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

  • storm insurance — insurance cover against damage caused by windstorms
  • strombuliferous — having organs coiled as spirals
  • strontium oxide — a white insoluble solid substance used in making strontium salts and purifying sugar. Formula: SrO
  • subalimentation — hypoalimentation.
  • succes d'estime — success won by reason of merit and critical respect rather than by popularity.
  • suicide attempt — bid to kill oneself
  • summer solstice — the solstice on or about June 21st that marks the beginning of summer in the Northern Hemisphere.
  • summer triangle — a group of three first-magnitude stars (Deneb, Vega, and Altair) visible during the summer in the N skies
  • super-committee — a committee with members from two or more organizations or political groups
  • supergovernment — a centralized organization formed by a group of governments to enforce justice or maintain peace.
  • superimposition — to impose, place, or set over, above, or on something else.
  • supernaturalism — supernatural character or agency.
  • superparasitism — the parasitic deposit of eggs on a host already parasitized by a different member of the same species
  • superpatriotism — the quality of being superpatriotic
  • supplementation — the act or process of supplementing.
  • symmetric group — the group of all permutations of a finite set.
  • system building — a method of building in which prefabricated components are used to speed the construction of buildings
  • tablet computer — a number of sheets of writing paper, business forms, etc., fastened together at the edge; pad.
  • talcum (powder) — a powder for the body and face made of powdered, purified talc, usually perfumed
  • tall meadow rue — a meadow rue, Thalictrum polygamum.
  • tandem-compound — (of a compound engine or turbine) having high-pressure and low-pressure units in tandem.
  • tantalus monkey — a long-tailed African monkey, Cercopithecus tantalus (or C. aethiops tantalus), of central African grasslands, having a long face framed by upswept whiskers.
  • tarsometatarsus — the large bone in the lower leg of a bird with which the toe bones articulate, formed by the fusion of tarsal and metatarsal bones.
  • teamsters union — the unofficial name of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen, and Helpers of America.
  • telecommunicate — to transmit (data, sound, images, etc.) by telecommunications.
  • temerariousness — the state or condition of being audacious
  • tetrasporangium — a sporangium containing four asexual spores.
  • the black stump — an imaginary marker of the extent of civilization (esp in the phrase beyond the black stump)
  • the magic flute — an opera (1791) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
  • the midas touch — ability to make money
  • the next minute — You use the expression the next minute or expressions such as 'one minute he was there, the next he was gone' to emphasize that something happens suddenly.
  • the outward man — the body as opposed to the soul
  • the small hours — If something happens in the early hours or in the small hours, it happens in the early morning after midnight.
  • the square mile — the area in central London in which the United Kingdom's major financial business is transacted
  • the ultimate in — The ultimate in something is the best or most advanced example of it.
  • thermal equator — an imaginary line round the earth running through the point on each meridian with the highest average temperature. It lies mainly to the north because of the larger landmasses and therefore greater summer heating
  • thermal neutron — a neutron with low kinetic energy, especially one slowed by the moderator in a nuclear reactor.
  • thermionic tube — a vacuum tube in which the cathode is heated electrically to cause the emission of electrons by thermal agitation.
  • thermodiffusion — thermal diffusion.
  • thorium dioxide — a white, heavy, water-insoluble powder, ThO 2 , used chiefly in incandescent mantles, as the Welsbach gas mantle.
  • three-four time — music: 3/4 time signature
  • tissue-matching — identification of specific genetically linked antigens in tissue in order to minimize antigenic differences between donor and recipient tissue in organ transplantation.
  • to err is human — If you say that to err is human, you mean that it is natural for human beings to make mistakes.
  • to get mixed up — if you get mixed up, you get confused about something
  • to jump the gun — If you jump the gun, you do something before everyone else or before the proper or right time.
  • to take up arms — If one group or country takes up arms against another, they prepare to attack and fight them.
  • torture chamber — a room where somebody is caused extreme physical pain, esp in order to extract information, break resistance, etc
  • transilluminate — to cause light to pass through.
  • treacle mustard — a N temperate cruciferous annual plant, Erysimum cheiranthoides, having small yellow flowers. It is a common weed in cultivated ground
  • tread a measure — to dance
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