11-letter words containing d, a, u
- minute hand — the hand that indicates the minutes on a clock or watch, usually longer than the hour hand.
- misadjusted — to change (something) so that it fits, corresponds, or conforms; adapt; accommodate: to adjust expenses to income.
- miseducated — Simple past tense and past participle of miseducate.
- misfeatured — Having ugly or misshapen features.
- misguidance — to guide wrongly; misdirect.
- mispersuade — to persuade wrongly
- 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
- modulations — Plural form of modulation.
- 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.
- monday club — (in Britain) a club made up of right-wing Conservatives who originally met together for lunch on Monday: founded in 1961
- 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.
- muck-up day — the last day of school before the annual examinations, marked by practical jokes and other student pranks
- 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.
- mule-headed — stubborn; intractable.
- multi-faced — having a specified kind of face or number of faces (usually used in combination): a sweet-faced child; the two-faced god.
- multi-nodal — pertaining to or of the nature of a node.
- multibladed — having multiple blades
- multicasted — Transmitted in the form of a multicast.
- multicoated — having more than one coating of a substance
- multidomain — of, relating to, or affecting several domains
- multiheaded — having more than one head
- multimanned — (esp of a spaceship, space station, etc) manned by two or more people
- multistrand — Composed of multiple strands.
- multitasked — Simple past tense and past participle of multitask.
- multivalued — possessing several or many values.
- mundaneness — common; ordinary; banal; unimaginative.
- mundanities — the condition or quality of being mundane; mundaneness.
- murder case — a murder that is being investigated by the police, or tried in court
- mushyheaded — inadequately thought out: mushyheaded ideas.
- music drama — an opera having more or less continuous musical and dramatic activity without arias, recitatives, or ensembles.
- music stand — a pedestal or rack designed to hold a score or sheet of music in position for reading.
- mustachioed — a mustache.
- mustard gas — an oily liquid, C 4 H 8 Cl 2 S, used as a chemical-warfare gas, blistering the skin and damaging the lungs, often causing blindness and death: introduced by the Germans in World War I.
- 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.
- mutual fund — an investment company that issues shares continuously and is obligated to repurchase them from shareholders on demand.
- naked lunch — a novel (1959–66) by William S. Burroughs.
- namaqualand — an arid coastal region in the S part of Namibia, extending into the Cape of Good Hope province of the Republic of South Africa, divided by the Orange River into two regions, one in Namibia (Great Namaqualand) the other in South Africa (Little Namaqualand) inhabited by the Nama.
- naturalised — (British) Simple past tense and past participle of naturalise.
- naturalized — Simple past tense and past participle of naturalize.
- near-nudity — the state of not wearing many clothes
- nematodirus — any parasitic nematode worm of the genus Nematodirus