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15-letter words containing u, n, m, s

  • counterexamples — Plural form of counterexample.
  • countermeasures — Plural form of countermeasure.
  • cromolyn sodium — a substance, C 23 H 14 Na 2 O 11 , used as a preventive inhalant for bronchial asthma and hay fever.
  • croque-monsieur — a sandwich filled with ham and cheese, either dipped in egg batter or buttered on the outside, and toasted or grilled
  • cuisine minceur — a style of cooking, originating in France, that limits the use of starch, sugar, butter, and cream traditionally used in French cookery
  • cum grano salis — with a grain of salt; not too literally
  • customer-facing — interacting or communicating directly with customers
  • demulsification — to break down (an emulsion) into separate substances incapable of re-forming the emulsion that was broken down.
  • deputy minister — (in Canada) the senior civil servant in a government department
  • deus ex machina — (in ancient Greek and Roman drama) a god introduced into a play to resolve the plot
  • deuteranomalous — having deuteranomaly; relating to deuteranomaly
  • deuteronomistic — one of the writers of material used in the early books of the Old Testament.
  • dichotomousness — the quality of being dichotomous
  • disambiguations — Plural form of disambiguation.
  • discount market — a trading market in which notes, bills, and other negotiable instruments are discounted.
  • disillusionment — to free from or deprive of illusion, belief, idealism, etc.; disenchant.
  • distinguishment — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • do one's number — a numeral or group of numerals.
  • domain calculus — (database)   A form of relational calculus in which scalar variables take values drawn from a given domain. Examples of the domain calculus are ILL, FQL, DEDUCE and the well known Query By Example (QBE). INGRES is a relational DBMS whose DML is based on the relational calculus.
  • domain squatter — (web)   An unscrupulous person who registers a domain name in the hope of selling it to the rightful, expected owner at a profit. E.g. http://foldoc.com/.
  • doubting thomas — a person who refuses to believe without proof; skeptic. John 20:24–29.
  • draughtsmanship — (British) alternative spelling of draftsmanship.
  • dual admissions — a system whereby students attaining less good marks than what is required are offered a place provided they successfully complete another course first to improve some aspect of their work
  • dumpster diving — the practice of foraging in garbage that has been put out on the street in dumpsters, garbage cans, etc., for discarded items that may still be valuable, useful, or fixable.
  • dutchman's-pipe — a climbing vine, Aristolochia durior, of the birthwort family, having large, heart-shaped leaves and brownish-purple flowers of a curved form suggesting a tobacco pipe.
  • e pluribus unum — one out of many: the motto of the USA
  • eastern rumelia — an autonomous province in the Balkan peninsula, part of the Ottoman Empire, ceded in 1885 to Bulgaria
  • echinodermatous — belonging or pertaining to the echinoderms.
  • economy measure — any method of reducing expenditure and hence saving money
  • emission nebula — a type of nebula that emits visible radiation
  • enantiomorphous — Of or pertaining to enantiomorphs or enantiomorphism; enantiomorphic.
  • entre-deux-mers — any wine produced in the area of the Gironde between the rivers Dordogne and Garonne in S France
  • entrepreneurism — Synonym of entrepreneurialism.
  • equalitarianism — Egalitarianism.
  • ethnomusicology — The study of the music of different cultures, especially non-Western ones.
  • excrementitious — Of or pertaining to the nature of excrement.
  • family business — company owned and run by a family
  • fifth columnist — A fifth columnist is someone who secretly supports and helps the enemies of the country or organization they are in.
  • flavourdynamics — as in quantum flavour dynamics, a mathematical model used to describe the interaction of flavoured particles (weak force) through the exchange of intermediate vector bosons
  • flavoursomeness — Alt form flavorsomeness.
  • fleming's rules — two rules used as mnemonics for the relationship between the directions of current flow, motion, and magnetic field in electromagnetic induction. The hand is held with the thumb, first, and second fingers at right angles, respectively indicating the directions of motion, field, and electric current. The left hand is used for electric motors and the right hand for dynamos
  • fluid mechanics — an applied science dealing with the basic principles of gaseous and liquid matter.
  • food supplement — a substance designed to make up for a deficiency in one's diet
  • formation rules — the set of rules that specify the syntax of a formal system; the algorithm that generates the well-formed formulae
  • foundationalism — (epistemology) The doctrine that beliefs derive justification from certain basic beliefs.
  • francis bushman — Francis X(avier) 1883–1966, U.S. film actor.
  • from sun to sun — from sunrise to sunset
  • fundamentalists — Plural form of fundamentalist.
  • fundamentalness — The state or condition of being fundamental; essential importance.
  • futilitarianism — The belief that all human activity is futile.
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