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12-letter words containing a, n, o, u

  • manipulatory — to manage or influence skillfully, especially in an unfair manner: to manipulate people's feelings.
  • manoeuvering — Present participle of manoeuver.
  • manoeuvrable — Alternative spelling of maneuverable.
  • manoeuvrings — Plural form of manoeuvring.
  • mantoux test — a test for tuberculosis in which a hypersensitive reaction to an intracutaneous injection of tuberculin indicates a previous or current infection.
  • manuka honey — honey from the nectar of the manuka tree, often used for medicinal purposes; known as active manuka honey if it has a UMF rating of over 10.
  • manumissions — Plural form of manumission.
  • mao tse-tung — 1893–1976, Chinese Communist leader: chairman of the People's Republic of China 1949–59; chairman of the Chinese Communist Party 1943–76.
  • mare nostrum — our sea, especially the Mediterranean to the ancient Romans.
  • masturbation — the stimulation or manipulation of one's own genitals, especially to orgasm; sexual self-gratification.
  • matriclinous — Having mostly maternally-inherited characteristics.
  • matroclinous — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the maternal parent (opposed to patrocliny).
  • maturational — the act or process of maturating.
  • maundy money — the ceremony of washing the feet of the poor, especially commemorating Jesus' washing of His disciples' feet on Maundy Thursday.
  • meganthropus — a proposed genus of extinct, late lower Pleistocene primates based on two large lower jaws found in Java, and believed to be either Australopithecine or human.
  • mendaciously — In a lying or deceitful manner.
  • menstruation — the periodic discharge of blood and mucosal tissue from the uterus, occurring approximately monthly from puberty to menopause in nonpregnant women and females of other primate species.
  • mesognathous — having medium, slightly protruding jaws.
  • metachronous — Medicine/Medical. occurring at a different time than a similar event: metachronous tumors.
  • metafunction — (computing, programming) A function which calls all the other functions of a certain program; the only function that can be called independently.
  • metagnathous — Ornithology. having the tips of the mandibles crossed, as the crossbills.
  • methaqualone — a nonbarbiturate sedative-hypnotic substance, C 1 6 H 1 4 N 2 O, used to induce sleep: also widely used as an illicit drug.
  • minor league — professional non-premier sports association
  • minor-league — of or relating to a minor league.
  • misconjugate — Grammar. to inflect (a verb). to recite or display all or some subsets of the inflected forms of (a verb), in a fixed order: One conjugates the present tense of the verb “be” as “I am, you are, he is, we are, you are, they are.”.
  • misconstrual — A misinterpretation of the meaning of something.
  • misdemeanour — Law. a criminal offense defined as less serious than a felony.
  • miseducation — to educate improperly.
  • misfortunate — Having suffered misfortune; pitiable.
  • misquotation — the act of misquoting.
  • missummation — an incorrect summation
  • mockumentary — a movie or television show depicting fictional events but presented as a documentary.
  • modularizing — to form or organize into modules, as for flexibility.
  • momentaneous — brief or continuing for a short time only
  • monadelphous — (of stamens) united into one bundle or set by their filaments.
  • monocultural — the use of land for growing only one type of crop.
  • monogamously — In a monogamous manner.
  • monopetalous — gamopetalous.
  • monosepalous — gamosepalous.
  • montezuma ii — c1470–1520, last Aztec emperor of Mexico 1502–20.
  • monumentally — resembling a monument; massive or imposing.
  • mooch around — If you mooch around or mooch about a place, you move around there slowly with no particular purpose.
  • mornay sauce — a rich white sauce to which grated cheese, usually Swiss or Parmesan, and seasonings have been added
  • motoneuronal — of or pertaining to a motoneuron
  • motor launch — a small naval vessel that chases submarines, etc
  • mount carmel — a mountain ridge in NW Israel, extending from the Samarian Hills to the Mediterranean. Highest point: about 540 m (1800 ft)
  • mount katmai — a volcano in SW Alaska, in the Aleutian Range: erupted in 1912 forming the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, a region with numerous fumaroles; established as Katmai National Monument, 10 917 sq km (4215 sq miles), in 1918. Height: 2100 m (7000 ft). Depth of crater: 1130 m (3700 ft). Width of crater: about 4 km (2.5 miles)
  • mount kazbek — an extinct volcano in N Georgia in the central Caucasus Mountains. Height: 5047 m (16 558 ft)
  • mount pisgah — the mountain slopes to the northeast of the Dead Sea, from one of which, Mount Nebo, Moses viewed Canaan
  • mount shasta — Mount, a volcanic peak in N California, in the Cascade Range. 14,161 feet (4315 meters).
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