12-letter words containing a, n, o, u
- mount sorata — a mountain in W Bolivia, in the Andes: the highest mountain in the Cordillera Real, with two peaks, Ancohuma, 6550 m (21 490 ft), and Illampu, 6485 m (21 276 ft)
- mountain ash — variety of tree
- mountain cat — any of various wild feline mammals, such as the bobcat, lynx, or puma
- mountain dew — moonshine; whisky that has been illegally distilled
- mountain top — the top of a natural upward projection of the earth's surface, higher and steeper than a hill and often having a rocky summit
- mountaineers — Plural form of mountaineer.
- mountainlike — Resembling a mountain or some aspect of one.
- mountainness — The property of being a mountain, or of being mountainlike.
- mountainside — The sloping surface of a mountain.
- mountaintops — Plural form of mountaintop.
- mountainward — Towards a mountain or mountains.
- mountebanked — Simple past tense and past participle of mountebank.
- mouse around — To explore public portions of a large system, especially a network such as Internet via FTP or TELNET, looking for interesting stuff to snarf.
- mucilaginous — of, relating to, or secreting mucilage.
- muddle along — If you muddle along, you live or exist without a proper plan or purpose in your life.
- multimegaton — (of a nuclear weapon) having several megatons of explosive power
- multinodular — of, relating to, or characterized by nodules.
- multinomials — Plural form of multinomial.
- multinominal — having several or many names.
- munro-bagger — a person who climbs as many Munros as possible
- murman coast — an Arctic coastal region in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, on the Kola Peninsula.
- murmurations — Plural form of murmuration.
- musterbation — Alt form musturbation.
- musturbation — (psychology) The compulsive insistence that things ought to be a particular way.
- mutarotation — a gradual change in the optical rotation of freshly prepared solutions of reducing sugars.
- mutationally — In a mutational manner.
- muttonheaded — a slow-witted, foolish, or stupid person; dolt.
- myclobutanil — A triazole fungicide that works by inhibiting ergosterol biosynthesis.
- myoneuralgia — myalgia.
- nanocomputer — (architecture) /nan'oh-k*m-pyoo'tr/ A computer with molecular-sized switching elements. Designs for mechanical nanocomputers which use single-molecule sliding rods for their logic have been proposed. The controller for a nanobot would be a nanocomputer. Some nanocomputers can also be called quantum computers because quantum physics plays a major role in calculations. Richard P. Feynman is still cited today for his work in this area.
- narrow gauge — a standard of measure or measurement.
- natural food — Natural food is food which has not been processed much and has not had artificial ingredients added to it.
- natural-born — native-born.
- nature lover — someone who likes plants, birds and other natural phenomena
- naturopathic — (alternative medicine) Of or pertaining to naturopathy or to naturopaths.
- naughty word — a word that is considered to be rude
- nauseousness — affected with nausea; nauseated: to feel nauseous.
- nebulization — to reduce to fine spray; atomize.
- necrophagous — That eats dead or decaying animal flesh.
- neo-freudian — of or relating to a group of psychoanalytic thinkers whose modifications of Freudian analytic theory place increased emphasis on ego functions and interpersonal relationships.
- neofeudalism — A theorized contemporary rebirth of policies of governance, economy and public life reminiscent of those present in many feudal societies.
- neurilemmoma — A schwannoma.
- neuroanatomy — the branch of anatomy dealing with the nervous system.
- neurofibroma — a benign neoplasm composed of the fibrous elements of a nerve.
- neurohumoral — of or pertaining to a neurohumour
- neuroimaging — (neurology) The generation of images showing brain activity (or activity in other parts of the nervous system). (from 20th c.).
- neurological — the science of the nerves and the nervous system, especially of the diseases affecting them.
- neuronopathy — A form of polyneuropathy caused by destruction of neurons.
- neuropathies — Plural form of neuropathy.
- neuropathist — a specialist in treating diseases of the nervous system; a neurologist