14-letter words containing u, m, r
- diamantiferous — (usually of geographical regions) producing or bearing diamonds
- diamondiferous — containing or yielding diamonds for mining.
- diaphragm pump — A diaphragm pump is a pump in which a diaphragm is used to move a fluid.
- disciplinarium — a scourge for flogging penitents
- discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
- disencumbering — Present participle of disencumber.
- disencumbrance — the removal of an encumbrance
- disequilibrium — lack of equilibrium; imbalance.
- disfigurements — Plural form of disfigurement.
- disfurnishment — the act or quality of disfurnishing
- disgruntlement — to put into a state of sulky dissatisfaction; make discontent.
- distemperature — a distempered or disordered condition; disturbance of health, mind, or temper.
- diurnal motion — the apparent daily motion, caused by the earth's rotation, of celestial bodies across the sky.
- do a number on — a numeral or group of numerals.
- documentarians — Plural form of documentarian.
- domestic court — (in England) a magistrates' court for domestic proceedings, such as matrimonial, guardianship, custodianship, affiliation, or adoption disputes
- double bedroom — a large bedroom
- double drummer — a type of cicada
- double marking — a method of assessment in which two individuals independently mark a test or evaluate a performance
- double measure — A double measure is a drink that is twice the normal measure.
- dowager's hump — a type of kyphosis, common in older women, in which the shoulders become rounded and the upper back develops a hump: caused by osteoporosis resulting in skeletal deformity.
- dragon's mouth — arethusa (def 1).
- drop-down menu — pull-down menu
- drum majorette — a girl or woman who leads a marching band or drum corps.
- drummond light — calcium light.
- dumbarton oaks — an estate in the District of Columbia: site of conferences held to discuss proposals for creation of the United Nations, August–October, 1944.
- dummy variable — a variable appearing in a mathematical expression that can be replaced by any arbitrary variable, not occurring in the expression, without affecting the value of the whole
- dumping ground — dump (def 17).
- dumping-ground — dump (def 17).
- dutch reformed — of or relating to a Protestant denomination (Dutch Reformed Church) founded by Dutch settlers in New York in 1628 and renamed the Reformed Church in America in 1867.
- dysequilibrium — Alternative form of disequilibrium.
- 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.
- emergency fund — a sum of money set aside by a country, group, or organization for use in an emergency
- empire-builder — a person who seeks extra power for its own sake, esp by increasing the number of his subordinates or staff
- emprosthotonus — (medicine) A condition in which the body is bent sharply forward.
- encouragements — Plural form of encouragement.
- 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.
- excommunicator — One who excommunicates.
- exposure meter — photography: light meter
- extemporaneous — Spoken or done without preparation.
- family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
- family support — a means-tested allowance for families in need
- fancy geranium — a geranium, Pelargonium domesticum, of southern Africa, having roundish clusters of large white, pink, or red flowers.
- fanum fortunae — ancient name of Fano.
- farmhouse loaf — a large white loaf, baked in a tin, with slightly curved sides and top
- ferrozirconium — a ferroalloy containing up to 40 percent zirconium.
- field mushroom — any of various fleshy fungi including the toadstools, puffballs, coral fungi, morels, etc.
- flame-coloured — having a strong reddish-orange colour
- flash spectrum — the emission spectrum of the chromosphere of the sun, which dominates the solar spectrum in the seconds just before and after a total solar eclipse.