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14-letter words containing m, u, r, e

  • miller's thumb — any of several small, freshwater sculpins of the genus Cottus, of Europe and North America.
  • miller's-thumb — any of several small, freshwater sculpins of the genus Cottus, of Europe and North America.
  • milling cutter — any of various rotating toothed cutters used in a milling machine to cut or shape metal parts
  • miniature golf — a game or amusement modeled on golf and played with a putter and golf ball, in which each very short, grassless “hole” constitutes an obstacle course, consisting of wooden alleys, tunnels, bridges, etc., through which the ball must be driven to hole it.
  • mirabile dictu — wonderful to relate; amazing to say
  • miraculousness — performed by or involving a supernatural power or agency: a miraculous cure.
  • misadventurous — (obsolete) unfortunate.
  • misconstructed — Simple past tense and past participle of misconstruct.
  • misgovernaunce — misgovernment
  • mismeasurement — an inaccurate or incorrect measurement
  • missouri river — a state in the central United States. 69,674 sq. mi. (180,455 sq. km). Capital: Jefferson City. Abbreviation: MO (for use with zip code), Mo.
  • misunderstands — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misunderstand.
  • mixed foursome — a foursome of two teams, each comprised of a man and a woman.
  • mockumentaries — Plural form of mockumentary.
  • modus operandi — mode of operating or working.
  • molecular beam — a stream of molecules freed from a substance, usually a salt, by evaporation and then passed through a narrow slit for focusing, for investigating the properties of nuclei, atoms, and molecules.
  • molecular film — a film or layer one molecule thick.
  • molly maguires — a secret society organized in Ireland in 1843 to terrorize landlords' agents in order to prevent evictions
  • money-grubbing — a person who is aggressively engaged in or preoccupied with making or saving money.
  • money-purchase — relating to a pension scheme in which both employer and employee make contributions to a fund that is used to buy an annuity on retirement. The amount paid as a pension depends on the size of the fund
  • mononeuropathy — A neuropathy that affects only a single nerve (as distinguished from polyneuropathy).
  • monounsaturate — a monounsaturated fat or fatty acid, as olive oil.
  • mother country — the country of one's birth or ancestry.
  • mother hubbard — a full, loose gown, usually fitted at the shoulders, worn by women.
  • mother-fucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
  • mother-out-law — the mother of one's ex-husband or ex-wife
  • motion capture — a process by which a device can be used to capture patterns of live movement; the data is then transmitted to a computer, where simulation software displays it applied to a virtual actor
  • motion picture — a sequence of consecutive pictures of objects photographed in motion by a specially designed camera (motion-picture camera) and thrown on a screen by a projector (motion-picture projector) in such rapid succession as to give the illusion of natural movement.
  • mound builders — a member of any of the early American Indian peoples who built the burial mounds, fortifications, and other earthworks found in the Midwest and the Southwest
  • mount prospect — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • mount rushmore — Mount, a peak in the Black Hills of South Dakota that is a memorial (Mount Rushmore National Memorial) having 60-foot (18-meter) busts of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt, carved into its face between 1927 and 1941, from a design by and under the direction of Gutzon Borglum. 5600 feet (1707 meters).
  • mount wrangell — a mountain in S Alaska, in the W Wrangell Mountains. Height: 4269 m (14 005 ft)
  • mountain range — series or chain of mountains
  • mountaineering — The sport or activity of climbing mountains.
  • mourning bride — a plant, Scabiosa atropurpurea, native to Europe, cultivated for its purple, reddish, or white flowers.
  • mouth-watering — very appetizing in appearance, aroma, or description: a mouth-watering dessert.
  • moving picture — A moving picture is a film.
  • much-travelled — A much-travelled person has travelled a lot in foreign countries.
  • muddle through — to mix up in a confused or bungling manner; jumble.
  • mulching mower — a lawn mower that shreds blades of grass into very small pieces that are left on the lawn to decay and return moisture and nutrients to the soil
  • multarticulate — having multiple joints
  • multi-cultures — the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc.
  • multi-part key — compound key
  • multi-personal — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
  • multibarrelled — (of a gun) having more than one barrel
  • multichambered — comprising or involving several chambers
  • multicharacter — (of a book, play, film, etc) involving or relating to several characters
  • multicollinear — Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting multicollinearity.
  • multielectrode — having or involving several electrodes
  • multifrequency — Of or pertaining to multiple frequencies.
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