14-letter words containing r, o, m, u, l
- drummond light — calcium light.
- eleutheromania — A great desire for or obsession with freedom.
- elevator music — recorded popular music played in the background in public places such as elevators, variously regarded as being bland, monotonous, etc.
- euclidean norm — (mathematics) The most common norm, calculated by summing the squares of all coordinates and taking the square root. This is the essence of Pythagoras's theorem. In the infinite-dimensional case, the sum is infinite or is replaced with an integral when the number of dimensions is uncountable.
- family support — a means-tested allowance for families in need
- farmhouse loaf — a large white loaf, baked in a tin, with slightly curved sides and top
- field mushroom — any of various fleshy fungi including the toadstools, puffballs, coral fungi, morels, etc.
- flame-coloured — having a strong reddish-orange colour
- fluorochemical — a chemical compound containing fluorine.
- formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
- frenet formula — one of a set of formulas for finding the curvature and torsion of a plane or space curve in terms of vectors tangent or normal to the curve.
- gallows humour — sinister and ironic humour
- george pullman — plural Pullmans. a railroad sleeping car or parlor car.
- glamourisation — Alternative spelling of glamorization.
- glamourization — Alternative form of glamorization.
- granulomatosis — any disease characterized by the formation of numerous granulomas.
- ground hemlock — a prostrate yew, Taxus canadensis, of eastern North America, having short, flat needles and red, berrylike fruit.
- gulf of mannar — the part of the Indian Ocean between SE India and the island of Sri Lanka: pearl fishing
- health tourism — tourist travel for the purpose of receiving medical treatment or improving health or fitness: The spiraling cost of healthcare has contributed to the growth of medical tourism. Also called health tourism.
- hemoglobinuria — the presence of hemoglobin pigment in the urine.
- hero's formula — the formula for the area of a triangle when the sides are given: for a triangle with sides a, b, and c, the area is equal to , where s is equal to one half the perimeter of the triangle.
- homomultimeric — (biochemistry) Describing a protein containing two or more identical polypeptide chains.
- humoristically — In a humoristic way.
- humourlessness — Alternative spelling of humorlessness.
- hypotrachelium — (on a classical column) any member, as a necking, between the capital and the shaft.
- inharmoniously — In an inharmonious way.
- insurmountable — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
- insurmountably — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
- intermolecular — existing or occurring between molecules.
- intramolecular — existing or occurring within a molecule.
- intrapulmonary — (anatomy) Within the material of the lungs.
- journal intime — a personal or private diary.
- kamloops trout — a variety of rainbow trout found in Canadian lakes
- kekulé formula — the structural formula of benzene represented as a hexagonal ring with alternate single and double bonds between the carbon atoms.
- lemon geranium — a garden geranium, Pelargonium crispum, having lemon-scented leaves.
- lemon squeezer — tool for extracting juice from lemons
- lesser omentum — an omentum attached to the stomach, part of the duodenum, and part of the liver and supporting the hepatic vessels.
- logic emulator — A system of FPGAs, programmable interconnect and software which automatically configures itself into an operating prototype of a large-scale logic design, such as a microprocessor. An emulated design can be connected into the target system and really operated and tested before the design is made into an integrated circuit.
- lumbersomeness — the state of being lumbersome
- luminous range — the distance at which a certain light, as that of a lighthouse, is visible in clear weather, disregarding interference from obstructions and from the curvature of the earth and depending on the power of the light.
- macrocephalous — Having a large head.
- macrodactylous — related to or having macrodactyly
- macroevolution — major evolutionary transition from one type of organism to another occurring at the level of the species and higher taxa.
- macroglobulins — Plural form of macroglobulin.
- macromolecular — Of or relating to a macromolecule.
- macromolecules — Plural form of macromolecule.
- malnourishment — Malnutrition, undernourishment.
- malodorousness — The state or condition of being malodorous.
- mangold-wurzel — mangel-wurzel.
- manuel noriega — Manuel Antonio, born 1934, military leader of Panama 1983–89: captured by U.S. forces and sentenced to prison for drug trafficking 1992.