woman
- garcia marquez — Gabriel [gey-bree-uh l,, gah-bree-el;; Spanish gah-vree-el] /ˈgeɪ bri əl,, ˌgɑ briˈɛl;; Spanish ˌgɑ vriˈɛl/ (Show IPA), 1927–2014, Colombian novelist and short-story writer: Nobel Prize 1982.
- generic markup — (text) In computerised document preparation, a method of adding information to the text indicating the logical components of a document, such as paragraphs, headers or footnotes. SGML is an example of such a system. Specific instructions for layout of the text on the page do not appear in the markup.
- george pullman — plural Pullmans. a railroad sleeping car or parlor car.
- gerald sussman — (person) (Gerald J. Sussman, Jerry) A noted hacker at MIT and one of the developers of SCHEME and 6.001.
- gewurztraminer — a type of white grape used in winemaking.