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13-letter words containing n, u, m, e, r, i

  • cousin-german — the child of one's aunt or uncle
  • criminousness — the quality or state of being criminous
  • customariness — The state or quality of being customary.
  • deep mourning — completely black mourning clothes made of a drab material: After her brother died, she was in deep mourning for a year.
  • demi-culverin — a culverin having a bore of about 4½ inches (11 cm) and firing a shot of about 10 pounds (5 kg).
  • demi-detourne — a turn in which the dancer on pointe or demi-pointe completes a half turn toward the back foot and lowers the heels, with the back foot finishing in front.
  • deuteronomist — one of the writers of Deuteronomy
  • diathermanous — the property of transmitting heat as electromagnetic radiation.
  • disburdenment — The removal of a burden; an unburdening.
  • disbursements — Plural form of disbursement.
  • disencumbered — Simple past tense and past participle of disencumber.
  • disfigurement — an act or instance of disfiguring.
  • documentarian — Movies, Television. a filmmaker, producer, etc., who specializes in documentaries.
  • documentaries — Plural form of documentary.
  • documentarily — Also, documental [dok-yuh-men-tl] /ˌdɒk yəˈmɛn tl/ (Show IPA). pertaining to, consisting of, or derived from documents: a documentary history of France.
  • documentarist — Movies, Television. a filmmaker, producer, etc., who specializes in documentaries.
  • documentarize — to put in the form of a documentary
  • dress uniform — U.S. Air Force. a uniform consisting of the coat and trousers of the service uniform, with a white shirt and black bow tie, worn for formal occasions.
  • drum magazine — a receptacle that holds and feeds cartridges to a submachine gun or light machine gun.
  • drum paneling — flush paneling in a door.
  • drummondville — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada.
  • dumb terminal — (hardware)   A type of terminal that consists of a keyboard and a display screen that can be used to enter and transmit data to, or display data from, a computer to which it is connected. A dumb terminal, in contrast to an intelligent terminal, has no independent processing capability or auxiliary storage and thus cannot function as a stand-alone device. The dumbest kind of terminal is a glass tty. The next step up has a minimally addressable cursor but no on-screen editing or other features normally supported by an intelligent terminal. Once upon a time, when glass ttys were common and addressable cursors were something special, what is now called a dumb terminal could pass for a smart terminal.
  • e-recruitment — the practice of using Internet or electronic resources to recruit new employees, as by searching online résumé databases.
  • edinburgh sml — (EdML) Implementation of the Core language of SML. Byte-code interpreter in C. Ported to Amiga, Atari, Archimedes and IBM PC. Version: 0.44. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • enumerability — The condition of being enumerable.
  • equestrianism — The skill or sport of horse riding . As an Olympic sport it is divided into three disciplines: show jumping, dressage, and the three-day event (combining show jumping, dressage, and cross-country riding).
  • eurocommunism — the policies, doctrines, and practices of Communist Parties in Western Europe in the 1970s and 1980s, esp those rejecting democratic centralism and favouring nonalignment with the Soviet Union and China
  • fermentitious — of a fermenting nature
  • ferroaluminum — a ferroalloy containing up to 80 percent aluminum.
  • ferrotitanium — a ferroalloy containing up to 45 percent titanium.
  • ferrovanadium — a ferroalloy containing up to 55 percent vanadium.
  • fish geranium — zonal geranium.
  • flight number — the identifying number of a scheduled flight
  • flunitrazepam — a powerful benzodiazepine sedative, C 16 H 12 FN 3 O 3 , that causes semiconsciousness and memory blackouts: has been implicated in date rapes and is illegal in the U.S.
  • fruit machine — gambling: slot machine
  • frumentarious — of or relating to wheat or a similar grain
  • fulani empire — a powerful W African Muslim state that flourished in the 19th century in the area of present-day Nigeria.
  • gastrocnemius — the largest muscle in the calf of the leg, the action of which extends the foot, raises the heel, and assists in bending the knee.
  • geminiflorous — having flowers arranged in pairs.
  • gliding lemur — flying lemur.
  • gourmandizers — Plural form of gourmandizer.
  • herd immunity — the immunity or resistance to a particular infection that occurs in a group of people or animals when a very high percentage of individuals have been vaccinated or previously exposed to the infection.
  • hermeneutical — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
  • house-warming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
  • housewarmings — Plural form of housewarming.
  • hyperimmunity — the state of being immune from or insusceptible to a particular disease or the like.
  • hyperimmunize — to render highly immunized
  • hypermutation — (uncountable) Frequent mutation.
  • hyperurbanism — a pronunciation or grammatical form or usage produced by a speaker of one dialect according to an analogical rule formed by comparison of the speaker's own usage with that of another, more prestigious, dialect and often applied in an inappropriate context, especially in an effort to avoid sounding countrified, rural, or provincial, as in the pronunciation of the word two (to̅o̅) as (tyo̅o̅).
  • illuminometer — an instrument for measuring illumination.
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