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

  • term insurance — an insurance policy that provides coverage for a limited period, the value payable only if a loss occurs within the term, with nothing payable upon its expiration.
  • terminal bonus — a bonus paid on a life insurance policy when the holder reaches a certain age or dies
  • terminus a quo — the end from which; beginning; starting point; earliest limiting point.
  • tetrachotomous — divided into four parts
  • the full monty — something in its entirety
  • the game is up — If you say the game is up, you mean that someone's secret plans or activities have been revealed and therefore must stop because they cannot succeed.
  • the human race — mankind
  • the humanities — the study of literature, philosophy, and the arts
  • the kama sutra — an ancient Hindu text on erotic pleasure and other topics
  • the last trump — the final trumpet call that according to the belief of some will awaken and raise the dead on the Day of Judgment
  • the millennium — the period of a thousand years of Christ's awaited reign upon earth
  • the mujaheddin — (in Afghanistan and Iran) fundamentalist Muslim guerrillas; in Afghanistan in 1992 the mujaheddin overthrew the government but were unable to agree on a constitution due to factional conflict and in 1996 Taliban forces seized power
  • the rheumatics — rheumatic pains
  • the surinamese — the people of Surinam collectively
  • the unemployed — people who are out of work
  • the worm turns — If you say that the worm turns, you mean that someone who usually obeys another person or accepts their bad behaviour unexpectedly starts resisting that person or expresses their anger.
  • theologoumenon — a theological assertion or statement not derived from divine revelation
  • thermoacoustic — pertaining to a method of cooling using air driven with acoustic power.
  • thermojunction — a point of electrical contact between two dissimilar metals across which a voltage appears, the magnitude of which depends on the temperature of the contact and the nature of the metals
  • thermophyllous — relating to deciduous plants or trees that bear leaves only during the warmer times of the year
  • thermoregulate — to maintain regular temperature, esp regular body temperature
  • thesaurismosis — storage disease.
  • thomas younger — Thomas Coleman ("Cole") 1844–1916, U.S. outlaw, associated with Jesse James.
  • thorium series — the radioactive series that starts with thorium and ends with a stable isotope of lead of mass number 208.
  • thymelaeaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Thymelaeaceae, a family of trees and shrubs having tough acrid bark and simple leaves: includes spurge laurel, leatherwood, and mezereon
  • tiger mosquito — a large Asian mosquito, Aedes albopictus, introduced into the southern U.S., that is a vector of dengue and other infectious diseases.
  • timber cruiser — cruiser (def 6).
  • time signature — a numerical or other indication at the beginning of a piece showing the meter.
  • time simulator — (simulation)   (Tsim) A stack-based simulation language. Contact: ZOLA Technologies.
  • time-consuming — (of an action) requiring or wasting much time.
  • titanium white — a pigment used in painting, consisting chiefly of titanium dioxide and noted for its brilliant white color, covering power, and permanence.
  • to make a fuss — If you make a fuss or kick up a fuss about something, you become angry or excited about it and complain.
  • to make fun of — If you make fun of someone or something or poke fun at them, you laugh at them, tease them, or make jokes about them in a way that causes them to seem ridiculous.
  • to the maximum — If you say that someone does something to the maximum, you are emphasizing that they do it to the greatest degree possible.
  • tomato ketchup — sauce made from tomatoes
  • trachyspermous — having seeds with a rough coat.
  • trade unionism — the system, methods, or practice of trade or labor unions.
  • transit number — an identifying number assigned by a banking organization to a bank and printed on its checks.
  • transmasculine — noting or relating to a person who was born female but whose gender identity is more male than female.
  • transsexualism — a person having a strong desire to assume the physical characteristics and gender role of the opposite sex.
  • triple measure — time or rhythm characterized by three beats to the measure with an accent on the first beat.
  • trituberculism — the condition of being trituberculate
  • trumpet flower — any of various plants with pendent flowers shaped like a trumpet.
  • trumpet marine — an obsolete musical instrument having a long, wooden, pyramid-shaped body, characteristically with one string that is touched with the finger to produce harmonics and is bowed between the touching finger and the upper end.
  • trumpet player — a person who plays the trumpet
  • trumpeter swan — a large, pure-white, wild swan, Cygnus buccinator, of North America, having a sonorous cry: once near extinction, the species is now recovering.
  • tumbler switch — electrical control
  • tumorigenicity — (of cells or a substance) capable of producing tumors.
  • tunny emulator — (hardware, cryptography)   A special-purpose computer designed at Bletchley Park (UK) based upon the reverse engineering of the Lorenz Cypher. The Lorenz Cypher was used by the German army to encrypt high command orders for transmission via teleprinter (the Enigma was a field-use cypher). Once the key to a message was discovered (by the computer Colossus) the Tunny machine would be set to decrypt the message. The process took about four days from intercept to printout. The original Tunny machine was built about 1943 and scrapped after the war. In 2011 a working model was re-built at Bletchley Park where it is on display.
  • turbomachinery — machinery consisting of, incorporating, or constituting a turbine
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