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14-letter words containing mu

  • garlic mustard — a plant, Alliaria petiolata, of N temperate regions, with small white flowers and an odour of garlic: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
  • gemuetlichkeit — warm cordiality; comfortable friendliness; congeniality.
  • hermann muller — Hermann Joseph, 1890–1967, U.S. geneticist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1946.
  • hero's formula — the formula for the area of a triangle when the sides are given: for a triangle with sides a, b, and c, the area is equal to , where s is equal to one half the perimeter of the triangle.
  • hippopotamuses — Plural form of hippopotamus.
  • holy communion — communion (def 1).
  • homomultimeric — (biochemistry) Describing a protein containing two or more identical polypeptide chains.
  • honey mushroom — the edible mushroom of the oak-root fungus, Armillariella mellea.
  • horse mushroom — a smooth, edible, large white-capped mushroom, Agaricus arvensis, that has the odor of anise, common in North American meadows and fields.
  • hugger-muggery — hugger-mugger (defs 1, 2).
  • hyperstimulate — to stimulate excessively
  • hypothalamus's — a region of the brain, between the thalamus and the midbrain, that functions as the main control center for the autonomic nervous system by regulating sleep cycles, body temperature, appetite, etc., and that acts as an endocrine gland by producing hormones, including the releasing factors that control the hormonal secretions of the pituitary gland.
  • immune complex — an aggregate of an antigen and its specific antibody.
  • immunoblotting — The use of immunoblots to analyse proteins.
  • immunochemical — Pertaining to immunochemistry.
  • immunodominant — Of or pertaining to the epitope of a molecule that provokes the most intense immune response.
  • immunogenetics — the branch of immunology dealing with the study of immunity in relation to genetic makeup.
  • immunogenicity — causing or capable of producing an immune response.
  • immunoglobulin — any of several classes of structurally related proteins that function as antibodies or receptors and are found in plasma and other body fluids and in the membrane of certain cells. Compare IgA, IgD, IgE, IgG, IgM.
  • immunophoresis — a technique for identifying the antigens in a blood serum
  • immunoreaction — Immune reaction.
  • immunoreactive — Of, pertaining to, or causing an immune reaction.
  • immunostaining — (uncountable, immunology) Any of several staining techniques that are used to detect specific proteins.
  • immunosuppress — (transitive) To cause immunosuppression in.
  • immunotoxicity — The toxic effect of an immunotoxin on the immune system.
  • incommunicable — incapable of being communicated, imparted, shared, etc.
  • incommunicably — In an incommunicable manner or fashion.
  • indian mustard — leaf mustard.
  • intercommunion — mutual communion, association, or relations.
  • intercommunity — common ownership, use, participation, etc.
  • intermunicipal — of or relating to a town or city or its local government: municipal elections.
  • 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
  • keep sb amused — If you keep someone amused, you find things to do which stop them getting bored.
  • kekulé formula — the structural formula of benzene represented as a hexagonal ring with alternate single and double bonds between the carbon atoms.
  • logic emulator — A system of FPGAs, programmable interconnect and software which automatically configures itself into an operating prototype of a large-scale logic design, such as a microprocessor. An emulated design can be connected into the target system and really operated and tested before the design is made into an integrated circuit.
  • macro-mutation — a mutation that has a profound effect on the resulting organism, as a change in a regulatory gene that controls the expression of many structural genes.
  • magic mushroom — a mushroom, Psilocybe mexicana, of Mexico and the southwestern U.S., containing the hallucinogen psilocybin.
  • make a muck of — to ruin or spoil
  • mensural music — polyphonic music of the 13th century in which each note has a strictly determined value.
  • miscommunicate — (ambitransitive) To communicate incorrectly.
  • much-travelled — A much-travelled person has travelled a lot in foreign countries.
  • mucoviscidosis — cystic fibrosis.
  • muddle through — to mix up in a confused or bungling manner; jumble.
  • muddleheadedly — In a muddleheaded manner.
  • muhammad ahmed — ("the Mahdi") 1844–85, Muslim leader in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.
  • muhammad ghori — Mohammed of Ghor.
  • mulching mower — a lawn mower that shreds blades of grass into very small pieces that are left on the lawn to decay and return moisture and nutrients to the soil
  • multarticulate — having multiple joints
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