13-letter words containing u, n, e, m
- felony murder — a killing treated as a murder because, though unintended, it occurred during the commission or attempted commission of a felony, as robbery.
- fermentitious — of a fermenting nature
- ferroaluminum — a ferroalloy containing up to 80 percent aluminum.
- ferrotitanium — a ferroalloy containing up to 45 percent titanium.
- ferrovanadium — a ferroalloy containing up to 55 percent vanadium.
- feuilletonism — The light, entertaining writing style associated with feuilletons.
- film sequence — a short piece of film or extract from a film, depicting a specific action or event
- fish geranium — zonal geranium.
- flame cutting — a method of cutting ferrous metals in which the metal is heated by a torch to about 800°C and is oxidized by a stream of oxygen from the torch
- flannel-mouth — a person whose speech is thick, slow, or halting.
- flight number — the identifying number of a scheduled flight
- flunitrazepam — a powerful benzodiazepine sedative, C 16 H 12 FN 3 O 3 , that causes semiconsciousness and memory blackouts: has been implicated in date rapes and is illegal in the U.S.
- foul-smelling — having a very unpleasant smell
- four horsemen — four riders on white, red, black, and pale horses symbolizing pestilence, war, famine, and death, respectively. Rev. 6:2–8.
- froude number — a dimensionless number used in hydrodynamics for model simulation of actual conditions
- fruit machine — gambling: slot machine
- frumentaceous — of the nature of or resembling wheat or other grain.
- frumentarious — of or relating to wheat or a similar grain
- fulani empire — a powerful W African Muslim state that flourished in the 19th century in the area of present-day Nigeria.
- fun and games — frivolously diverting activity.
- fundamentally — serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying: fundamental principles; the fundamental structure.
- funemployment — the condition of a person who enjoys being out of work
- funeral march — march played for funeral processions
- gastrocnemius — the largest muscle in the calf of the leg, the action of which extends the foot, raises the heel, and assists in bending the knee.
- geitonogamous — of or relating to geitonogamy
- geminiflorous — having flowers arranged in pairs.
- gliding lemur — flying lemur.
- gnu assembler — (GAS) A Unix assembler for the GNU project. Many CPU types are handled and COFF and IEEE-695 formats are supported as well as standard a.out. Current version 2.2 ported to Sun-3, Sun-4, i386, 386BSD, BSD/386, Linux, PS/2-AIX, VAX, Ultrix, BSD, VMS. The assembler has been merged with GNU Binutils. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- gobar numeral — any of a set of ancient numerals derived from Hindu numerals
- golden number — a number between 1 and 19, used to indicate the position of any year in the Metonic cycle, calculated as the remainder when 1 is added to the given year and the sum is divided by 19. If the remainder is zero the number is 19
- gourmandizers — Plural form of gourmandizer.
- guessing game — a situation in which conjectures must be made because information is not available or forthcoming
- guesstimating — Present participle of guesstimate.
- guesstimation — (pejorative) An estimation made without good justification and often biased.
- gymnospermous — of or relating to a gymnosperm; having exposed or naked seeds.
- haematogenous — producing blood
- haemodilution — an increase in the fluid content of blood leading to a lower concentration of red blood cells
- he's your man — he's the person needed (for a particular task, role, job, etc)
- helianthemums — Plural form of helianthemum.
- hemagglutinin — A substance, such as a viral protein, that causes hemagglutination.
- herd immunity — the immunity or resistance to a particular infection that occurs in a group of people or animals when a very high percentage of individuals have been vaccinated or previously exposed to the infection.
- here document — (operating system) Data included in a Unix shell script or Perl script using the "<<" syntax.
- hermeneutical — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
- hexamethonium — a compound, C 10 H 24 N 2 , used in the treatment of severe hypertension to lower blood pressure and increase blood flow by blocking transmission of nerve impulses that constrict blood vessels.
- home counties — The Home Counties are the counties which surround London.
- homeoteleuton — a series of words with the same or similar endings.
- homofullerene — (chemistry) Any of various compounds formally derived from a fullerene by the insertion of a methylene group between adjacent carbon atoms.
- homogeneously — composed of parts or elements that are all of the same kind; not heterogeneous: a homogeneous population.
- homologoumena — the books in the New Testament generally held as authoritative and canonical by the early church.
- house manager — a business manager responsible for managing a theater and its staff.