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11-letter words containing d, a, m, o, u

  • 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.
  • mount guard — If you mount guard or if you mount a guard, you organize people to watch or protect a person or place.
  • mouse ahead — The point-and-click analog of "type ahead". To manipulate a computer's pointing device (almost always a mouse in this usage, but not necessarily) and its selection or command buttons before a computer program is ready to accept such input, in anticipation of the program accepting the input. Handling this properly is rare, but it can help make a WIMP environment much more usable, assuming the users are familiar with the behaviour of the user interface.
  • mouth guard — protective shield for teeth
  • move around — be mobile, active
  • 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.
  • multicoated — having more than one coating of a substance
  • multidomain — of, relating to, or affecting several domains
  • mustachioed — a mustache.
  • 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
  • muttonheads — Plural form of muttonhead.
  • nematodirus — any parasitic nematode worm of the genus Nematodirus
  • non-dualism — the state of being dual or consisting of two parts; division into two.
  • nonhumanoid — Not humanoid.
  • nostradamus — (Michel de Nostredame) 1503–66, French astrologer.
  • odd man out — a method of selecting or eliminating a person from a group, as by matching coins, especially in preparation for playing a game.
  • ombudswoman — a woman employed to investigate complaints against government or institutional officials, employers, etc.
  • ophidiarium — an enclosure for snakes, adapted to their normal living conditions
  • outdoorsman — a person devoted to outdoor sports and recreational activities, as hiking, hunting, fishing, or camping.
  • pandemonium — wild uproar or unrestrained disorder; tumult or chaos.
  • parlourmaid — In former times, a parlourmaid was a female servant in a private house whose job involved serving people at table.
  • parodontium — periodontium.
  • pneumathode — a band or pore of aerating tissue, esp along the stipes of ferns
  • pompadoured — styled in a pompadour
  • proctodaeum — proctodeum.
  • promulgated — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
  • pseudoedema — effusion of serous fluid into the interstices of cells in tissue spaces or into body cavities.
  • pseudomonad — any of various bacteria of the genus Pseudomonas
  • pseudomonas — any of several rod-shaped bacteria of the genus Pseudomonas, certain species of which are pathogenic for plants and animals.
  • quantum dot — (physics)   (Or "single-electron transistor") A location capable of containing a single electrical charge; i.e., a single electron of Coulomb charge. Physically, quantum dots are nanometer-size semiconductor structures in which the presence or absence of a quantum electron can be used to store information. See also: quantum cell, quantum cell wire, quantum-dot cellular automata.
  • quark model — a scheme that explains the quantum numbers of all the baryons and mesons by assuming that baryons are composed of three quarks and mesons of a quark and an antiquark, with different combinations of quark and antiquark flavors giving different sets of quantum numbers.
  • radiocesium — cesium 137.
  • radiosodium — the radioactive isotope of sodium having an atomic mass of 24 and a half-life of 14.9 hours: used as a tracer in biochemistry.
  • saucer dome — a dome having the form of a segment of a sphere, with the center well below the springing line; a shallow dome, as in Roman or Byzantine architecture.
  • staminodium — a sterile or abortive stamen.
  • subdominant — Music. the fourth tone of a diatonic scale, next below the dominant.
  • sulfonamide — sulfa drug.
  • tolbutamide — a white crystalline substance, C 12 H 18 N 2 O 3 S, used to augment insulin secretion in the treatment of diabetes mellitus.
  • tollund man — the perfectly preserved remains of an Iron Age man, hanged and thrown into a bog at Tollund, in Jutland, Denmark: discovered in 1950.
  • ultramodern — very advanced in ideas, design, or techniques.
  • un-enamored — to fill or inflame with love (usually used in the passive and followed by of or sometimes with): to be enamored of a certain lady; a brilliant woman with whom he became enamored.
  • unamortized — Finance. to liquidate or extinguish (a mortgage, debt, or other obligation), especially by periodic payments to the creditor or to a sinking fund. to write off a cost of (an asset) gradually.
  • unautomated — to apply the principles of automation to (a mechanical process, industry, office, etc.).
  • uncommanded — to direct with specific authority or prerogative; order: The captain commanded his men to attack.
  • uncompacted — not compacted
  • uncompanied — unaccompanied
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