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14-letter words containing ure

  • tissue culture — the technique of cultivating living tissue in a prepared medium outside the body.
  • torture flight — a flight used to carry out extraordinary rendition
  • total pressure — Total pressure is the total of static pressure p, dynamic pressure q, and gravitational head.
  • treasure chest — A treasure chest is a box containing treasure.
  • treasure house — a building, room, or chamber used as a storage place for valuables; treasury.
  • treasure state — Montana (used as a nickname).
  • treasure trove — If you describe something or someone as a treasure trove of a particular thing, you mean that they are a very good or rich source of that thing.
  • treasure-trove — anything of the nature of treasure or a treasury that one finds: Mother's attic was a treasure-trove of memorabilia.
  • triple measure — time or rhythm characterized by three beats to the measure with an accent on the first beat.
  • turkey vulture — a blackish-brown vulture, Cathartes aura, from the southern U.S. to South America, having a bare, wrinkled, red head and neck.
  • ultimogeniture — postremogeniture.
  • ultraminiature — subminiature.
  • ultrastructure — the structures of a cell that are revealed by electron microscopy.
  • unbureaucratic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a bureaucrat or a bureaucracy; arbitrary and routine.
  • under-pressure — the exertion of force upon a surface by an object, fluid, etc., in contact with it: the pressure of earth against a wall.
  • understructure — a structure serving as a support; a base or foundation: The building has a strong understructure.
  • unit furniture — furniture consisting of separate units, conceived to be combined in different ways
  • unmanufactured — (of a product, commodity, etc) not manufactured
  • ursine dasyure — Tasmanian devil.
  • vapor pressure — the pressure exerted by the molecules of a vapor, especially that part of the total pressure exerted by vapor in a mixture of gases, as by water vapor in air.
  • wagner-jauregg — Julius [yoo-lee-oo s] /ˈyu liˌʊs/ (Show IPA), 1857–1940, Austrian psychiatrist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1927.
  • water measurer — a slender heteropterous bug, Hydrometra stagnorum, that has a greatly elongated head and is found on still or sluggish water where it preys on water fleas, mosquito larvae, etc
  • weather bureau — the former name of the U.S. National Weather Service.
  • wessex culture — an early Bronze Age culture of southern England, 1800–1400 b.c., known only from grave sites, grave goods, and megaliths and considered responsible for erecting the sarsen stones of the third building phase of Stonehenge.
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