13-letter words containing r, u, m, y
- money grubber — a person who is aggressively engaged in or preoccupied with making or saving money.
- money to burn — more money than one needs
- money-grubber — a person who is aggressively engaged in or preoccupied with making or saving money.
- moneygrubbers — Plural form of moneygrubber.
- moneygrubbing — Alternative spelling of money-grubbing.
- monkey around — any mammal of the order Primates, including the guenons, macaques, langurs, and capuchins, but excluding humans, the anthropoid apes, and, usually, the tarsier and prosimians. Compare New World monkey, Old World monkey.
- mountebankery — The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.
- multi-sensory — of or relating to the senses or sensation.
- multicategory — (mathematics) A generalization of the concept of category that allows morphisms of multiple arity.
- multicurrency — Involving more than one currency.
- multicylinder — having more than one cylinder, as an internal-combustion or steam engine.
- multiemployer — Of or pertaining to more than one employer.
- multiindustry — Of or pertaining to more than one industry.
- multiliteracy — The ability to be literate in terms of text in media other than paper.
- multipartyism — a political system in which two or more political parties contest elections
- multipolarity — The condition of being multipolar.
- musicotherapy — the treatment of mental disorders with music
- mycobacterium — A bacterium of a group that includes the causative agents of leprosy and tuberculosis.
- neuromyelitis — (pathology) inflammation of both the spinal cord and nerves.
- non-customary — according to or depending on custom; usual; habitual.
- nonambulatory — of, relating to, or capable of walking: an ambulatory exploration of the countryside.
- noncompulsory — Not compulsory.
- nonuniformity — (uncountable) The condition of being nonuniform.
- number theory — the study of integers and their relation to one another.
- nursery rhyme — a short, simple poem or song for very young children, as Hickory Dickory Dock.
- on your marks — On your marks in British English, or on your mark in American English, is a command given to runners at the beginning of a race in order to get them into the correct position to start.
- on your terms — If you do something on your terms, you do it under conditions that you decide because you are in a position of power.
- paramyxovirus — any of various RNA-containing viruses that are similar to but larger than the myxoviruses, including the viruses that cause mumps, measles, parainfluenza, and Newcastle disease.
- plymouth rock — a rock at Plymouth, Massachusetts, on which the Pilgrims who sailed on the Mayflower are said to have stepped ashore when they landed in America in 1620.
- polyoma virus — a small DNA-containing virus, of the papovavirus group, that can produce a variety of tumors in mice, hamsters, rabbits, and rats.
- presumptively — affording ground for presumption: presumptive evidence.
- primary group — a group of individuals living in close, intimate, and personal relationship.
- promiscuously — characterized by or involving indiscriminate mingling or association, especially having sexual relations with a number of partners on a casual basis.
- quantity mark — a mark that is placed above a vowel or syllable to indicate its duration or length
- quarrelsomely — In a quarrelsome manner.
- quasimilitary — Having certain military aspects.
- quaterpolymer — A copolymer derived from four species of monomer.
- rhesus monkey — animal: macaque
- rhythm guitar — a guitar used to provide rhythm, particularly during a musical ensemble
- rudimentarily — pertaining to rudiments or first principles; elementary: a rudimentary knowledge of geometry.
- sample survey — a survey of particular examples of sth, intended as representative of the whole category
- scullery maid — a maid whose duties include washing up and vegetable preparation
- security firm — a firm which provides guards for buildings, and other security services and personnel
- shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
- slumber party — a social gathering typically of teenagers held at the home of one of them for the purpose of sleeping there overnight.
- sprung rhythm — a poetic rhythm characterized by the use of strongly accented syllables, often in juxtaposition, accompanied by an indefinite number of unaccented syllables in each foot, of which the accented syllable is the essential component.
- spurge family — the large plant family Euphorbiaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having milky juice, simple alternate leaves or no leaves, usually petalless flowers often with showy bracts, and capsular fruit, and including cassava, croton, crown-of-thorns, poinsettia, snow-on-the-mountain, spurge, and the plants that produce castor oil, rubber, and tung oil.
- summer savory — See under savory2 .
- sumptuary law — a law regulating personal habits that offend the moral or religious beliefs of the community.
- supermajority — a majority that must represent some percentage more than a simple majority.