15-letter words containing m, u, t, e, l
- conventual mass — the Mass celebrated daily in a convent church for all members of the conventual community.
- costume jewelry — Costume jewelry is jewelry made from cheap materials.
- coulometrically — in a coulometric manner
- counterclaimant — a claim made to offset another claim, especially one made by the defendant in a legal action.
- counterclaiming — Present participle of counterclaim.
- counterexamples — Plural form of counterexample.
- countermandable — able to be countermanded
- critical volume — the volume occupied by one mole or unit mass of a substance in its critical state
- cucumber beetle — any leaf beetle of the genus Diabrotica and related genera that feeds on cucumbers and other plants of the gourd family and is a vector of cucurbit wilt.
- culture complex — a group of culture traits all interrelated and dominated by one essential trait: Nationalism is a culture complex.
- culture jamming — a form of political and social activism which, by means of fake adverts, hoax news stories, pastiches of company logos and product labels, computer hacking, etc, draws attention to and at the same time subverts the power of the media, governments, and large corporations to control and distort the information that they give to the public in order to promote consumerism, militarism, etc
- current limiter — a device, as a resistor or fuse, that limits the flow of current to a prescribed amount, independent of the voltage applied.
- customer appeal — attractiveness to customers
- cuticle remover — a substance used to remove the cuticle from around the base of one's nails
- cytomegalovirus — a virus of the herpes virus family that may cause serious disease in patients whose immune systems are compromised
- demulsification — to break down (an emulsion) into separate substances incapable of re-forming the emulsion that was broken down.
- demutualization — Demutualization is a situation in which a mutually owned company such as an insurance company changes into a public company that issues stock.
- deuteranomalous — having deuteranomaly; relating to deuteranomaly
- dimethylsulfide — Alternative spelling of dimethyl sulfide.
- discombobulated — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
- discombobulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discombobulate.
- disillusionment — to free from or deprive of illusion, belief, idealism, etc.; disenchant.
- documentational — the use of documentary evidence.
- draft-mule work — drudgery
- dumdum (bullet) — a soft-nosed bullet that expands when it hits, inflicting a large, jagged wound
- eastern rumelia — an autonomous province in the Balkan peninsula, part of the Ottoman Empire, ceded in 1885 to Bulgaria
- edriophthalmous — (of certain crustaceans) having stalkless eyes
- eleutheromaniac — Having a passionate mania for freedom.
- equalitarianism — Egalitarianism.
- ethnomusicology — The study of the music of different cultures, especially non-Western ones.
- eudiometrically — By means of or in terms of eudiometry.
- euphemistically — In a euphemistic manner.
- flannel-mouthed — speaking thickly, as if one's mouth were full of flannel
- food supplement — a substance designed to make up for a deficiency in one's diet
- formal argument — (programming) (Or "parameter") A name in a function or subroutine definition that is replaced by, or bound to, the corresponding actual argument when the function or subroutine is called. In many languages formal arguments behave like local variables which get initialised on entry. See: argument.
- formation rules — the set of rules that specify the syntax of a formal system; the algorithm that generates the well-formed formulae
- full employment — all of workforce is employed
- fundamental law — the organic law of a state, especially its constitution.
- fundamentalists — Plural form of fundamentalist.
- fundamentalness — The state or condition of being fundamental; essential importance.
- get one's lumps — a piece or mass of solid matter without regular shape or of no particular shape: a lump of coal.
- gluteus maximus — the broad, thick, outermost muscle of the buttocks, involved in the rotation and extension of the thigh.
- gluteus minimus — the innermost muscle of the buttocks, involved in the abduction and rotation of the thigh.
- gram equivalent — the combining power, especially in grams (gram equivalent) of an element or compound, equivalent to hydrogen as a standard of 1.00797 or oxygen as a standard of 8; the atomic weight divided by the valence.
- haemagglutinate — to cause the clumping of red blood cells in (a blood sample)
- have to lump it — If you say that someone will have to lump it, you mean that they must accept a situation or decision whether they like it or not.
- hermeneutically — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
- heterosexualism — Discrimination of non-heterosexual people on the basis of their sexual orientation.
- homosexualities — Plural form of homosexuality.
- hopeful monster — a hypothetical individual organism that, by means of a fortuitous macromutation permitting an adaptive shift to a new mode of life, becomes the founder of a new type of organism and a vehicle of macroevolution.