11-letter words containing a, r, m, o, u
- media group — an association of companies involved with the means of mass communication
- megalosaurs — Plural form of megalosaur.
- memorandums — Plural form of memorandum.
- mensuration — the branch of geometry that deals with the measurement of length, area, or volume.
- 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.
- metrosexual — a heterosexual, usually urban male who pays much attention to his personal appearance and cultivates an upscale lifestyle.
- microfaunal — Of, or relating to, a microfauna.
- microquasar — (astronomy, stars) A high-energy binary star system that includes black hole or neutron star and which resembles a quasar.
- microtrauma — (medicine) Any small, insignificant injury, but especially one of a series (such as suffered by athletes) that can lead to major injury.
- mill around — walk about
- modularised — to form or organize into modules, as for flexibility.
- modularized — having been made modular or relating to the use of modular concepts or forms
- molecularly — of or relating to or caused by molecules: molecular structure.
- molly-guard — /mol'ee-gard/ [University of Illinois] A shield to prevent tripping of some Big Red Switch by clumsy or ignorant hands. Originally used of the plexiglass covers improvised for the BRS on an IBM 4341 after a programmer's toddler daughter (named Molly) frobbed it twice in one day. Later generalised to covers over stop/reset switches on disk drives and networking equipment.
- monocarpous — having a gynoecium that forms only a single ovary.
- monocularly — In a monocular manner.
- mononuclear — Also, mononucleate. Cell Biology. having only one nucleus.
- moorbuzzard — a bird of prey known as the marsh harrier, Circus Aeruginosus
- mope around — If you mope around or mope about a place, you wander around there not doing anything, looking and feeling unhappy.
- moratoriums — Plural form of moratorium.
- mount guard — If you mount guard or if you mount a guard, you organize people to watch or protect a person or place.
- mount pearl — a town in Newfoundland, in E Canada, on the SE part of the island, S of St. John's.
- mount tabor — a mountain in N Israel, near Nazareth: traditionally regarded as the mountain where the Transfiguration took place. Height: 588 m (1929 ft)
- mountaineer — A person who takes part in mountaineering.
- mouth guard — protective shield for teeth
- mouth organ — harmonica (def 1).
- move around — be mobile, active
- muck around — moist farmyard dung, decaying vegetable matter, etc.; manure.
- mucociliary — Of or pertaining to the action of cilia in transporting mucus.
- multiauthor — having numerous or many authors
- multicarbon — having several carbon atoms
- multifactor — Of or pertaining to more than one factor.
- multifloral — Of or relating to more than one (variety of) flower.
- multiformat — Accessible in more than one format.
- multiparous — of or relating to a multipara.
- munoz marin — Luis [lwees] /lwis/ (Show IPA), 1898–1980, Puerto Rican political leader: governor 1948–64.
- mural crown — a golden crown formed with indentations to resemble a battlement, bestowed by the ancient Romans on the soldiers who first mounted the wall of a besieged place and there lodged a standard.
- murmuration — an act or instance of murmuring.
- muscatorium — a flabellum or fan, esp the ceremonial fan carried before the pope
- museography — The systematic description of objects in museums.
- mustard oil — oil expressed from the seed of mustard, used chiefly in making soap.
- mustard pot — a small pot, of glass, silver, etc, placed on the table to serve mustard
- mutteration — the act of muttering
- naupliiform — shaped like a nauplius larva
- nematodirus — any parasitic nematode worm of the genus Nematodirus
- neurocytoma — A nervous system tumor primarily derived from nervous tissue, in contrast to the gliomas.
- nonargument — a fallacious or flawed argument
- nonruminant — not a ruminant
- normanesque — in the style of Norman architecture, a variety of Romanesque architecture.