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14-letter words containing u, n, e, m

  • 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.
  • ferrozirconium — a ferroalloy containing up to 40 percent zirconium.
  • final judgment — judgment (def 8).
  • flannelmouthed — talking thickly, slowly, or haltingly.
  • foramen magnum — the large opening in the base of the skull forming the passage from the cranial cavity to the spinal canal.
  • foraminiferous — Having small openings, or foramina.
  • founder member — A founder member of a club, group, or organization is one of the first members, often one who was involved in setting it up.
  • framing square — a steel square usually having on its faces various tables and scales useful to the carpenter.
  • free churchman — (sometimes initial capital letters) a member of a free church.
  • french mustard — a mild mustard paste made with vinegar rather than water
  • frenet formula — one of a set of formulas for finding the curvature and torsion of a plane or space curve in terms of vectors tangent or normal to the curve.
  • fundamentalism — (sometimes initial capital letter) a religious movement characterized by a strict belief in the literal interpretation of religious texts, especially within American Protestantism and Islam.
  • fundamentalist — an adherent of fundamentalism, a religious movement characterized by a strict belief in the literal interpretation of religious texts: radical fundamentalists.
  • fundamentality — serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying: fundamental principles; the fundamental structure.
  • gallamine blue — a type of mordant dye
  • gambling house — a building for gambling, especially for a large number of betting games.
  • gamine haircut — a boyish or elfish hairstyle, esp on a woman
  • gaussian image — the point in an optical system with spherical aberration at which the paraxial rays meet.
  • generic markup — (text)   In computerised document preparation, a method of adding information to the text indicating the logical components of a document, such as paragraphs, headers or footnotes. SGML is an example of such a system. Specific instructions for layout of the text on the page do not appear in the markup.
  • george pullman — plural Pullmans. a railroad sleeping car or parlor car.
  • gerald sussman — (person)   (Gerald J. Sussman, Jerry) A noted hacker at MIT and one of the developers of SCHEME and 6.001.
  • gewurztraminer — a type of white grape used in winemaking.
  • go up in smoke — the visible vapor and gases given off by a burning or smoldering substance, especially the gray, brown, or blackish mixture of gases and suspended carbon particles resulting from the combustion of wood, peat, coal, or other organic matter.
  • ground hemlock — a prostrate yew, Taxus canadensis, of eastern North America, having short, flat needles and red, berrylike fruit.
  • group medicine — the practice of medicine by a number of specialists working together in association
  • guarantee form — a document that spells out the terms of a legally binding guarantee
  • gum turpentine — turpentine (sense 2)
  • gynecomorphous — having the form, appearance, or attributes of a female.
  • gynomonoecious — having both female and hermaphrodite flowers on the same plant.
  • haemagglutinin — Alternative spelling of hemagglutinin.
  • haplostemonous — (of plants) having the stamens arranged in a single whorl
  • harmoniousness — The characteristic of being harmonious.
  • harriet tubman — Harriet (Araminta) 1820?–1913, U.S. abolitionist: escaped slave and leader of the Underground Railroad; served as a Union scout during Civil War.
  • helium balloon — a balloon that is filled with helium and rises up into the air if not held
  • hemagglutinate — to cause the clumping of red blood cells in
  • hemingwayesque — of, relating to, or characteristic of Ernest Hemingway or his works.
  • hemoglobinuria — the presence of hemoglobin pigment in the urine.
  • hepburn system — a widely used system of Romanization of Japanese devised by James Curtis Hepburn (1815–1911).
  • hermann muller — Hermann Joseph, 1890–1967, U.S. geneticist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1946.
  • hermeneuticist — One who studies hermeneutics.
  • home insurance — Home insurance is insurance coverage for your home, its contents, and your possessions.
  • homeward bound — going home
  • homme du monde — a man of the world; a sophisticate.
  • honey mesquite — a thorny drought-resistant tree, Prosopis glandulosa, of the legume family, native to the southwestern U.S., having clusters of yellow flowers.
  • honey mushroom — the edible mushroom of the oak-root fungus, Armillariella mellea.
  • household name — a person or thing that is very well known
  • housing market — property trade
  • housing scheme — arrangement offering subsidized housing
  • human interest — a quality of a story or report, as in a newspaper or on a newscast, that engages attention and sympathy by enabling one to identify readily with the people, problems, and situations described.
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