14-letter words containing r, h, e, u
- laughter lines — Laughter lines are the same as laugh lines.
- lease-purchase — the continuing use of property or goods under a lease for a stipulated period with option for the lessee to buy and with part of the rental charges credited toward the purchase price.
- leather-lunged — speaking or capable of speaking in a loud, resonant voice, especially for prolonged periods: The leather-lunged senator carried on the filibuster for 18 hours.
- leukodystrophy — (medicine) Any of a group of disorders characterized by progressive degeneration of the white matter of the brain, caused by imperfect growth or development of the myelin sheath that acts as an insulator around nerve fibres.
- light-coloured — having a light colour
- limburg cheese — a semihard white cheese of very strong smell and flavour
- liver chestnut — chestnut (def 9).
- macrocephalous — Having a large head.
- malnourishment — Malnutrition, undernourishment.
- manslaughterer — (legal) Someone who commits manslaughter.
- march fracture — a hairline crack in a bone, especially of a foot or leg, caused by repeated or prolonged stress and often occurring in runners, dancers, and soldiers (march fracture)
- mare tyrrhenum — (Tyrrhenian Sea) an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars, appearing as a dark region when viewed telescopically from the earth.
- marmalade bush — a shrub, Streptosolen jamesonii, of the nightshade family, native to South America, bearing showy trumpet-shaped orange flowers, grown as an ornamental or houseplant.
- master butcher — a butcher who is fully qualified to practise his trade and to train others in it
- mauritius hemp — a tropical American plant, Furcraea foetida, having large, fleshy leaves, cultivated as a source of a hemplike fiber.
- merchant guild — a medieval guild composed of merchants.
- mercury switch — an especially quiet switch that opens and closes an electric circuit by shifting a vial containing a pool of mercury so as to cover or uncover the contacts.
- metanephridium — (anatomy) A vasiform excretory gland observed in invertebrates, such as annelids, arthropods and molluscs.
- methoxyflurane — a potent substance, C 3 H 4 Cl 2 F 2 O, used as an analgesic in minor surgical procedures and less frequently as a general anesthetic.
- microcephalous — Microcephalic.
- micropublisher — a publisher of material in microfilm
- microtechnique — the art of preparing something so that it can properly be examined using a microscope
- middlesborough — a city in SE Kentucky.
- 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.
- miller's thumb — any of several small, freshwater sculpins of the genus Cottus, of Europe and North America.
- miller's-thumb — any of several small, freshwater sculpins of the genus Cottus, of Europe and North America.
- 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).
- mother country — the country of one's birth or ancestry.
- mother hubbard — a full, loose gown, usually fitted at the shoulders, worn by women.
- mother-fucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
- mother-out-law — the mother of one's ex-husband or ex-wife
- mount rushmore — Mount, a peak in the Black Hills of South Dakota that is a memorial (Mount Rushmore National Memorial) having 60-foot (18-meter) busts of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt, carved into its face between 1927 and 1941, from a design by and under the direction of Gutzon Borglum. 5600 feet (1707 meters).
- mouth-watering — very appetizing in appearance, aroma, or description: a mouth-watering dessert.
- much-travelled — A much-travelled person has travelled a lot in foreign countries.
- muddle through — to mix up in a confused or bungling manner; jumble.
- mulching mower — a lawn mower that shreds blades of grass into very small pieces that are left on the lawn to decay and return moisture and nutrients to the soil
- multichambered — comprising or involving several chambers
- multicharacter — (of a book, play, film, etc) involving or relating to several characters
- multiple birth — a birth at which two or more children are born at the same time
- multithreading — (parallel) Sharing a single CPU between multiple tasks (or "threads") in a way designed to minimise the time required to switch threads. This is accomplished by sharing as much as possible of the program execution environment between the different threads so that very little state needs to be saved and restored when changing thread. Multithreading differs from multitasking in that threads share more of their environment with each other than do tasks under multitasking. Threads may be distinguished only by the value of their program counters and stack pointers while sharing a single address space and set of global variables. There is thus very little protection of one thread from another, in contrast to multitasking. Multithreading can thus be used for very fine-grain multitasking, at the level of a few instructions, and so can hide latency by keeping the processor busy after one thread issues a long-latency instruction on which subsequent instructions in that thread depend. A light-weight process is somewhere between a thread and a full process.
- mum's the word — silent; not saying a word: to keep mum.
- murrhine glass — glassware believed to resemble the murrhine cups of ancient Rome.
- musculophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the muscles and the diaphragm.
- myrmecophagous — Pertaining to the anteater.
- myrmecophilous — (biology) Adapted to thrive in the presence of ants.
- nature worship — a system of religion based on the deification and worship of natural forces and phenomena.
- nebuchadnezzar — Also, Nebuchadrezzar [neb-uh-kuh d-rez-er, neb-yoo-] /ˌnɛb ə kədˈrɛz ər, ˌnɛb yʊ-/ (Show IPA). a king of Babylonia, 604?–561? b.c., and conqueror of Jerusalem. II Kings 24, 25.
- neighbourhoods — Plural form of neighbourhood.
- neurochemicals — Plural form of neurochemical.