15-letter words containing m, u, s, i
- peruvian balsam — Peru balsam.
- photojournalism — journalism in which photography dominates written copy, as in certain magazines.
- plagiostomatous — plagiostome
- plumbaginaceous — belonging to the Plumbaginaceae, the leadwort family of plants.
- plumbers-friend — Machinery. a pistonlike reciprocating part moving within the cylinder of a pump or hydraulic device.
- positive column — the luminous region between the Faraday dark space and the anode glow in a vacuum tube, occurring when the pressure is low.
- posse comitatus — the body of persons that a peace officer of a county is empowered to call upon for assistance in preserving the peace, making arrests, and serving writs.
- poststimulation — occurring after stimulation
- poststimulatory — following stimulation
- pre-consumption — the act of consuming, as by use, decay, or destruction.
- premier danseur — the leading male dancer in a ballet company.
- prerequirements — that which is required; a thing demanded or obligatory: One of the requirements of the job is accuracy.
- primary insurer — A primary insurer is the insurance company that first sells insurance to a client, who later purchases reinsurance.
- primordial soup — the seas and atmosphere as they existed on earth before the existence of life, consisting primarily of an oxygen-free gaseous mixture containing chiefly water, hydrogen, methane, ammonia, and carbon dioxide.
- prism binocular — Usually, prism binoculars. Optics. binocular (def 1).
- programme music — music that is intended to depict or evoke a scene or idea
- proscenium arch — the arch separating the stage from the auditorium
- pseudo-academic — of or relating to a college, academy, school, or other educational institution, especially one for higher education: academic requirements.
- pseudo-bohemian — living a wandering or vagabond life, as a Gypsy.
- pseudo-chemical — of, used in, produced by, or concerned with chemistry or chemicals: a chemical formula; chemical agents.
- pseudo-dramatic — of or relating to the drama.
- pseudo-medieval — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or in the style of the Middle Ages: medieval architecture. Compare Middle Ages.
- pseudo-military — of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces, often as distinguished from the navy: from civilian to military life.
- pseudo-romantic — of, relating to, or of the nature of romance; characteristic or suggestive of the world of romance: a romantic adventure.
- pseudomutuality — a relationship between two persons in which conflict of views or opinions is solved by simply ignoring it
- pubic symphysis — the fixed joint at the front of the pelvic girdle where the halves of the pubis meet.
- pure and simple — sheer, utter
- purslane family — the plant family Portulacaceae, characterized by chiefly herbaceous plants having simple, often fleshy leaves, sometimes showy flowers, and capsular fruit, and including bitterroot, purslane, red maids, rose moss, and spring beauty.
- pusillanimously — lacking courage or resolution; cowardly; faint-hearted; timid.
- quartermistress — the female equivalent of a quartermaster
- quasi-automatic — having the capability of starting, operating, moving, etc., independently: an automatic sprinkler system; an automatic car wash.
- quasi-permanent — existing perpetually; everlasting, especially without significant change.
- question master — quizmaster.
- quite something — a remarkable or noteworthy thing or person
- quotation marks — one of the marks used to indicate the beginning and end of a quotation, in English usually shown as “ at the beginning and ” at the end, or, for a quotation within a quotation, of single marks of this kind, as “He said, ‘I will go.’ ” Frequently, especially in Great Britain, single marks are used instead of double, the latter being then used for a quotation within a quotation.
- redisbursements — the act or an instance of disbursing.
- reed instrument — a wind instrument with a single or double reed, as a saxophone or an oboe.
- residual income — the remaining income (of a business or person) after necessary debts, expenses, etc, have been paid
- resurrectionism — the exhumation and stealing of dead bodies, especially for dissection.
- rheumatism-root — spotted wintergreen.
- riemann surface — a geometric representation of a function of a complex variable in which a multiple-valued function is depicted as a single-valued function on several planes, the planes being connected at some of the points at which the function takes on more than one value.
- right of asylum — the right of alien fugitives to protection or nonextradition in a country or its embassy.
- rime suffisante — full rhyme.
- rocky mountains — mountain range in USA and Canada
- rudimentariness — the state or quality of being rudimentary
- rules committee — a special committee of a legislature, as of the U.S. House of Representatives, having the authority to establish rules or methods for expediting legislative action, and usually determining the date a bill is presented for consideration.
- rumpelstiltskin — a dwarf in a German folktale who spins flax into gold for a young woman to meet the demands of the prince she has married, on the condition that she give him her first child or else guess his name: she guesses his name and he vanishes or destroys himself in a rage.
- run-time system — (programming) (RTS, run-time support, run-time) Library code and processes which support software written in a particular language running on a particular platform. The RTS typically deals with details of the interface between the program and the operating system such as system calls, program start-up and termination, and memory management.
- saguia el hamra — the N part of Western Sahara.
- sausage machine — a machine for making sausages