13-letter words containing r, e, c, u, m
- ferrochromium — a ferroalloy containing up to 70 percent chromium.
- fluorochromes — Plural form of fluorochrome.
- force majeure — an unexpected and disruptive event that may operate to excuse a party from a contract.
- fruit machine — gambling: slot machine
- frumentaceous — of the nature of or resembling wheat or other grain.
- fume cupboard — vent used in a laboratory
- funeral march — march played for funeral processions
- 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.
- glutamatergic — (biochemistry, neurology) Of or pertaining to the neurotransmission of glutamate.
- gram molecule — that quantity of a substance whose weight in grams is numerically equal to the molecular weight of the substance.
- hacker humour — A distinctive style of shared intellectual humour found among hackers, having the following marked characteristics: 1. Fascination with form-vs.-content jokes, paradoxes, and humour having to do with confusion of metalevels (see meta). One way to make a hacker laugh: hold a red index card in front of him/her with "GREEN" written on it, or vice-versa (note, however, that this is funny only the first time). 2. Elaborate deadpan parodies of large intellectual constructs, such as specifications (see write-only memory), standards documents, language descriptions (see INTERCAL), and even entire scientific theories (see quantum bogodynamics, computron). 3. Jokes that involve screwily precise reasoning from bizarre, ludicrous, or just grossly counter-intuitive premises. 4. Fascination with puns and wordplay. 5. A fondness for apparently mindless humour with subversive currents of intelligence in it - for example, old Warner Brothers and Rocky & Bullwinkle cartoons, the Marx brothers, the early B-52s, and Monty Python's Flying Circus. Humour that combines this trait with elements of high camp and slapstick is especially favoured. 6. References to the symbol-object antinomies and associated ideas in Zen Buddhism and (less often) Taoism. See has the X nature, Discordianism, zen, ha ha only serious, AI koan. See also filk and retrocomputing. If you have an itchy feeling that all 6 of these traits are really aspects of one thing that is incredibly difficult to talk about exactly, you are (a) correct and (b) responding like a hacker. These traits are also recognizable (though in a less marked form) throughout science-fiction fandom.
- halobacterium — Any of various extremophiles, of genus Halobacterium, found in water saturated or nearly saturated with salt.
- here document — (operating system) Data included in a Unix shell script or Perl script using the "<<" syntax.
- hermeneutical — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
- home computer — a personal computer used in the home.
- homework club — an after-school club where students can stay to do their homework
- host computer — the main computer in a network: controls or performs certain functions for other computers.
- hyperuricemia — an excess of uric acid in the blood, often producing gout.
- hyracotherium — eohippus.
- imputrescible — not liable to decomposition or putrefaction; incorruptible: a tanning process to make skins imputrescible.
- income source — something that provides a regular supply of money, such as employment, investments, a pension etc
- incouragement — Archaic form of encouragement.
- indirect jump — (programming) A jump via an indirect address, i.e. the jump instruction contains the address of a memory location that contains the address of the next instruction to execute. The location containing the address to jump to is sometimes called a vector. Indirect jumps make normal code hard to understand because the jump target is a run-time property of the program that depends on the execution history. They are useful for, e.g. allowing user code to replace operating system code or setting up event handlers.
- inductothermy — the production of fever by means of electromagnetic induction.
- inner sanctum — sanctum (def 2).
- intercommunal — used or shared in common by everyone in a group: a communal jug of wine.
- intermuscular — of or relating to muscle or the muscles: muscular strain.
- introducement — (obsolete) introduction.
- jumper cables — jump leads for starting a vehicle
- komi republic — a constituent republic of NW Russia: annexed by the princes of Moscow in the 14th century. Capital: Syktyvkar. Pop: 1 019 000 (2002). Area: 415 900 sq km (160 540 sq miles)
- lectisternium — (in ancient Rome) a religious rite in which the images of the gods were placed upon couches around a table, upon which was set a feast
- liebfraumilch — a white wine produced chiefly in the region of Hesse in Germany.
- line spectrum — an electromagnetic spectrum consisting of discrete lines, usually characteristic of excited atoms or molecules.
- lucid dreamer — a person who has lucid dreams, either naturally or as a result of training
- lucifer match — friction match.
- lucretia mott — John Raleigh, 1865–1955, U.S. religious leader: Nobel Peace Prize 1946.
- lumber jacket — a short, straight, wool plaid jacket or coat, for informal wear, usually belted and having patch pockets.
- lumberjackets — Plural form of lumberjacket.
- mackerel gull — tern1 .
- macrocephalus — Alternative spelling of macrocephalous.
- macromolecule — a very large molecule, as a colloidal particle, protein, or especially a polymer, composed of hundreds or thousands of atoms.
- macronucleate — having a macronucleus.
- macronutrient — Nutrition. any of the nutritional components of the diet that are required in relatively large amounts: protein, carbohydrate, fat, and the macrominerals.
- madeira sauce — a savoury sauce made with Madeira wine and served with meat
- magnetic drum — a cylinder coated with magnetic material, on which data and programs can be stored.
- manicure case — a case for holding small tools designed to care for the fingernails
- manufactories — Plural form of manufactory.
- manufacturers — Plural form of manufacturer.
- many-coloured — having many colours
- marcus garvey — Marcus (Moziah) [moh-zahy-uh] /moʊˈzaɪ ə/ (Show IPA), 1887–1940, Jamaican black-rights activist in the U.S. (1916–27): advocated emigration of black Americans to Africa.