14-letter words containing tur
- distemperature — a distempered or disordered condition; disturbance of health, mind, or temper.
- divine liturgy — liturgy (def 5).
- door furniture — locks, handles, etc, designed for use on doors
- double feature — a motion-picture program consisting of two films shown one after the other for the price of a single ticket.
- draw a picture — represent sth visually
- electroculture — the practice of using electricity in agriculture or horticulture in order to stimulate plant growth
- feature editor — a newspaper or magazine journalist who commissions and edits feature articles
- feature writer — a newspaper or magazine journalist who writes feature articles
- feature-length — long enough to be made a feature; of full length: a feature-length story; a feature-length film.
- file signature — A magic number.
- fine structure — a group of lines that are observed in the spectra of certain elements, as hydrogen, and that are caused by various couplings of the azimuthal quantum number and the angular momentum quantum number.
- floriculturist — the cultivation of flowers or flowering plants, especially for ornamental purposes.
- fully-featured — having a full range of features or functions
- future perfect — perfect with respect to a temporal point of reference in time to come; completed with respect to a time in the future, especially when incomplete with respect to the present.
- futurelessness — the state or quality of being futureless
- futures market — a market in which futures contracts in commodities are traded.
- futuristically — of or relating to the future: a futuristic view of the world.
- gum turpentine — turpentine (sense 2)
- handbrake turn — a turn sharply reversing the direction of a vehicle by speedily applying the handbrake while turning the steering wheel
- holy scripture — Scripture (def 1).
- horticulturist — the cultivation of a garden, orchard, or nursery; the cultivation of flowers, fruits, vegetables, or ornamental plants.
- immelmann turn — a maneuver in which an airplane makes a half loop, then resumes its normal, level position by making a half roll: used to gain altitude while turning to fly in the opposite direction.
- imperturbation — freedom from perturbation; tranquillity; calmness.
- in the picture — informed about a given situation
- infrastructure — the basic, underlying framework or features of a system or organization.
- inquisiturient — keen to act as an inquisitor
- interstructure — mode of building, construction, or organization; arrangement of parts, elements, or constituents: a pyramidal structure.
- it's a feature — (jargon) From the adage "It's not a bug, it's a feature." Used sarcastically to describe an unpleasant experience that you wish to gloss over.
- lecture course — a series of lectures on a particular subject
- liturgiologist — a person who studies liturgiology
- living picture — tableau (def 3).
- macrostructure — the gross structure of a metal, as made visible to the naked eye by deep etching.
- manufacturable — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
- march fracture — a hairline crack in a bone, especially of a foot or leg, caused by repeated or prolonged stress and often occurring in runners, dancers, and soldiers (march fracture)
- mature student — sb enrolled in study after usual age
- maturity value — The maturity value of a life insurance policy is the amount of money that is paid out when it matures.
- maturity yield — Finance. the rate of return on a bond expressed as a percentage that accounts for the difference between the interest earned based on current market value and that earned if the bond is held to maturity.
- microminiature — built on an extremely small scale, smaller than subminiature, especially of electronic equipment with small solid-state components in the place of vacuum tubes.
- microstructure — the structure of a metal or alloy as observed, after etching and polishing, under a high degree of magnification.
- miniature golf — a game or amusement modeled on golf and played with a putter and golf ball, in which each very short, grassless “hole” constitutes an obstacle course, consisting of wooden alleys, tunnels, bridges, etc., through which the ball must be driven to hole it.
- misadventurous — (obsolete) unfortunate.
- moisturization — The act or process of moisturizing.
- monounsaturate — a monounsaturated fat or fatty acid, as olive oil.
- motion capture — a process by which a device can be used to capture patterns of live movement; the data is then transmitted to a computer, where simulation software displays it applied to a virtual actor
- motion picture — a sequence of consecutive pictures of objects photographed in motion by a specially designed camera (motion-picture camera) and thrown on a screen by a projector (motion-picture projector) in such rapid succession as to give the illusion of natural movement.
- moving picture — A moving picture is a film.
- multi-cultures — the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc.
- multiculturism — Multiculturalism.
- nanostructured — Having a nanostructure; a structure designed on the nano scale.
- nanostructures — Plural form of nanostructure.