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14-letter words containing r, e, p, u, m

  • humphreys peak — the highest peak in Arizona, in the N, in the San Francisco Mountains: 12,633 feet (3851 meters).
  • hurricane lamp — a candlestick or oil lantern protected against drafts or winds by a glass chimney.
  • hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
  • hypermasculine — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
  • hyperstimulate — to stimulate excessively
  • hyperuricaemia — an abnormal elevation of uric acid in the blood
  • hyperuricemias — Plural form of hyperuricemia.
  • hypotrachelium — (on a classical column) any member, as a necking, between the capital and the shaft.
  • immunophoresis — a technique for identifying the antigens in a blood serum
  • immunosuppress — (transitive) To cause immunosuppression in.
  • imperturbation — freedom from perturbation; tranquillity; calmness.
  • imperviousness — not permitting penetration or passage; impenetrable: The coat is impervious to rain.
  • income support — welfare payment to low earners
  • intermunicipal — of or relating to a town or city or its local government: municipal elections.
  • jeune premiere — the female juvenile lead in a play or movie.
  • jump the shark — any of a group of elongate elasmobranch, mostly marine fishes, certain species of which are large, voracious, and sometimes dangerous to humans.
  • jump the track — to go suddenly off the rails
  • jumping spider — any of several small, hairy spiders, of the family Salticidae, that stalk and jump upon their prey instead of snaring it in a web.
  • khmer republic — a former official name of Cambodia.
  • macrocephalous — Having a large head.
  • make-up artist — sb: applies performers' cosmetics
  • marmalade plum — sapote.
  • marsupial bone — epipubis.
  • marsupial mole — a burrowing Australian marsupial of the genus Notoryctes, resembling a common mole in form and behavior.
  • marvel-of-peru — the four-o'clock, Mirabilis jalapa.
  • mauritius hemp — a tropical American plant, Furcraea foetida, having large, fleshy leaves, cultivated as a source of a hemplike fiber.
  • megasporangium — a sporangium containing megaspores.
  • melanospermous — having dark spores, as certain seaweeds.
  • mercapto group — the univalent group –SH.
  • mercaptopurine — a yellow, crystalline, water-insoluble powder, C 5 H 4 N 4 S, used in the treatment of leukemia.
  • metanephridium — (anatomy) A vasiform excretory gland observed in invertebrates, such as annelids, arthropods and molluscs.
  • microcephalous — Microcephalic.
  • microcomputers — Plural form of microcomputer.
  • micropublisher — a publisher of material in microfilm
  • milieu therapy — a type of inpatient therapy, used in psychiatric hospitals, involving prescription of particular activities and social interactions according to a patient's emotional and interpersonal needs.
  • modus operandi — mode of operating or working.
  • money-purchase — relating to a pension scheme in which both employer and employee make contributions to a fund that is used to buy an annuity on retirement. The amount paid as a pension depends on the size of the fund
  • mononeuropathy — A neuropathy that affects only a single nerve (as distinguished from polyneuropathy).
  • motion capture — a process by which a device can be used to capture patterns of live movement; the data is then transmitted to a computer, where simulation software displays it applied to a virtual actor
  • motion picture — a sequence of consecutive pictures of objects photographed in motion by a specially designed camera (motion-picture camera) and thrown on a screen by a projector (motion-picture projector) in such rapid succession as to give the illusion of natural movement.
  • mount prospect — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • moving picture — A moving picture is a film.
  • multi-part key — compound key
  • multi-personal — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
  • multiparameter — Having, or employing multiple parameters.
  • multiple birth — a birth at which two or more children are born at the same time
  • multiple drill — a drilling machine having a number of vertical spindles for drilling several holes in a piece simultaneously.
  • multiple fruit — a fruit, such as a pineapple, formed from the ovaries of individual flowers in an inflorescence
  • multiple store — chain store.
  • multiprocessor — parallel processing
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