11-letter words containing a, r, u, m
- measure out — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
- measureable — Misspelling of measurable.
- measureless — too large or great to be measured; unlimited; immeasurable: a measureless distance; measureless contempt.
- measurement — the act of measuring.
- media group — an association of companies involved with the means of mass communication
- medium rare — lightly cooked, so as to be warm but still red in the middle
- meerschaums — Plural form of meerschaum.
- megalosaurs — Plural form of megalosaur.
- megatherium — An extinct giant ground sloth of the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs in America, reaching a height of 16 feet (5 m) when standing erect.
- memorandums — Plural form of memorandum.
- menstrually — In a menstrual manner; in terms of the menses.
- 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.
- mercurially — In a mercurial manner.
- mercury arc — a bluish-green electric arc that has passed through a mercury-vapor cathode.
- 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.
- metaculture — All the universal concepts that are present in all cultures.
- metallurgic — the technique or science of working or heating metals so as to give them certain desired shapes or properties.
- 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.
- micturating — Present participle of micturate.
- mill around — walk about
- miniaturing — Present participle of miniature.
- miniaturise — (British) alternative spelling of miniaturize.
- miniaturism — Miniature size; tendency towards miniature size.
- miniaturist — an artist whose specialty is small, discrete works.
- miniaturize — to make in extremely small size in order to keep volume or weight to a minimum: to miniaturize electronic equipment.
- minute mark — the symbol ′ used for minutes of arc and linear feet
- misfeatured — Having ugly or misshapen features.
- 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.
- mitrailleur — (UK, military, obsolete) rapid-fire team-served musket or rifle.
- 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.