13-letter words containing u, l, m
- coulomb field — the electrostatic field around an electrically charged body or particle
- coulomb's law — the principle that the force of attraction or repulsion between two point electric charges is directly proportional to the product of the charges and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. A similar law holds for particles with mass
- councilmember — a member of a council, especially a legislative council.
- counterclaims — Plural form of counterclaim.
- countermelody — a secondary melody that accompanies the primary melody
- county family — an old family that has lived in a particular county for several generations
- court martial — A court martial is a trial in a military court of a member of the armed forces who is charged with breaking a military law.
- court-martial — a court consisting of military or naval personnel appointed by a commander to try charges of offenses by soldiers, sailors, etc., against military or naval law.
- cramer's rule — a method involving the determinant of the coefficients, for calculating a unique solution for a given system of linear equations.
- crumple zones — parts of a motor vehicle, at the front and the rear, that are designed to crumple in a collision, thereby absorbing the impact
- culloden moor — a moor in NE Scotland, near Inverness: site of the battle that ended the Jacobite Rebellion 1746.
- cumulus cloud — a bulbous or billowing white or dark grey cloud associated with rising air currents
- custom-tailor — to modify to fit a specific use or need; tailor-make.
- customer flow — Customer flow is the movement of customers around a store.
- cyclospermous — having the embryo curled around the central albumen
- demasculinise — Alternative spelling of demasculinize.
- demasculinize — Medicine/Medical. to produce certain male secondary sex characteristics in (a female).
- demi-culverin — a culverin having a bore of about 4½ inches (11 cm) and firing a shot of about 10 pounds (5 kg).
- demultiplexer — a type of electronic circuit which receives a single input signal and selects one of multiple possible output routes to which to transmit the signal
- desublimation — (physics) deposition (transformation of gas into solid without an intermediate liquid phase).
- deuteranomaly — a milder form of deuteranopia; partial deuteranopia
- dichlamydeous — (of a flower) having a corolla and calyx
- dichotomously — divided or dividing into two parts.
- disilluminate — to darken
- dissimilitude — unlikeness; difference; dissimilarity.
- dissimulating — Present participle of dissimulate.
- dissimulation — the act of dissimulating; feigning; hypocrisy.
- documentalist — a specialist in documentation; a person working strictly with information and record-keeping.
- documentarily — Also, documental [dok-yuh-men-tl] /ˌdɒk yəˈmɛn tl/ (Show IPA). pertaining to, consisting of, or derived from documents: a documentary history of France.
- dolly mixture — a mixture of small coloured sweets
- dolphinariums — Plural form of dolphinarium.
- domical vault — cloistered vault.
- doomsday cult — A doomsday cult is a religious cult whose members believe that the world is about to end.
- double magnum — Jeroboam (def 2).
- double whammy — twofold misfortune
- double-bottom — tandem trailer (def 1).
- double-dumped — (of a wool bale) compressed, with two bales occupying the volume-equivalent of one ordinary bale
- double-minded — wavering or undecided in mind.
- dramaturgical — the craft or the techniques of dramatic composition.
- drug smuggler — trafficker in illegal substances
- drum paneling — flush paneling in a door.
- drummondville — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- dual monarchy — the kingdom of Austria-Hungary 1867–1918.
- dumb terminal — (hardware) A type of terminal that consists of a keyboard and a display screen that can be used to enter and transmit data to, or display data from, a computer to which it is connected. A dumb terminal, in contrast to an intelligent terminal, has no independent processing capability or auxiliary storage and thus cannot function as a stand-alone device. The dumbest kind of terminal is a glass tty. The next step up has a minimally addressable cursor but no on-screen editing or other features normally supported by an intelligent terminal. Once upon a time, when glass ttys were common and addressable cursors were something special, what is now called a dumb terminal could pass for a smart terminal.
- dumbfoundedly — In a dumbfounded manner.
- dumdum bullet — a hollow-nosed or soft-nosed bullet that expands on impact, inflicting a severe wound.
- dumdum-bullet — a hollow-nosed or soft-nosed bullet that expands on impact, inflicting a severe wound.
- dummy element — an otherwise empty element that stands in for and holds the position of another element in a sentence
- ecumenicalism — the doctrines and practices of the ecumenical movement.
- edinburgh sml — (EdML) Implementation of the Core language of SML. Byte-code interpreter in C. Ported to Amiga, Atari, Archimedes and IBM PC. Version: 0.44. E-mail: <[email protected]>.