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16-letter words containing t, a, u, r, s, m

  • mourne mountains — a mountain range in SE Northern Ireland. Highest peak: Slieve Donard, 853 m (2798 ft)
  • muddy the waters — If someone or something muddies the waters, they cause a situation or issue to seem less clear and less easy to understand.
  • multiculturalism — the state or condition of being multicultural.
  • multiculturalist — Pertaining to or advocating multiculturalism.
  • multifariousness — (uncountable) The characteristic of being multifarious.
  • multiple factors — polygene.
  • musical director — A musical director is the same as a music director.
  • mustard-coloured — of a brownish-yellow colour
  • mutual insurance — insurance in which those insured become members of a company who reciprocally engage, by payment of certain amounts into a common fund, to indemnify one another against loss.
  • mutual recursion — recursion
  • neurotransmitter — any of several chemical substances, as epinephrine or acetylcholine, that transmit nerve impulses across a synapse to a postsynaptic element, as another nerve, muscle, or gland.
  • nitrogen mustard — any of the class of poisonous, blistering compounds, as C 5 H 1 1 Cl 2 N, analogous in composition to mustard gas but containing nitrogen instead of sulfur: used in the treatment of cancer and similar diseases; mechlorethamine.
  • non-instrumental — serving or acting as an instrument or means; useful; helpful.
  • north massapequa — a city on S Long Island, in SE New York.
  • obsequent stream — a stream flowing in a direction opposite to that of the dip of the local strata.
  • orthodox judaism — Judaism as observed by Orthodox Jews.
  • outsmart oneself — to have one's efforts at cunning or cleverness result in one's own disadvantage
  • paint-by-numbers — formulaic; showing no original thought or creativity
  • pairs tournament — an event in a sport such as tennis or darts open to pairs of competitors
  • permaculturalist — a system of cultivation intended to maintain permanent agriculture or horticulture by relying on renewable resources and a self-sustaining ecosystem.
  • pleasure steamer — a boat powered by steam, used for recreational purposes
  • primary industry — an industry, as agriculture, forestry, or fishing, that deals in obtaining natural materials.
  • print journalism — journalism as practiced in newspapers and magazines.
  • quasi-democratic — pertaining to or of the nature of democracy or a democracy.
  • rambunctiousness — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
  • raster subsystem — (graphics)   The part of a graphics system concerned with an image after it has been transformed and scaled to screen coordinates. It includes scan conversion and display.
  • rectus abdominis — a long flat muscle that extends along the whole length of both sides of the abdomen. It flexes the vertebral column, particularly the lumbar portion; it also tenses the anterior abdominal wall and assists in compressing the abdominal contents
  • research quantum — the standard by which the contribution to a university of individual academics is measured and on the basis of which universities receive government funding and academics are promoted
  • rhythm and blues — a folk-based but urbanized form of black popular music that is marked by strong, repetitious rhythms and simple melodies and was developed, in a commercialized form, into rock-'n'-roll.
  • rhythm-and-blues — a folk-based but urbanized form of black popular music that is marked by strong, repetitious rhythms and simple melodies and was developed, in a commercialized form, into rock-'n'-roll.
  • root mean square — the square root of the arithmetic mean of the squares of the numbers in a given set of numbers. Abbreviation: rms.
  • sault ste. marie — the rapids of the St. Marys River, between NE Michigan and Ontario, Canada.
  • saxo grammaticus — c1150–1206? Danish historian and poet.
  • sclerenchymatous — supporting or protective tissue composed of thickened, dry, and hardened cells.
  • security manager — The security manager of a store is the person responsible for organizing all security in the store and to whom security guards report.
  • security measure — a precaution taken against terrorism, espionage or other danger
  • semiagricultural — partly engaged in or given over to agriculture
  • semisubterranean — half below the surface of the ground: the semisubterranean houses of some Indian tribes.
  • shotgun marriage — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
  • shuttle armature — a simple H-shaped armature used in small direct-current motors
  • smelting furnace — an industrial oven used to heat ore in order to extract metal
  • sodium carbonate — Also called soda ash. an anhydrous, grayish-white, odorless, water-soluble powder, Na 2 CO 3 , usually obtained by the Solvay process and containing about 1 percent of impurities consisting of sulfates, chlorides, and bicarbonates of sodium: used in the manufacture of glass, ceramics, soaps, paper, petroleum products, sodium salts, as a cleanser, for bleaching, and in water treatment.
  • sodium perborate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble solid, NaBO 2 ⋅3H 2 O or NaBO 3 ⋅4H 2 O, used chiefly as a bleaching agent and antiseptic.
  • source materials — publications from which information is obtained
  • speaking trumpet — a trumpet-shaped instrument used to carry the voice a great distance or held to the ear by a deaf person to aid his hearing
  • spring mountains — a mountain range in S Nevada extending to the California border. Highest peak, Charleston Peak. 11,919 feet (3635 meters).
  • square kilometer — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one kilometer on each side. 2 , sq. km. Abbreviation: km.
  • start-up company — new business
  • stomach-churning — causing nausea.
  • studio apartment — an apartment consisting of one main room, a kitchen or kitchenette, and a bathroom. Compare efficiency apartment.
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