13-letter words containing ur
- misdemeanours — Plural form of misdemeanour.
- missouri city — a city in SE Texas.
- money to burn — more money than one needs
- monosaturated — (organic chemistry, of a glyceride) Having one saturated fatty acid.
- moose pasture — land considered to be worthless, esp when lacking in extractable mineral deposits
- mother church — a church from which other churches have had their origin or derived their authority.
- mother figure — a woman embodying or seeming to embody the qualities of an idealized conception of the female parent, eliciting from others the emotional responses that a child typically has toward its mother.
- mother nature — a personification of the forces of nature as a controlling and regulating maternal being, sometimes creative and caring.
- mourning band — a piece of black material, esp an armband, worn to indicate that the wearer is in mourning
- mourning dove — variety of pigeon
- multicoloured — Alternative spelling of multicolored.
- multicultural — of, relating to, or representing several different cultures or cultural elements: a multicultural society.
- multicultured — Having more than one culture.
- multicurrency — Involving more than one currency.
- murder weapon — the weapon that was used in a murder
- murderousness — The state or condition of being murderous.
- murexide test — a test in which treatment of a substance, usually urine, with nitric acid and ammonia indicates the presence of uric acid by formation of murexide.
- muriatic acid — (not in scientific use) hydrochloric acid.
- murmurousness — Quality of being murmurous.
- nanostructure — A structure, especially a semiconductor device, that has dimensions of only a few nanometers.
- natural child — Law. an illegitimate child; one born of illicit intercourse. (especially in Louisiana) an illegitimate child who has been lawfully acknowledged by its father.
- natural death — death that occurs from natural causes, as disease or old age, rather than from violence or an accident.
- natural levee — a deposit of sand or mud built up along, and sloping away from, either side of the flood plain of a river or stream.
- natural right — any right that exists by virtue of natural law.
- natural slope — the maximum angle at which soil will lie in a bank without slipping
- nature's call — call of nature.
- neighbourhood — Standard spelling of neighborhood.
- neosurrealism — a revival of the 20th-century surrealism movement in art, especially painting and sculpture, depicting the imagery of dreams and the subconscious mind.
- neturei karta — a small ultra-orthodox Jewish group living mainly in Jerusalem and New York who oppose the establishment of a Jewish state by temporal means
- neuraminidase — An enzyme, present in many pathogenic or symbiotic microorganisms, that catalyzes the breakdown of glycosides containing neuraminic acid.
- neurilemmomas — Plural form of neurilemmoma.
- neuroanatomic — the branch of anatomy dealing with the nervous system.
- neuroatypical — Having an atypical neurological configuration.
- neuroblastoma — a malignant tumor of immature nerve cells that usually starts in the autonomic nervous system or adrenal gland and spreads quickly, most often affecting young children.
- neurochemical — of or relating to neurochemistry.
- neurocomputer — a computer or a software program that uses a neural network simulating the human brain and can be trained to perform specific tasks, as pattern recognition.
- neuroectoderm — (anatomy) The region of the ectoderm of an embryo that develops into the central nervous system and other nervous tissue.
- neuroeffector — The junction site, where a motor neuron releases a neurotransmitter to affect a target, that acts like an effector.
- neuroethology — the study of the role of the nervous system in animal behaviour
- neurofeedback — The presentation of realtime feedback on brainwave activity, as measured by sensors on the scalp, sometimes offered as a means of therapy.
- neurofibromas — Plural form of neurofibroma.
- neurofilament — (anatomy) A neurofibril.
- neurohormonal — pertaining to or controlled by a neurohormone.
- neurohormones — Plural form of neurohormone.
- neurolinguist — One who studies neurolinguistics.
- neuromuscular — pertaining to or affecting both nerves and muscles.
- neuromyelitis — (pathology) inflammation of both the spinal cord and nerves.
- neuropeptides — Plural form of neuropeptide.
- neurosciences — Plural form of neuroscience.
- neurosurgeons — Plural form of neurosurgeon.