11-letter words containing a, m, u, s
- menstruated — Simple past tense and past participle of menstruate.
- menstruates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of menstruate.
- mensuration — the branch of geometry that deals with the measurement of length, area, or volume.
- mensurative — adapted for or concerned with measuring.
- menthaceous — belonging to the Menthaceae, a former name for the plant family Labiatae.
- mesocardium — the double layer of splanchnic mesoderm supporting the embryonic heart.
- mess around — a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition: The room was in a mess.
- metasequoia — a tall deciduous coniferous tree, Metasequoia glyptostrobodes, first known as a fossil and then discovered alive in China.
- metrosexual — a heterosexual, usually urban male who pays much attention to his personal appearance and cultivates an upscale lifestyle.
- microquasar — (astronomy, stars) A high-energy binary star system that includes black hole or neutron star and which resembles a quasar.
- midas touch — the ability to turn any business venture one is associated with into an extremely profitable one.
- milquetoast — a very timid, unassertive, spineless person, especially one who is easily dominated or intimidated: a milquetoast who's afraid to ask for a raise.
- mimosaceous — belonging to the Mimosaceae, now regarded as a subfamily (Mimosoideae) of the legume family.
- miniaturise — (British) alternative spelling of miniaturize.
- miniaturism — Miniature size; tendency towards miniature size.
- miniaturist — an artist whose specialty is small, discrete works.
- misadjusted — to change (something) so that it fits, corresponds, or conforms; adapt; accommodate: to adjust expenses to income.
- miseducated — Simple past tense and past participle of miseducate.
- misevaluate — to determine or set the value or amount of; appraise: to evaluate property.
- misfeatured — Having ugly or misshapen features.
- misguidance — to guide wrongly; misdirect.
- mispersuade — to persuade wrongly
- mispurchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- misregulate — to control or direct by a rule, principle, method, etc.: to regulate household expenses.
- mississauga — a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada, on the SW shore of Lake Ontario: suburb of Toronto.
- modularised — to form or organize into modules, as for flexibility.
- modulations — Plural form of modulation.
- monocarpous — having a gynoecium that forms only a single ovary.
- monochasium — a form of cymose inflorescence in which the main axis produces only a single branch.
- monophagous — feeding on only one kind of food.
- montelukast — a type of oral drug containing a leukotriene inhibitor, used in the treatment of asthma and seasonal allergies.
- moratoriums — Plural form of moratorium.
- mount athos — a mountainous peninsula in NE Greece: location of the Monastic Republic of Mount Athos, an autonomous administrative division of Greece since 1927; inhabited by Eastern Orthodox monks in about 20 monasteries, some founded in the 10th century; prohibited to women and children. Pop: 1942 (2001)
- mount sinai — the mountain where Moses received the Law from God (Exodus 19–20): often identified as Jebel Musa, sometimes as Jebel Serbal, both on the S Sinai Peninsula
- mountainous — (of a region) having many mountains.
- mountebanks — Plural form of mountebank.
- mouse ahead — The point-and-click analog of "type ahead". To manipulate a computer's pointing device (almost always a mouse in this usage, but not necessarily) and its selection or command buttons before a computer program is ready to accept such input, in anticipation of the program accepting the input. Handling this properly is rare, but it can help make a WIMP environment much more usable, assuming the users are familiar with the behaviour of the user interface.
- moustachial — (of a stripe on a beak or snout of an animal) resembling a moustache
- multanimous — having many sides
- multiaccess — a system in which several users are permitted to have apparently simultaneous access to a computer
- multicampus — (of a university or organization) having multiple campuses or locations
- multicasted — Transmitted in the form of a multicast.
- multicausal — having multiple causes
- multifocals — multifocal spectacles
- multiparous — of or relating to a multipara.
- multiphasic — having many phases, stages, aspects, or the like.
- multiplanes — Plural form of multiplane.
- multisonant — having many sounds
- multispiral — having several spiral coils
- multistrand — Composed of multiple strands.