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

  • free churchman — (sometimes initial capital letters) a member of a free church.
  • french mustard — a mild mustard paste made with vinegar rather than water
  • 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.
  • gamine haircut — a boyish or elfish hairstyle, esp on a woman
  • generic markup — (text)   In computerised document preparation, a method of adding information to the text indicating the logical components of a document, such as paragraphs, headers or footnotes. SGML is an example of such a system. Specific instructions for layout of the text on the page do not appear in the markup.
  • george pullman — plural Pullmans. a railroad sleeping car or parlor car.
  • gerald sussman — (person)   (Gerald J. Sussman, Jerry) A noted hacker at MIT and one of the developers of SCHEME and 6.001.
  • gewurztraminer — a type of white grape used in winemaking.
  • ground hemlock — a prostrate yew, Taxus canadensis, of eastern North America, having short, flat needles and red, berrylike fruit.
  • group medicine — the practice of medicine by a number of specialists working together in association
  • guarantee form — a document that spells out the terms of a legally binding guarantee
  • gum turpentine — turpentine (sense 2)
  • gynecomorphous — having the form, appearance, or attributes of a female.
  • harmoniousness — The characteristic of being harmonious.
  • harriet tubmanHarriet (Araminta) 1820?–1913, U.S. abolitionist: escaped slave and leader of the Underground Railroad; served as a Union scout during Civil War.
  • hemoglobinuria — the presence of hemoglobin pigment in the urine.
  • hepburn system — a widely used system of Romanization of Japanese devised by James Curtis Hepburn (1815–1911).
  • hermann mullerHermann Joseph, 1890–1967, U.S. geneticist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1946.
  • hermeneuticist — One who studies hermeneutics.
  • home insurance — Home insurance is insurance coverage for your home, its contents, and your possessions.
  • homeward bound — going home
  • honey mushroom — the edible mushroom of the oak-root fungus, Armillariella mellea.
  • housing market — property trade
  • human interest — a quality of a story or report, as in a newspaper or on a newscast, that engages attention and sympathy by enabling one to identify readily with the people, problems, and situations described.
  • humourlessness — Alternative spelling of humorlessness.
  • humoursomeness — the quality of being humoursome
  • 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.
  • immelmann turn — a maneuver in which an airplane makes a half loop, then resumes its normal, level position by making a half roll: used to gain altitude while turning to fly in the opposite direction.
  • immunophoresis — a technique for identifying the antigens in a blood serum
  • immunoreaction — Immune reaction.
  • immunoreactive — Of, pertaining to, or causing an immune reaction.
  • 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
  • incommensurate — not commensurate; disproportionate; inadequate: Our income is incommensurate to our wants.
  • innumerability — The state of being innumerable.
  • instrumentally — By means of an instrument or agency; as means to an end.
  • insurmountable — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
  • intercommunion — mutual communion, association, or relations.
  • intercommunity — common ownership, use, participation, etc.
  • intermenstrual — Between menstrual periods.
  • intermolecular — existing or occurring between molecules.
  • intermunicipal — of or relating to a town or city or its local government: municipal elections.
  • intramedullary — located within the spinal cord, the medulla oblongata, or bone marrow
  • intramercurial — within Mercury's orbit
  • intramolecular — existing or occurring within a molecule.
  • intransmutable — incapable of being transmuted into another substance
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