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

  • transsexualism — a person having a strong desire to assume the physical characteristics and gender role of the opposite sex.
  • trumpet marine — an obsolete musical instrument having a long, wooden, pyramid-shaped body, characteristically with one string that is touched with the finger to produce harmonics and is bowed between the touching finger and the upper end.
  • trumpeter swan — a large, pure-white, wild swan, Cygnus buccinator, of North America, having a sonorous cry: once near extinction, the species is now recovering.
  • tumorigenicity — (of cells or a substance) capable of producing tumors.
  • tunny emulator — (hardware, cryptography)   A special-purpose computer designed at Bletchley Park (UK) based upon the reverse engineering of the Lorenz Cypher. The Lorenz Cypher was used by the German army to encrypt high command orders for transmission via teleprinter (the Enigma was a field-use cypher). Once the key to a message was discovered (by the computer Colossus) the Tunny machine would be set to decrypt the message. The process took about four days from intercept to printout. The original Tunny machine was built about 1943 and scrapped after the war. In 2011 a working model was re-built at Bletchley Park where it is on display.
  • turbomachinery — machinery consisting of, incorporating, or constituting a turbine
  • turing machine — a hypothetical device with a set of logical rules of computation: the concept is used in mathematical studies of the computability of numbers and in the mathematical theories of automata and computers.
  • turn on a dime — change direction quickly
  • turnkey system — Computers. a computer system purchased from hardware and software vendors, customized and put in working order by a firm that then sells the completed system to the client that ordered it.
  • ultimogeniture — postremogeniture.
  • ultra-feminine — pertaining to a woman or girl: feminine beauty; feminine dress.
  • ultracompetent — extremely competent
  • ultramasculine — extremely masculine
  • ultraminiature — subminiature.
  • umbrella plant — an African plant, Cyperus alternifolius, of the sedge family, that has several stems growing directly upward from a mass of roots and an umbrella-shaped cluster of leaves at the top of each stem.
  • umbrella stand — an upright rack or stand for umbrellas
  • unadministered — to manage (affairs, a government, etc.); have executive charge of: to administer the law.
  • unarmed combat — the action of fighting without weapons
  • uncomputerized — not computerized; not equipped with, involving, or making use of computers
  • uncontemporary — outmoded
  • undemonstrable — not able to be made evident
  • undermentioned — to refer briefly to; name, specify, or speak of: Don't forget to mention her contribution to the project.
  • understatement — the act or an instance of understating, or representing in a weak or restrained way that is not borne out by the facts: The journalist wrote that the earthquake had caused some damage. This turned out to be a massive understatement of the devastation.
  • undeterminable — capable of being determined.
  • unintermitting — (of an activity) having no temporary breaks, intervals, or suspension of action
  • universal time — (time, standard)   (UT) The mean solar time along the prime meridian (0 longitude) that runs through the Greenwich Observatory outside of London, UK, where the current system originated. UT is tied to the rotation of the Earth in respect to the fictitious "mean Sun". There are three separate definitions, UT0, UT1, and UT2, depending on which corrections have been applied to the Earth's motion. Coordinated Universal Time is kept within 0.9 seconds of UT1, by addition of leap seconds to International Atomic Time.
  • unmanufactured — (of a product, commodity, etc) not manufactured
  • unmaterialised — not materialised
  • unmaterialized — to come into perceptible existence; appear; become actual or real; be realized or carried out: Our plans never materialized.
  • unmatriculated — (of a student) not enrolled in a college, university, or similar institution
  • unmerchantable — (of goods) not suitable for trading
  • unmetaphorical — not used, viewed, or intended as a metaphor
  • unpremeditable — capable of being premeditated
  • unpremeditated — done deliberately; planned in advance: a premeditated murder.
  • unpresumptuous — not presumptuous; modest
  • unremunerative — not rewarding or paying for work or service, etc
  • unromanticized — not romantic
  • unsectarianism — the state or quality of being unsectarian
  • unsurmountable — to mount upon; get on the top of; mount upon and cross over: to surmount a hill.
  • untransmutable — intransmutable
  • volume control — switch used to adjust level of sound
  • volunteer army — a military force composed entirely of enlistees.
  • without number — of too great a quantity to be counted; innumerable
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