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14-letter words containing u, r, s, a, m, i

  • home insurance — Home insurance is insurance coverage for your home, its contents, and your possessions.
  • housing market — property trade
  • 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.
  • humoristically — In a humoristic way.
  • hypermasculine — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
  • hyperstimulate — to stimulate excessively
  • hyperuricemias — Plural form of hyperuricemia.
  • ice-cream suit — a man's lightweight summer suit of white or a finely striped or solid pastel color.
  • Îles marquises — a group of volcanic islands in the S Pacific, in French Polynesia. Pop: 8712 (2002). Area: 1287 sq km (497 sq miles)
  • incommensurate — not commensurate; disproportionate; inadequate: Our income is incommensurate to our wants.
  • indian mustard — leaf mustard.
  • inharmoniously — In an inharmonious way.
  • instrumentally — By means of an instrument or agency; as means to an end.
  • insurmountable — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
  • insurmountably — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
  • intermenstrual — Between menstrual periods.
  • intransmutable — incapable of being transmuted into another substance
  • isthmus of kra — an isthmus of SW Thailand, between the Bay of Bengal and the Gulf of Thailand: the narrowest part of the Malay Peninsula. Width: about 56 km (35 miles)
  • karnatak music — the classical music of South India
  • linear measure — any system for measuring length.
  • liquid measure — the system of units of capacity ordinarily used in measuring liquid commodities, as milk or oil. English system: 4 gills = 1 pint; 2 pints = 1 quart; 4 quarts = 1 gallon. Metric system: 1000 milliliters = 1 liter; 1000 liters = 1 kiloliter (= 1 cubic meter).
  • luminous range — the distance at which a certain light, as that of a lighthouse, is visible in clear weather, disregarding interference from obstructions and from the curvature of the earth and depending on the power of the light.
  • macroglobulins — Plural form of macroglobulin.
  • macronutrients — Plural form of macronutrient.
  • magic mushroom — a mushroom, Psilocybe mexicana, of Mexico and the southwestern U.S., containing the hallucinogen psilocybin.
  • make-up artist — sb: applies performers' cosmetics
  • malnourishment — Malnutrition, undernourishment.
  • margaritaceous — resembling mother-of-pearl; pearly.
  • marital status — whether or not one is married
  • marsupial bone — epipubis.
  • marsupial mole — a burrowing Australian marsupial of the genus Notoryctes, resembling a common mole in form and behavior.
  • master builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
  • mastigophorous — carrying a cane or whip
  • material cause — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
  • mauritius hemp — a tropical American plant, Furcraea foetida, having large, fleshy leaves, cultivated as a source of a hemplike fiber.
  • mcclure strait — an arm of the Beaufort Sea between Banks Island in the south and Melville Island and Eglinton Island to the north, in the Northwest Territories, Canada. About 170 miles (270 km) long and 60 miles (90 km) wide.
  • measuring worm — the larva of any geometrid moth, which progresses by bringing the rear end of the body forward and then advancing the front end.
  • megasporangium — a sporangium containing megaspores.
  • mensural music — polyphonic music of the 13th century in which each note has a strictly determined value.
  • metrosexuality — The quality of being metrosexual.
  • microaneurysms — Plural form of microaneurysm.
  • microcephalous — Microcephalic.
  • microinsurance — (insurance) A type of microfinancial service aimed at low-income people and communities, and typified by low premiums and coverage limits.
  • micropulsation — a very minor fluctuation in the strength of the earth's magnetic field
  • microstomatous — having an unusually small mouth
  • military brush — one of a pair of matched hairbrushes having no handles, especially for men and boys.
  • miraculousness — performed by or involving a supernatural power or agency: a miraculous cure.
  • misadventurous — (obsolete) unfortunate.
  • misattribution — the act of attributing; ascription.
  • misgovernaunce — misgovernment
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