11-letter words containing a, n, d, o
- middlewoman — The female equivalent of a middleman; a female intermediary.
- mill around — walk about
- minor triad — a triad consisting in root position of a root tone with a minor third and a perfect fifth above.
- misdemeanor — Law. a criminal offense defined as less serious than a felony.
- misdiagnose — to make an incorrect diagnosis.
- model plane — a small-scale model of an aircraft, which may or may not be able to fly
- moderations — the quality of being moderate; restraint; avoidance of extremes or excesses; temperance.
- modern jazz — any of various styles of jazz that have evolved since the early 1940s and are marked generally by harmonic and rhythmic complexity, emphasis on chord progressions rather than melody, a tendency to draw on classical forms and styles, and eclectic, allusive melodic tags in improvisation. Also called progressive jazz. Compare bop1 , cool jazz, hard bop.
- modulations — Plural form of modulation.
- mogen david — Star of David.
- molendinary — a mill
- mom and pop — a small family-owned private business enterprise
- mom-and-pop — of or relating to a small retail business, usually owned and operated by members of a family: a mom-and-pop grocery.
- monadically — Biology. any simple, single-celled organism. any of various small, flagellate, colorless ameboids with one to three flagella, especially of the genus Monas.
- monday club — (in Britain) a club made up of right-wing Conservatives who originally met together for lunch on Monday: founded in 1961
- mondo grass — any of several plants belonging to the genus Ophiopogon, of the lily family, native to western Asia, especially O. japonicus, having grasslike leaves and lavender or white flowers.
- monocardian — a creature that has only one heart
- monodactyly — having only one digit or claw.
- monodentate — (chemistry) Describing a ligand that has only a single bond with the central atom.
- monogrammed — Past participle of monogram.
- monographed — Simple past tense and past participle of monograph.
- monohydrate — a hydrate that contains one molecule of water, as ammonium carbonate, (NH 4) 2 CO 3 ·H 2 O.
- montbéliard — an industrial town in E France: former capital of the duchy of Burgundy. Pop: 27 570 (1999)
- mope around — If you mope around or mope about a place, you wander around there not doing anything, looking and feeling unhappy.
- mortal mind — the illusion that mind and life arise from matter and are subject to death. Compare mind (def 19).
- moshe dayan — Moshe [maw-she;; English moh-shuh] /mɔˈʃɛ;; English ˈmoʊ ʃə/ (Show IPA), 1915–81, Israeli politician and military leader: defense minister 1967–74, foreign minister 1977–79.
- motherlands — Plural form of motherland.
- mount guard — If you mount guard or if you mount a guard, you organize people to watch or protect a person or place.
- move around — be mobile, active
- mpls domain — (networking) A portion of a network that contains devices that understand MPLS.
- muck around — moist farmyard dung, decaying vegetable matter, etc.; manure.
- mud volcano — a vent in the earth's surface through which escaping gas and vapor issue, causing mud to boil and occasionally to overflow, forming a conical mound around the vent.
- multi-nodal — pertaining to or of the nature of a node.
- multidomain — of, relating to, or affecting several domains
- muttonheads — Plural form of muttonhead.
- myrmidonian — comprising or resembling myrmidons
- nacogdoches — a city in N Texas.
- namedropper — A person who name-drops.
- nanoseconds — Plural form of nanosecond.
- narcodollar — Usually, narcodollars. money obtained through illegal drug trafficking.
- narrow down — refine, limit
- nasal drops — Nasal drops are medicine that you put directly in your nose one drop at a time.
- nation-wide — extending throughout the nation: The incident aroused nationwide interest.
- needlewoman — a woman who does needlework.
- nematocidal — Acting as a nematocide; fatal to nematodes.
- nematocides — Plural form of nematocide.
- nematodirus — any parasitic nematode worm of the genus Nematodirus
- neo-dadaist — a minor art movement chiefly of the 1960s reviving some of the objectives of dada but placing emphasis on the importance of the work of art produced rather than on the concept generating the work.
- neoadjuvant — (medicine) Describing an adjuvant preparation given before a course of treatment.
- neonaticide — The murder of a newborn.